Friday, September 21, 2007

Hillary's campaign "engaged in the politics of personal destruction"

Hillary Clinton has fired off some hypocrisy. A senior advisor took aim at Rudy Giuliani's personal life - namely his previous failed marriages and the stained relationships he has with his children. Despite a pledge to run a clean campaign and neither engage in personal attacks nor condone them among allies, Senator Clinton is refusing to condemn Tom Vilsack's personal attacks against Mayor Giuliani. Is there anyone, anywhere who's surprised?

Getting Personal: Clinton Ally Rips Giuliani
ABC News

Despite Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton's longtime state opposition to "the politics of personal destruction," one of her top advisers has attacked the personal life of Republican presidential front-runner Rudy Giuliani.

Though this may be the first such high-profile attack on the personal life of a presidential hopeful launched in this highly competitive election season, the New York senator notably refused to distance herself from the comments.

The attack come in an interview on NY1, when former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, a top Clinton presidential campaign advisor, laughed when an interviewer discussed the prospect of Giuliani as the GOP presidential nominee.

Asked what was so funny, Vilsack replied, "There's a lot that the rest of the country's going to get to know about Mayor Giuliani that the folks in New York City know, but the rest of the nation doesn't know."

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