<p>Washington</a> Times - Clinton attacks against Obama vanish on Web</p>
<p>Either what was on there was true or it wasn't. I guess the American public is just that stupid to allow politicians to get away with trying to destroy each other one minute and sucking up to each other the next. This had to be one of the ugliest primary campaigns ever and now all of the Democratic voters will just dismiss what was said. It's freaking hilarious.</p>
<p>HHHHahaha, this is oh-so-typical.</p>
<p>Hillary cleans house and this is viewed as "hypocrisy"???</p>
<p>It's not some evil conspiracy... it's her web site. Most web sites remove old material when it is no longer relevant to their purposes.</p>
<p>By removing the negative ad against Obama, I suspect Sen. Clinton's objective would be to reduce the likelihood that others would cite them in support of McCain and against Obama. I don't know it it will work, but it shows some party unity.</p>
<p>I don't see how it is any different from the fact that when my son graduated from college and started looking for a job, all the pictures of him getting drunk and also the lovely picture of him wearing a dress on Halloween all suddenly disappeared from Facebook.</p>
<p>Actually, now I realize what all the outrage is about! The GOP smear people were too dumb to download the stuff they wanted from the Hillary site and save their own copies.. and now they went back to get it and it's gone!!! How were they to know? They're just beginning to figure out the google and the *internets<a href="it's%20all%20a%20bunch%20of%20interconnected%20pipes%20or%20something,%20right?">/I</a></p>
<p>calmom, then you are missing the point. If you don't get it, I can't help you.</p>
<p>LOL Calmom- thats how I felt about the now gone "Meta" thread here. Wish I'd kept a copy :)</p>
<p>For those that want archives, use the Internet Wayback Machine.</p>
<p>For those supporting Hillary in 2012, go to hillaryis44.org.</p>
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The GOP smear people were too dumb to download the stuff they wanted from the Hillary site and save their own copies.. and now they went back to get it and it's gone!!!
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<p>Clinton's ads are copyrighted and, thus, her property. </p>
<p>I guess you will now argue that Hillary Clinton is now part of the vast right wing conspiracy against herself.</p>
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I guess the American public is just that stupid to allow politicians to get away with trying to destroy each other one minute and sucking up to each other the next.
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<p>True that. For example:</p>
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Jan 31, 2008. SIMI VALLEY, California (CNN) -- Front-runners John McCain and Mitt Romney attacked each other's conservative credentials as they fought for their party's top spot during the final showdown before the Super Tuesday contests.</p>
<p>The sharpest exchange in the debate came when Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, was asked about the McCain campaign's charge that he once said he favored a strict timetable for removing troops from Iraq.</p>
<p>Romney has consistently denied ever having backed a timetable and said McCain was taking a small portion of a quote out of context.</p>
<p>"It's simply wrong," Romney said. "By the way, raising it a few days before the Florida primary, when there was very little time for me to correct the record, falls in the kind of dirty tricks that Ronald Reagan would have found reprehensible."
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Feb. 14, 2008 BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney announced Thursday that he is backing Sen. John McCain in his bid for the Oval Office.</p>
<p>"I am honored today to give my full support to Sen. McCain's candidacy for the presidency of the United States," Romney said in a joint news conference with Sen. McCain by his side.
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<p>To follow: convoluted rationalization from the not-Right to argue the McCain-Romney (or, for that matter, the McCain-Bush) rapprochement is somehow different and more principled.</p>
<p>One of the big points of this issue is that Clinton sold her support for Obama and she had a high priced lawyer to negotiate the terms. For me at least, that seems to go beyond politics and crosses into the realm of truly disgusting and hypocritical behavior.</p>
<p>...again, if this is all the republicans have, it is good news for Obama. :eek:</p>
<p>Go Mitt Romney!! (oh wait, McCain can't stand him, even if he may be the front runner for the VP spot...;))</p>
<p>News flash: The sky is blue!!!</p>
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For me at least, that seems to go beyond politics and crosses into the realm of truly disgusting and hypocritical behavior.
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<p>As I said....</p>
<p>Actually I think it is just as hypocritical for Romney to disavow anything negative he said about McCain during the primaries. You can't argue the fact that the shots the Republican candidates took at each other pale in comparison to those of Hillary and Obama. It's absolutely laughable that they can even appear on the same stage and pretend to be friends at the end of the day. There have been some full blown general elections that didn't have that level of under-handedness and seething hatred. Don't tell me you are so partisan that you don't see that much?</p>
<p>Perhaps it is YOUR estimate of the level of rancor that is off base.</p>
<p>Again, exactly as I said....</p>
<p>McCain loathes Romney, yet is seriously considering him for VP. Bush partisans fostered rumors that McCain had an illegitimate black child. What is laughable is this feeble effort to somehow quantify who is more hypocritical in their embrace of their previous opponent.</p>
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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has scrubbed all negative ads from her campaign Web site and YouTube page, leaving visitors with only the warm and fuzzy moments from her bid for the presidency.
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<p>Leaving visitors with only the warm and fuzzy moments from her bid for the presidency? Wow, that web site must be rather short. </p>
<p>Showing the warm and fuzzy side of Hillary could fit on the back of one of the Kleenex tissues she used in New Hampshire.</p>
<p>Oh, come on. It's not hypocrisy. It says nothing more than this (for both Clinton & Romney):</p>
<p>"I believe that I am the better choice than my same-party opponent. But since that's not an option anymore, I certainly believe that my same-party opponent is better than the other party's candidate. Therefore, I will help my same-party candidate win."</p>
<p>What's the problem with that?</p>
<p>(And yes, it does happen that presidential and VP candidates dislike each other. Washington had no great love for Adams, and of course Kennedy and Johnson despised each other.)</p>