Reply #13: And Hillary is different how? [View All]

[Armstead]

Edwards campaign has always been based on running against business-as-usual. His basic message is going after the systemic problem of entrenched interests in power.

Hillary could have fought back on a meaningful level. However she chose to label such criticism as "mudslingong out of the GOP playbook." Which, of course, escalates it and takes the basic issue off track.

Likewise with Obama. Obama used very mild critiques and his proposals are hardly radical. But when he says he raising the Social Security cap is one possibility, maybe, that he might consider, Team Clinton immediately jumps in and accuses him of planning a multi-billion tax hike....And then she takes an innocuous remark by Obama about her hardly-hidden longtime presidential aspirations and goes back to his kindergarten days to smear him.

If the campaign were about really heated arguments about the most appropriate role and approach to government, then Hillary's fire would be appropriate. But instead, Team Clinton always returns it to personality battles.