Via Ben Smith:
Thrown off his game by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright uproar, Barack Obama’s strongest answer to Hillary Rodham Clinton is one he won’t give: Senator, do you really want to get in a contest with me over who has more unsavory personal associations?
Actually, as a Democrat, I've been constantly asked to defend Hillary (and have) over why she continues to associate with her husband. Interestingly, the question almost always comes from women, and from both the right and left. One could easily paraphrase the above:
Senator Clinton, you've criticized Senator Obama for sticking with his controversial pastor for 20 years. You say you'd have left the church long ago. Yet you've stuck with your husband for 32 years. Many women say they'd have left that church long ago.
It is interesting how Team Clinton has no problem dredging up any and all the dirt they can on Obama's personal relationships, yet Team Obama never touches Bill's or Hillary's. Same goes for the media. Lots of questions about Rev. Wright, not a whole lot about Monica. And spare me the "Monica is old news." The Clintons invited Rev. Wright to the White House in the thick of the Monica scandal. Obama went to that event at Ayers' home in 1995, three years before Monica. So again, spare me the Monica is old news but Ayers and Wright are new news. There's a double standard for going after the personal relationships of Obama and Clinton - the media has the double standard, and the candidates have it as well. Hillary's people (abetted by ABC and the rest of the media) have no problem trafficking in filth. Obama's, God bless them, avoid it like the plague.
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