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 Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:00 am Post subject: Hillary Goes Up in Smoke |
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 Hillary Goes Up in Smoke
As two new polls showed Hillary Rodham Clinton losing ground in New Hampshire, a top campaign aide yesterday blasted rival Sen. Barack Obama's past drug use.The attack from Clinton's New Hampshire co-chairman, William Shaheen, was the first time anyone on Clinton's team has raised Obama's marijuana and cocaine use - a history he's written about in the past and talked about more recently on the campaign trail.
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As two new polls showed Hillary Rodham Clinton losing ground in New Hampshire, a top campaign aide yesterday blasted rival Sen. Barack Obama's past drug use.The attack from Clinton's New Hampshire co-chairman, William Shaheen, was the first time anyone on Clinton's team has raised Obama's marijuana and cocaine use - a history he's written about in the past and talked about more recently on the campaign trail."The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight . . . and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use," Shaheen told The Washington Post.Obama's admissions will "open the door" to ugly questions that would hurt the Illinois Democrat's chancing of winning the White House, according to Shaheen, husband of former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen."It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?' " Shaheen said. "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."The Clinton campaign said it did not condone Shaheen's remarks and last night issued a statement from him in which he said, "I deeply regret the comments I made today" and said "they were not authorized by the campaign in any way."The Clinton campaign decided this week to pound Obama - who's been riding a wave of momentum into the Iowa caucuses - on the question of whether he's electable in November 2008. But Shaheen's comments were so sharp that it was unclear if he was following talking points, or taking the electability message too far.
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