Thursday, November 22, 2007

Clinton Fires Back

For a while now, Edwards and Obama have been attacking Clinton mainly due to her lead in the Democratic polls, and both have teamed up in bringing her down (even though Obama said he would refraim from negative campaign). However, Clinton has not seemed to care or redirect the insults on political policy or capabilities until recently. Most likely due to the nearing Iowa vote for their Democratic candidate, each has stepped up their campaign, and Clinton has decided to fight back. Clinton is now accusing Obama of having little experience and will not be able to run the office. This is actually very important because right now there is about a three way tie in Iowa, with Clinton and Obama right next to each other and Edwards right behind. If Clinton wins Iowa, then there might be no stopping her because she has a big lead in most other places. Personally, I knew Clinton could not just sit there with her head held high for too long, it was just time until she fired back. Since the attacks on her actually have lowered her a little in polls, maybe this backfire will bring them back down or actually reduce them further. In Iowa it is so close, it could go either way. It will be interesting to see how much more mud is going to be thrown as the Iowa decision comes closer and closer.

2 comments:

Jenn Shin said...

It actually surprised em to see how long Clinton was withstanding the attacks by the other candidates, without defending herself and attacking others. The democrats are playing dirty game at debates. I can see that they are trying to use mud slinging as a method of lowering Clinton's support, but will it be enough?

Jordan said...

This is an interesting topic to me because I believe candidates should be answering to the needs of the people and expressing their own opinions rather than attacking the lack of opinions of their opponents because after he/she is elected the opponents views no longer matter (or at least wouldn't matter for the next four years). At the same time, I think weaknesses in potential presidents are important to know because better to expose weaknesses now than while in office. In conclusion, I am torn haha.