One of Senator Barack Obama’s Iowa advisers invoked “Monica’s Blue Dress” when angrily responding to comments by former President Bill Clinton that some have interpreted as questioning Obama’s patriotism. He wrote it on his blog and then removed it. DETAILS HERE.
The Obama campaign quickly said these kinds of comments don’t belong in the campaign and that Obama “rejects” them.
This underscores the increasingly-bitter feeling between both sides. The danger is that it will go beyond “the kitchen sink” strategy and that both sides will soon try to uproot the entire kitchen and throw it at the other side. Are Democrats going to morph into sounding like Rush Limbaugh when discussing the candidate they don’t support in the nomination battle?
Don’t you get the feeling it’s going to be a looooooooong haul to the Democratic convention?
The upside for the Obama campaign: they immediately moved to reject the comments. That still probably won’t spare them some angry blog posts, since this is likely to become a political issue itself in the increasingly angry blogosphere.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.