At a time when the Clinton momentum seems tenuous and she faces the real chance of losing the Primary to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, through her surrogates at ABC and the Washington Post have begun their first real attempts at swift boating Barack Obama out of the water.
The story about a 2006 indictment of an associate of Obama, Antoin Rezko has been public knowledge but canned and primed to stop the emergence of Obama as the Democratic Nominee. Judging by the timing of the release of this story by ABC and the Washington Post, the time to stop Obama has come.
The story stems for the 2006 indictment of Antoin Rezko. It took almost 2 years for this relationship to come to light. The Republicans in 2006 didn't unearth this bombshell back when they were hoping and praying for a Democratic miss step.
In 2007 when the Democrats had assumed the majority in both houses and the Republicans were reeling, looking for anything that could upset the Democratic apple cart, nothing was reported.
It took 2008 and Obama beating Clinton in Iowa for this story to come to light. I speculate that the conversation at ABC news went something like this:
ABC Exec: "We have been told to slow down Obama anyway possible. What do we have ready to go?"
Washington Post: "A story we've had on corruption for about 2 years."
ABC Exec: "That's a good start. Let's deliver it now and tell everyone we can, right before we tell anyone about Kerry endorsing Obama."
Washington Post: "I'll let the Clintons know it's started."
Interestingly at 1:30 PST, Fox News, CNN, CBS News and MSNBC ALL seem to be ignoring this non-story since it's release. Hopefully this will be the end of this story's legs and we can get back to the issues of this year.
One thing is certain: That the swift boating tactic is not just for Rove anymore. The Clintons have adopted it for their own
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