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To: Road Walker who wrote (368295)	1/25/2008 12:16:44 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1583277

Washington Post January 24, 2008 Hillary's presidential campaign aired a new radio ad here Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Hussein Obama... The ad marked the escalation of a bitter fight between the two Democratic front-runners that has taken on a new dimension because of the involvement of Bill Clinton... Responding to the negative ad, Dick Harpootlian, a former chairman of the Democratic Party in South Carolina.....accused the Clintons of using.... .............the "politics of deception,"............... In response, Bill Clinton said Harpootlian's comments were a distraction, and he accused the Obama campaign of.... ............funneling smears through the media.......... CNN reporter Jessica Yellin, who asked him for a response to Harpootlian at an appearance in South Carolina. "They just spin you up on this and you happily go along," Clinton said. ..........As aides steered him away..... he scolded: ........."Shame on you." In Washington, Patrick Leahy, who endorsed Obama last week, castigated the former president for what he called his ............"glib cheap shots" at Obama............. "That's beneath the dignity of a former president," Leahy told reporters...adding: ............"He is not helping anyone, and certainly not helping the Democratic Party."...... That concern was also voiced by some neutral Democrats, who said that the former president's aggressive role, along with the couple's harsh approach recently, .........threatens to divide the party in the general election......... A few prominent Democrats, including Edward Kennedy and Rep. Rahm Emanuel, have spoken to the former president about the force of his Obama critiques. .............There is some fear within the party........... ......that if Obama becomes the nominee, he could emerge personally battered and politically compromised....... And there is concern that a Clinton victory could come at a cost -- particularly a loss of black voters, who could blame her for Obama's defeat and stay home in November. Mary Landrieu said......"The bottom line is, all this could cause a rift, but I hope it doesn't.".......... Harpootlian, a prominent voice in South Carolina politics and a onetime Clinton supporter, said the Clintons' recent tactics have been...... ..............."all about deceit.".................... For some rank-and-file Democrats..the tack against Obama is prompting a reevaluation of Clinton and her husband. Watching the use of rough-edged tactics against a fellow Democrat, some of those who supported him then are having second thoughts.