When Obama Attacks

Courtesy Donklephant  Fri, 03/07/2008 - 8:24am

David Brooks writes about an issue I’ve been contemplating. If Barack Obama ends up “getting tough” on Hillary Clinton, doesn’t he lose his most compelling selling point – namely that he’s a new kind of politician?

Brooks looks at what an attacking Obama would mean :

And the Clinton people will draw them every step of the way.

Clinton can’t compete on personality, but a knife fight is her only real hope of victory. She has nothing to...



 

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