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Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin
nytimes.com - 9/5/2008
Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin
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With the McCain-Palin team courting female voters, the Obama camp plans to deploy prominent women. >

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Male Presidential Candidate Uses Female Gender for Cynical Partisan Benefit
Patterico's Pontifications — ... to say this, but I value honesty above partisan credentials. I’ve reluctantly concluded that we’ve come to a point in time when a Presidential candidate is simply using the female gender to nakedly appeal to voters. It’s transparent and, I have to be honest, it’s pathetic. Maybe I’ll at least get an Yglesias Award. Read the ugly story of why I’ve come to this conclusion in the extended entry. The New York Times has the sordid details. Senator Barack Obama will ...

Hussein Begs Hillary To Protect Him From Scary Palin, Hillary Tells Him She Has Other Commitments - Can Only Help A Little
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — NYT: ST. PAUL — Senator Barack Obama will increasingly ask prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, persuading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to go Florida on Monday and hastily throwing a plan to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday. Advisers to Mrs. Clinton said that she stood ready to help the Obama-Biden ticket, but they urged the campaign not to overestimate the impact Mrs. Clinton could have, noting that she had other commitments this fall, ...

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