Sunday Dec 16, 2007

Practical politics

Posted by Ira Sharkansky

Among the lessons in practical politics from the run-up to the Iowa caucuses are two examples on how to besmirch your major rival, while verging over the borders of the political correct, then apologize, and get your besmirch even more attention on national and state-wide media.
 
A key aide of Hillary Clinton got some space in the Washington Post, and then more widely, when he asked if it would not be likely that someone will ask questions about Barak Obama's youthful experimentation with drugs, and perhaps giving drugs to friends, or maybe even selling them.
 
A day later, the aide resigned, Hillary apologized and disowned the comments, but there they were again in the media. Insofar as the wife of the dishonored aide is the former Governor of New Hampshire and a candidate for the US Senate, and the Obama-Clinton competition will have another round in that state, it is fair to assume that we have not heard the last of this.

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