Negative Attacks

Pick a Meme, Any Meme

Steve Benen | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics


Steve Benen

The GOP keeps experimenting with new memes to define Obama, but not only are they not sticking, some even contradict each other.

John McCain Should Probably Stop Calling Barack Obama "Dr. No"

Chris Kelly | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics


Chris Kelly

Saying "Dr. No" over and over and over and over is either a brilliant subliminal appeal to racists who enjoy mid-century genre fiction or it's a really, really tone deaf thing to call a man with a mixed-race background.

Republicans' Bizarre Rediscovery of Osama bin Laden

Steve Benen | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics


Steve Benen

Now that it's time for the general election, and the right is desperate to smear Barack Obama, the GOP has rediscovered OBL.

The Big Bang of Attack Ads

Steve Cone | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics


Steve Cone

In memory of its creator, I think it is high time we understand that the 1964 Daisy ad was not about being negative but rather truthful.

Jason Linkins

Dick Durbin: People Sliming Michelle Obama Deserve The "Hottest Ring In Hell"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


Following hard on the heels of this morning's L.A. Times article, warning of further forthcoming attacks on Michelle Obama, and Maureen Dowd's NYT col...

The New York Times' Political Suicide Pact

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics


Glenn Hurowitz

The Times editorial board's attitude ignores the evidence that negative, fear-inducing advertising actually has far better civic effects than positive, enthusiastic ads.

A Paroxysm of Voterly Rage

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics


Jeff Dorchen

I apologize for the following. It was written in anger brought on by listening to All Things Considered for three whole minutes, a mistake I shall no...

Obama Accuses Hillary Of Deception

Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics


Eager to shift the narrative after a difficult week, Sen. Barack Obama's campaign sharply criticized the tactics of his rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Cli...

Reading The Pictures: TIME's Halperin Pictures Obama As Dirty Rat

Michael Shaw | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media


Michael Shaw

2008-03-10-halper_obama_rat_pack.jpgAs Obama moves to respond to the "kitchen sink," Mark Halperin at Time launched a stunningly pejorative visual preemptive strike.

Pelosi Tells Obama, Clinton: Quit Yer Bickering

San Francisco Chronicle | Zachary Coile | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged both leading Democratic presidential candidates to cease their bickering, warning that the escalating rhetoric could ...

Has Obama Lost His Mojo?

Bill Katovsky | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics


Bill Katovsky

Battered and attacked for so many years by the right, Hillary has adopted many of their same tactics.

Replacing White Men in Suits With White Woman in Suits???

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics


Karen Kisslinger

I'm sad that our first woman candidate for President has felt it necessary to practice "old boy" politics at its meanest and slimiest, and I'm sure I haven't "seen anything yet"; I know it will get worse.

McCain Attacked In Third-Party Ads

Election Central | Greg Sargent | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics


Election Central has obtained a copy of a new anti-McCain ad sponsored by the group Campaign To Defend America: The Campaign to Defend America -- whi...

Obama Skin Tone Darker In Clinton Ad?

America Blog | John Ararvosis | Posted 03.04.2008 | Politics


Via America Blog: I went and got the original footage from the Clinton ad, and then compared it to 3 different video clips of the same debate from 3 ...

Creator Of Mystery Site HillaryIs44 Revealed

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics


I wrote in December about a mysterious pro-Clinton, anti-Obama website called HillaryIs44, a site that floated sharply negative information about Obam...

Clinton Camp: When Obama Attacks, Media Applaud

The Page | Mark Halperin | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics


Obviously angry communications director on conference call with reporters says: "I think it is true that every time the Obama campaign in this campai...

Clinton's Support Slips In Latest New York Poll

SurveyUSA | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics


SurveyUSA has tracked the job approval rating of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton 35 times between May 2005 and February 2008. At no time had the percen...

Clinton Aides Split On Whether To Attack Obama

NY Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 02.21.2008 | Politics


When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Senator Barack Obama at a one-on-one debate in Austin on Thursday night, one of her final opportunities to c...

Clinton: Obama "Right Of" Bush On Housing Crisis

Huffington Post | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics


Hillary Clinton's camp has released this statement, after Obama opened his trip to Texas with a critique of Hillary's housing crisis solution: "When ...

Obama's Secret Speechwriter

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

If politics is sports, then Obama's rhetoric is like a filthy fastball that opposing hitters haven't managed to hit yet. He keeps running it out there until someone connects off of him.

Kennedy "Shocked" At "Distortion" In Clinton Health Care Ad

Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics


The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama put out big gun backer Sen. Ted Kennedy and the Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle to respond to the negative Cli...

Clinton, Obama Negative Attacks On Display As March 4 Approaches

Huffington Post | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics


As the calendar approaches March 4th, the race for the Democratic candidate is taking an increasingly negative turn. This week Hillary launched the f...

Clinton Camp Says Obama Is Now "The Black Candidate"

Associated Press | Posted 01.27.2008 | Politics


Following Barack Obama's primary win in South Carolina Saturday, members of the Clinton campaign continued to inject issues of race in the contest. F...

Bill Clinton: Hillary-McCain Would Be "Most Civilized Election In American History"

NY Times' The Caucus | Katherine Seelye | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics


Bill Clinton just staged a passionate defense of his wife here, after a voter asked how Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton could unite this country when i...

Clinton's Campaign Sees Value In Bill's Attack Role

NY Times | Patrick Healy | Posted 01.25.2008 | Politics


Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they have concluded that Bill Clinton's aggressive politicking against Senator Barack Obama is resonati...


 

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