Remember that
Novak column? You know, the one that warned the Clinton camp was ready to
spread dirt on Obama that had Barack parroting the Prince of Darkness’s drivel
in a statement about being “swiftboated.”
Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles
that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party’s
presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it.
The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed. … ..
As the Clinton campaign said at the time, Novak was full of it. Howard Wolfson:
Once again Senator Obama is echoing Republican talking points, this time
from Bob Novak.This is how Republicans work.
A Republican-leaning journalist runs a blind item designed to set Democrats
against one another. Experienced Democrats see this for what it is. Others
get distracted and thrown off their games.Voters should be concerned about the readiness of any Democrat inexperienced
enough to fall for this.There is a campaign in this race that has engaged in the very practice that
Senator Obama is decrying, and it’s his.We have no idea what Mr. Novak’s item is about and reject it totally. Instead
of pointing fingers at us, Senator Obama should get back to the issues and
focus on what this election is really about.
According
to Ben Smith, we once again learn that believing anything Novak says is
a mistake. Smith reports that tomorrow’s Novak column will allegedly say that the “scandal” was nothing but the information on Obama’s Hopefund PAC. In early December, Clinton
challenged the legalities of what Obama’s team was doing with Hopefund in regards
to election law on her presidential site, making no secret about it. Also, it’s not very sexy stuff. It raised some sharp
criticism in some places about Obama’s PAC, but it’s not exactly “scandalous information,” now is it? In the end, everyone yawned and moved on. It wasn’t anything near the pitch of Obama’s big presser. As Ben Smith states, it’s also unlikely any reader had election law in
mind when Obama went screaming to the media about Novak’s gossip, obviously in the
hopes of sliming Clinton for dirty tricks. Who cares if the campaign denied it and it wasn’t true? It had the added benefit of taking the attention way from Obama’s dismal debate performance out of Las Vegas.
Obama jumped the gun and was quick to go after a Democrat,
even when the Plamegate traitor Novak was involved. At least Mr. Obama let’s us know his priorities.
To
quote Greg Sargent, any chance we can all agree not to waste our time
talking about it the next time Novak says something like this?
We didn’t have to talk about it in the first place if Obama had understood that taking bait from Novak, a congenital trouble maker for Democrats, is never a good idea. Let right-wing talking points lie.
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