Mabus accuses the Clinton campaign of calling Mississippi voters "second class."

"Now I don't know about you, but I'm tired of people putting us down," Mabus says in the ad. "Tired of politicians trying to divide our nation instead of lifting it up."

Let's see, so far we've got Goolsbee, an economics adviser who decided to dabble in foreign relations and then lie about it. Then Susan Rice admits on TV that her candidate is not qualified to answer an emergency phone call as president. And now this one. He is making the parallels to W. just way, way too easy. If this is what his campaign looks like, how many "Heckuva Job Brownie's" do you think will fill his cabinet?

I love how this person called Hillary a monster, then she says Hillary will do anything to win!

In fact, I wonder if this was intentional. A lot else said in the interview was as outrageous. Fits in with their theme.

Surely, you'd expect some wiser and cooler and more experienced heads among that sort of adviser, wouldn't you?

But Samantha Power is one of Obama's top foreign policy advisers. Goolsbee is his top economic adviser. Susan Rice is also a senior foreign policy adviser.

What kind of team is this for governance?

I've seen 3 of his aides taken to task on here, and they all have links to a print source. Both camps are held to account for any statement coming out of them.

but hey, that's just me, i'm funny that way.

flyerhawk, i've read your posts and refrained from comment. no longer. please substantiate your allegations of "attacks" by the clinton campaign. specifically, the implication that said "attacks" were baseless. provide links to unrelated third party sources.
otherwise, shut up.

halstoon! we've missed your inane comments. they finally let you out? what "challenging comments"?

Just so we're clear, do you disapprove of Obama's challenging comments?

that miss. isn't a second-class state, for a fair chunk of its citizens? you must be daft boy!

Obama's form of judgment in the White House for 4 years would ensure Republican rule for another 12 at least.  

The idea was that even though he was less experienced in federal government, he'd hire brilliant minds to help him.

In a 2002 interview at Berkeley[4] , that has been widely criticized [5], Power proposed that instead of encouraging negotiations between Israelis and Arabs, the United States should spend "billions of dollars" to send a " meaningful military" force to effect the "imposition of a solution" and create "the new state of Palestine" beside Israel. [6] In March 2008, Power described her previous opinion as "weird." [7]    LINK

Power made no "mistake" in the typical sense of the word. A mistake often implies misunderstanding or ignorance. In this case, it is not possible to defend Power on these grounds. She knows, as an academic and journalist, that it is the printed and spoken word that affects de-humanization of opponents in political struggles. She knew exactly what that word meant, above and beyond its normal use, in a political competition.

But this does give me ANOTHER opportunity to explain something - this is Jeralyn's blog.. She let's me write hre. We demand civility and respect for ourselves, for the candidates and for fellow commenters.

Failure to adhere to that will result in comment deletions, suspensions and if necessary, bannings.

This blog is not a democracy nor a pure free speech zone.

We welcome disagreement but not insults and incivility.

Beyond that it is off topic deflection and will not be tolerated at this blog.

For instance Hillary saying something like this...

"I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold," the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant's bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.

"I believe that I've done that. Certainl

No class. No class at all.

I think she is exactly the kind of people that need to be on a President's staff.  This a woman who has devoted her life to human rights and coming up with sound plans to solve real world crises.

The monster comment was childish, petulant, and definitely amateurish.  I don't see it as a "negative attack" in the political sense -- it doesn't prompt some damaging media debate about whether Hillary is really a monster.  It damages no one except the speaker and the principal (in this case Obama).  I kind of feel sorry for Obama on this one because it's just cringe inducing and, whatever you think of him, he clearly prides himself on trying to keep his own emotions in check and not being a hothead.  And if we're being honest, this incident is pure gold for the Clinton camp.

What's more interesting about this is that it's a window into the fact that the high emotions we see in various blog posts (on both sides) exist within the campaigns as well.  I have no doubt this is currently the case within both the Obama and Clinton campaigns.