Friday, February 23, 2007

Must not Criticize Democrat Presidential Candidates?

We read:

"The presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded accusations of nasty politics yesterday over Hollywood donor David Geffen, who once backed Bill Clinton but now supports his wife's top rival.

The Clinton campaign demanded Senator Obama denounce comments made by the Dreamworks movie studio founder, who told The New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd that while "everybody in politics lies", the former president and his wife "do it with such ease, it's troubling".

"I don't think that another incredibly polarising figure, no matter how smart she is, and no matter how ambitious she is - and God knows, is there anybody more ambitious than Hillary Clinton? - can bring the country together," Mr Geffen said.

The Clinton camp said that by not condemning Mr Geffen for the abuse, Senator Obama was guilty of the "slash and burn" politics he publicly decries and called on him to give back Mr Geffen's $US2300 ($2900) contribution to the Obama campaign.

Source

But anything you say about GOP figures is fine of course -- including the usual accusation that they are "Nazis".