Obama Enlists Clinton To Help Counter Palin

Obama enlists Clinton to help counter Palin
Star Tribune
Rapid-response team of female surrogates is being readied to take on the Republican ticket.
Sen. Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. John McCain, dispatching Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday.

Clinton’s campaign event in Florida, her first for Obama since the Democratic convention, will include a forceful response to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Palin injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday, Obama aides said.

With the McCain-Palin team courting undecided female voters, including some who backed Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Obama aides said they were counting on not only Clinton but also Democratic female governors to criticize Palin — and, by extension, McCain. Those governors include Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.
Within the Obama campaign and among Democratic officials nationwide, talks are well under way about how the party should treat Palin in the campaign — and what Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph Biden, need to do to regain the offensive after the Republican convention.
Some Democrats were urging Obama’s campaign not to underestimate the potential power of Palin’s speech.
On liberal talk-radio shows and on left-leaning blogs, some Democrats said the Obama campaign should fight back hard to avoid being caricatured as Sen. John Kerry was four years ago when he ran against President Bush. Some party strategists warned that Palin’s personal narrative as a “hockey mom” with a special-needs child would appeal to some undecided women.

“What McCain has done with Governor Palin’s nomination is aim right at a demographic that Obama needs to address quickly: noncollege-educated women,” said Mike McCurry, a former spokesman in the Clinton White House.

Advisers to Obama predicted that the buzz over Palin would fade and that the race would quickly turn back into a contest between McCain and Obama, despite the McCain campaign’s efforts to compare Obama’s experience unfavorably to Palin’s. At the same time, even as Democratic researchers pore over Palin’s record in Alaska, the rapid-response team is settnig up in Chicago to dispatch female surrogates around the country.
David Axelrod, the Obama campaign’s chief political strategist, said Obama would not raise questions about Palin’s experience. Axelrod said the campaign would work instead to impress upon voters the seriousness of the race and continue to try to link the McCain-Palin team to Bush.

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Wild Thing’s comment……..
A what? A who? hahaha Rapid-response team of female surrogates to fight off Palin. hahaha This is rich!
They know they’re in trouble. WOW my very first thought is here is a man that wants to be President and he is sending our WOMEN to fight his battles for him. LMAO
Yeah, c’mon girlie-boy, show us how you’ll stand up to Iran by taking on the GOP.
I realize they are going up against a woman and that is the reason or part of it, but still. This is just too funny. Actually the contrasts between Sarah and Clinton will be striking. I think it was Rush that said Sarah is what guys want as a wife while Clinton reminds them of their ex wife. I’d say for females, Sarah would be someone they want to be friends with while Clinton is a woman at work they can’t stand. heh heh
So what is Hillary Clinton supposed to say in Florida ?
1.. She’s not as experienced as Obama….
2. She has not given us her full background…
3. She hasn’t released her birth certificate..
4.. She’s married and has 5 children, that’s not very Feminist…
5. Barack and Joe are the right team to lead America even though i was well qualified too…Darn !!