The Daily Background
| Hillary’s new strategy: But Barack is far too liberal to be president!
by Arlen Parsa
Get this: Hillary’s campaign has decided to attack Obama for being far too liberal to be president:
Hillary’s aides point to Obama’s extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with “left-wing” intellectuals in Chicago’s Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants’ rights as subjects for examination.
Along the same lines, ABC reported that Clinton aides gave the network various examples, of Obama’s controversial stands. The aides cited Obama’s past assertion that he would support ending mandatory minimum sentences for federal crimes, pointing to a 2004 statement at an NAACP-sponsored debate: “Mandatory minimums take too much discretion away from judges.”
You can watch that ABC report in which the Clinton camp tries to peddle the “Obama is too liberal” oppo here.
It’s clear from the entrance and exit polls in Iowa that among those voters who describe themselves as “very liberal,” and “somewhat liberal,” Obama beat both Clinton and Edwards by wide margins (especially among the former).
[…] I’d highly recommend the documentary Flight From Death, which is about this very subject. Fear makes people conservative. Simple as that. Karl Rove knew it, and now Hillary is trying to use it to further her own candidacy as she attacks Obama for being too liberal. […]