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DEL.ICIO.USObama targets jaded young people in Georgia, and Clinton campaign threatens fibbers with detention
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Barack Obama campaign in Georgia says it’s got a second TV ad up now, this one heavily geared toward moving young people, who historically have been reluctant to show up at the polls.
Take a look here. As before, the campaign offers no figures on the size of the buy, or the cities in which it’s being shown. So impact is speculative.
We’ve got a call into the Clinton campaign to see if they’ve got any ads up to match, but have not heard back.
However, the Clinton side did put out a list of “rapid responders” in each state — assigned the task of rebutting scurrilous people who misrepresent what the New York senator has said or done.
In Georgia, members of the Clinton truth patrol are:
— Brooke Jackson Edmond, of the Maynard Jackson Atlantans;
— Liane Levetan, the former DeKalb County CEO;
— Elaine Lucas, Macon city council member;
— and Michael Thurmond, the state labor commissioner.
Says Thurmond in the press release:
“Facts are stubborn things, and we will insist that Senator Clinton’s opponents be held accountable if they manipulate her statements or her record.”
So you John Edwards people better behave yourselves.
Comments
By Little One
January 28, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this
Unfortunately, (and Brooke is REALLY nice) none of these people have any sway with anybody…
By Backlash
January 28, 2008 9:22 PM | Link to this
How can you trust a women married to a sociopath like Bill Clinton.
Clinton accused of 1978 hotel rape
This past sexual conduct after a former campaign worker alleged that he raped her 21 years ago.
Juanita Broaddrick, who now runs a nursing-home business in Arkansas, told the Wall Street Journal that Mr Clinton raped her in the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock in 1978, when he was the state attorney-general.
Mr Clinton persuaded Mrs Broaddrick to have coffee with him in her hotel room during a conference of nursing home administrators in 1978. She alleges that he then forced her on to the bed, where he held her down, bit her lips and raped her.
When it was over, Mrs Broaddrick claims, Mr Clinton told her that she should not worry because he was sterile due to a bout of childhood mumps.
“This is the part that always stays in my mind - the way he put on his sunglasses. Then he looked at me and said ‘You better put some ice on that’. Then he left.”
She was found in a state of shock. In reported speech, she is said to have alleged that Mrs Broaddrick’s lips were discoloured and swollen to twice their normal size and the crotch of her tights was torn.
She just stayed on the bed and kept repeating ‘I can’t believe what happened’,”
1994 January 20 Mrs Broaddrick finally gave NBC television what is said to be her first media interview confirming the original rape allegation.
Scheduled for airing on January 29, the NBC interview has not yet been broadcast. NBC has described it as a “work in progress” - leading to rumours that the White House had put pressure on the network to withhold the story.
The allegations came at a time when many of those involved in the past year’s presidential crisis - including Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers.
Mrs Broaddrick in 1991 she was called out of a meeting to discover Mr Clinton waiting for her.
He told her he wished to apologise and asked what he could do to make things up to her. Mrs Broaddrick said he could do nothing, and walked away.
By Backlash
January 28, 2008 9:45 PM | Link to this
How can you trust a women married to a sociopath like Bill Clinton.
Clinton accused of 1978 hotel rape
This past sexual conduct after a former campaign worker alleged that he raped her 21 years ago.
Juanita Broaddrick, who now runs a nursing-home business in Arkansas, told the Wall Street Journal that Mr Clinton raped her in the Camelot Hotel in Little Rock in 1978, when he was the state attorney-general.
Mr Clinton persuaded Mrs Broaddrick to have coffee with him in her hotel room during a conference of nursing home administrators in 1978. She alleges that he then forced her on to the bed, where he held her down, bit her lips and raped her.
When it was over, Mrs Broaddrick claims, Mr Clinton told her that she should not worry because he was sterile due to a bout of childhood mumps.
“This is the part that always stays in my mind - the way he put on his sunglasses. Then he looked at me and said ‘You better put some ice on that’. Then he left.”
She was found in a state of shock. In reported speech, she is said to have alleged that Mrs Broaddrick’s lips were discoloured and swollen to twice their normal size and the crotch of her tights was torn.
She just stayed on the bed and kept repeating ‘I can’t believe what happened’,”
1994 January 20 Mrs Broaddrick finally gave NBC television what is said to be her first media interview confirming the original rape allegation.
Scheduled for airing on January 29, the NBC interview has not yet been broadcast. NBC has described it as a “work in progress” - leading to rumours that the White House had put pressure on the network to withhold the story.
The allegations came at a time when many of those involved in the past year’s presidential crisis - including Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp, Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers.
Mrs Broaddrick in 1991 she was called out of a meeting to discover Mr Clinton waiting for her.
He told her he wished to apologise and asked what he could do to make things up to her. Mrs Broaddrick said he could do nothing, and walked away.
By bfd
January 28, 2008 10:51 PM | Link to this
Wow. Bill Clinton is a hound. Who knew?
Thanks for the news flash.
By Jay
January 29, 2008 6:54 AM | Link to this
Hang on a tick - didn’t Obama just set up a truth squad in California to deal with the tactics of the Clintons?
Now Hillary is pulling the same thing in Georgia? I hope for her sake that everything the truth squad says is truthful cos the people of Georgia will find out if it’s not.
By Jay
January 29, 2008 7:00 AM | Link to this
Oh - and just to be preemptive of any possible deception or ploy planned - fliers saying untrue things about Obama were distributed in both South Carolina and New Hampshire. If somehow a flier appears in Georgia saying untrue things about Hillary and Obama gets accused for it - don’t fall for it - Obama would NEVER do that. Maybe I’m paranoid, but there has been some pretty sneaky stuff going on - so just be aware - not Obama’s MO.
By Bitter EX democrackkk
January 29, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
So GLAD I found political enlightenment away from those RACIST democrackkks … They wouldnt know the TRUTH if it bit them in the a**!