Bad angle of attack for Obama.

Why not use Ferraro's "if he wasn't Black" quote instead?

You should correct your post. You said the following:

the Hillary campaign points out that Obama already said he accepted Hillary's claim that she wasn't behind the photo

That obviously is not a true statement by the clintons' campaign as indicated by your block quote. He said he took her at her word and we all know how much her word is worth. Zippo. The clintons lie all the time so taking them at their word is meaningless. It's not accepting or ratifying the words, its basically saying they said what they said, so what.

There's no contradiction there!

He said he believed she didn't have personal knowledge of it. He never said he believed it didn't come from her campaign.

Clinton is responsible for the actions of her campaign, just as Obama is responsible when one of his advisers calls his opponent a monster, even if neither were done at the candidate's direction or with his/her knowledge.

You just knew that before this thing was over, someone would end up citing Drudge.

"I'm sure Hillary herself had no knowledge of the Somali photo being circulated by her own staff. There are now two accounts, namely Insight Magazine, and Drudge Report, that says that the Clinton staffer circulated the photo to them."

Two staff were fired in Iowa for spreading muslims rumors.

Another staff was caught in November sending stuff to Drudge.

These are on record.

That should have been a warning flag to the supposedly uninformed clinton.

Clinton either didn't exercise leadership that muslim-smears were not going to be allowed, or she implicitly encouraged it or her surrogates did (Penn etc)

Either way, it's her fault.

I'm glad he's on the offense, but he needs a new narrative line to pummel her on. He needs to stop playing defense and fundamentally re-align the game.

Hillary Clinton . . . Ready on day one . . . in the year 2087 . . .

Barak Obama will chime in five to seven days later and slightly to the right . . .

Dear (insert the deity of your choice), I wish there were a living Democrat running in the race . . .

McCain/Clinton '08

Drudge never stated the Clinton campaign sent him the email photo! Only that the email had been "circulated".

Correct. Drudge seemed to suggest that the photo had been sent by someone in the Clinton camapign to someone else in the media, as part of a complaint about unfair soft media treatment of Obama, and that it came into his (Drudge's) hands through this indirect path.

As far as I know, while denying personal knowledge of the photo, Clinton has never denied that someone in her campaign distributed the photo. Once again, they have a chance to deny the campaign is responsible for distributing the photo. But once again, they are simply retreating to the assertion that Clinton personally had no knowledge of it.

Another genius move by Obama. Let's again make a big to-do about the damn Somali picture and get it plastered all over the media for another two news cycles, thus magnifying its effect a thousand-fold. There's nothing wrong with a picture of Obama dressed in Somali clothes. Period. By loudly objecting to its distribution, Obama is simply feeding the impression that there's something in it, however vague and ill-defined, that should concern people. Let the mad dogs of America politics snarl and foam over it if that's what they crave, but for heaven's sake don't set out more red meat for them.

Wow, Obama campaigns sources of news ... Drudge. What's next, take words from O'Reilly's talking points?

He takes her at her word?

AT HER WORD?

Isn't that the same thing she said about him being a Muslim? Isn't that what had everyone freaking out just a few days ago? Because taking someone at their word is equivalent to a big wink-wink, nudge-nudge.

AT HER WORD?

He must be stopped. He should drop out. He's tearing the party apart!

Another staff was caught in October sending stuff to Drudge.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/us/politics/22drudge.html?ref=washington

Aimey, you are wrong:

"Barack Obama, right, is dressed as a Somali elder by Sheikh Mahmed Hassan, left, during his visit to Wajir in northeastern Kenya, near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia. Photograph: AP"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/25/barackobama.hillaryclinton

He's near the border, but in Kenya.

Furthermore ....

Her non-denials on the photo just build up a larger picture of either

1) her not being able to control her own team

2) her being dishonest and secretly orchestrating these smears

Which is it?

Any intrepid reporters wish to ask her the question??

I don't think this shows very good Commander in

More Clinton Drudge leaks:

"On Tuesday, Drudge’s lead story was sourced to a “top Clinton insider” and claimed that Clinton’s team had warned CNN’s Wolf Blitzer not to gang up on Clinton in the upcoming debate."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/6895.html

I see a case building here.

Can we get email archives data? Or is this going to be like Bush and the RNC "losing" email archives? Very similar spirit of secrecy here.

Excuse me, but Hillary Clinton's campaign made the blanket statement that no one on her entire campaign team spoke with the Canadians about Nafta, and yet when asked about the Muslim photo, the Clinton campaign said, "Hey we can't ask each of our 703 staffers about this!"

And to the racist -- yes, racist -- above, who said that Ferraro was speaking the truth because Obama would be "mini-Edwards" were he not black, I've got news for you, AlmeyMay.

Edwards, talented speaker though he may be, does not hold a candle to Obama in terms of either brain power or speech-writing or speech-delivery skills. Obama has generated more fresh speeches and electric moments than any orator since at least RFK. Edwards is at the top tier of good political orators; Obama is in a different league altogether. And when Edwards ran in 2004, Edwards had fewer years of political experience than Obama, yet hardly anyone said Edwards was showing any "audacity" by running.

So the claim that Obama -- with13 years in elective office -- and a guy who gave the most memorable keynote address in modern times and a guy who helped six Dems win Senate seats from Repubs in red and purple states is "audacious" for running against Hillary who got her start by being inserted as Senator into a state where she never lived thanks to marrying well is nothing more than a claim that Obama's uppity. White women, according to you, can start their careers as US Senator based on a marriage in a state they've never lived in, but a black guy who paid his dues by starting politics at the gritty local level has no business running is, according to you, uppity. Can the crap, AlmeyMay.

Why is it every time Obama seems to be on the ropes (oh excuse me is that racist?) we here about how racist Hillary is? Is this the same "old okie doke" or something in the new way of politics? Really people Hillary is not a racist. And just like Obama she wants to win. It would appear he'll "do anything, say anything" to win.

"Edwards, talented speaker though he may be, does not hold a candle to Obama in terms of either brain power or speech-writing or speech-delivery skills. Obama has generated more fresh speeches and electric moments than any orator since at least RFK. Edwards is at the top tier of good political orators; Obama is in a different league altogether. And when Edwards ran in 2004, Edwards had fewer years of political experience than Obama, yet hardly anyone said Edwards was showing any "audacity" by running."

I don't think this is fair to Edwards. Obama is certainly extremely talented (smart, and charismatic, and visionary -- usually you dont get all three). I think Edward's message was just not visionary enough this time around, although I agreed with it.

Edward's more hopeful message in 2004 was better. Indeed, Axelrod worked for him at the time. This time it was more negative. He'd make a great VP though and wouldn't hesitate to attack the other side.

Obama/Edwards 2008!!