Memo Written By Axelrod Shows Obama Agreed To Character Assassination Tactics Against Hillary In 2008 Dem Primary Despite Campaign Promises…
Even his ”Change We Can Believe In” slogan was meant as a slur against her.
(Telegraph) — Barack Obama agreed to using character assassination tactics against Hillary Clinton during his 2008 presidential campaign, White House memos show, despite a pledge to steer away from negative electioneering.
“Change We Can Believe In”, a key Obama campaign slogan, was meant as a slur against Mrs Clinton’s personality, intended to highlight how she “couldn’t be trusted or believed in when it comes to change”, according to a memo seen by America’s New Yorker magazine.
“She’s driven by political calculation not conviction, regularly backing away and shifting positions … She embodies trench warfare vs Republicans, and is consumed with beating them rather than unifying the country and building consensus to get things done. She prides herself on working the system, not changing it,” the October 2007 memo added.
The memo was written by David Axelrod, a political adviser, as Obama’s nomination campaign stalled against Hillary Clinton during the height of the 2008 Democratic nomination process.
Rather than fight out their differences in policy, Mr Axelrod told Obama that the only way to secure a defeat was to attack Mrs Clinton’s character. The goal was to paint Obama as the “authentic ‘remedy’ to what ails Washington and stands in the way of progress” and to discredit his main rival in the process.
“It may not be her fault, but Americans have deeply divided feelings about Hillary Clinton, threatening a Democratic victory in 2008 and insuring another four years of the bitter political battles that have plagued Washington for the last two decades and stymied progress,” the memo added.
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Yet Hillary went along with them. Always an enabler, the cause is the thing, not principle.
That’s just fine and acceptable behavior in Obama’s World.
Of course, dare to investgate his personal life, his “character” and you are a RACIST!
Sounds like they haven’t changed their strategy for this election.
“”She’s driven by political calculation not conviction, regularly backing away and shifting positions … She embodies trench warfare vs Republicans, and is consumed with beating them rather than unifying the country and building consensus to get things done. She prides herself on working the system, not changing it,” the October 2007 memo added.”
Yup- sounds like Princess Soetero, all right.
Who knew axeltoad was a soothsayer?
Gee. I am shocked. Just shocked that a candidate would turn like that on a fellow party member. In all seriousness, that was how 0bama was his first election – by disqualifying the signatures on his party opponents. As far as his promises, he also said he would only use public funding…
And what did anyone expect to see, read or hear about an Alinsky acolyte? Straight from the book ‘rules for radicals’.
Newt 2012! The fight of and for our lives…
This is news?
This is why we need more that voter id law…. time to change it to where only productive citizens have the privilege to vote – I didnt say right… its a privilege and we need law to prevent the leeches from voting themselves (thru dimrats politicians) more benefits on the backs of taxpayers
Axelrod and Jarrett, Chicago’s finest, have metastasized out of control.
“Barry:
We have to lie about Hillary if you want to get elected. Also, tell more lies about you being the only one to end divisiveness and bring unity to the country. They’re eating that crap up.
David
p.s. I’ve let our friends at CBS and NBC in on our next move. They’re out ahead of us on it. Optics baby, optics
p.s.s. Rev. Wright called. Those problem aquaintances of yours have been taken care of and Bill says hi.”
In other words, Team Obama succeeded in painting Hillary as “establishment” in 2008. Talk about hypocrisy– all Obama has done SINCE 2008 is amplify every damned thing that was in place when he took office– centralized government economic policy (started by the Bush Adm), starting “wars” halfway around the world (ditto), and Big Brother (now known as Big Sis) operations begun under the dubiously named “Patriot Act” program (Bush Adm). In other words, the OPPOSITE of the “change” he campaigned on. The only “change” he has accomplished is changing the size and scope of what was in effect when he set foot in the Oval Office for the first time. FOR THE WORSE.
Cannot think of a more deserving bunch of cannibals. Dine hearty fellow travelers.
What kind of campaign manager was Axelrod not to have destroyed these memos immediately after they were sent?
Not that I care.
Just like a pack of hyenas; quick to turn on each other when individual survival is at hand. But not to worry about “Mommie Dearest Hill”, old Jew robber, George Soreass, was Johnny On the Spot with a big wad of stolen money and job offer for Hill to bow out.
Expect the 2012 election to be even dirter – this satanic group will stop at nothing to stay in power, even murder. Lock and load, it’s gonna get messy.
Would it be too much trouble for them to post this memo?
She’s his puppet now. Hilary owned! NOW cheers!
Kind of makes you wonder…. What If Hilary WON in 08… maybe we’d be in a better place than we are now.
I still think that the little Water Shrew will never turn on this administration. If she is ever questioned, she will simply say, “I do not recall”
And yet he trust her as SOS? No scruples among any of them.
It obviously didn’t bother Hitlery enough to put aside her ambition to grovel and think she could be an effective SoS.
/sarc
At least we now know what the slogan meant. It has never been explained.
I don’t think we would be in better shape if Hil had won in 2008. She has the same ‘Destroy the Country’ playbook as O.
Obama and his fellow fiends in low very low places
“She’s driven by political calculation not conviction, regularly backing away and shifting positions…”
Well, this is true.
Tweedledee and Tweeledum.
There both puppets of the same person.
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2881
The Shadow Party By: Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, August 29, 2006
FP: So what exactly is the Shadow Party?
Poe: The Shadow Party is the real power driving the Democrat machine. It is a network of radicals dedicated to transforming our constitutional republic into a socialist hive.
The leader of these radicals is multibillionaire George Soros. He has essentially privatized the Democratic Party, bringing it under his personal control. The Shadow Party is the instrument through which he exerts that control.
[snip]
…During the 2004 election cycle, the Shadow Party raised more than $300 million for Democrat candidates, prompting one of its operatives, MoveOn PAC director Eli Pariser, to declare, “Now it’s our party. We bought it, we own it…”
Read it all.
WHAT A PO$!
and just as disgusting, she went and took the SOS after all that was done to her by this PO$!