New Pro-Clinton 527 to Work to Slime Obama in Ohio

With each new dirty trick or sleazy anti-Obama allegation, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is making it increasingly impossible for me to vote for her should she by some miracle become the Democratic Party nominee. Perhaps if her team had not run what increasingly appears to have been an utterly incompetent campaign guided largely by some bizarre sense that Hillary had some divine right to the nomination, sleaze bag tactics would not be required now. As for Bill Clinton’s behavior, don’t even get me started on what I think of the man. Suffice it to say, he is narcissistic and self-absorbed and I’d have more respect for Hillary if she had divorced his sorry ass years ago. I shudder to contemplate what garbage this 527 will endeavor to throw at Obama based on this story from ABC News (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/new-pro-clinton.html) about the “American Leadership Project (ALP).” So far, Hillary’s attack ads seem to have boomeranged and hurt her as opposed to Obama. I hope that trend continues. Here are some highlights:

ABC News has learned that a group of Democratic politicos have set up a new independent 527 organization called the American Leadership Project (ALP) with the express purpose of helping Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, beat Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, in Ohio, and possibly Texas and Pennsylvania as well.

Free from campaign finance rules, ALP will not be legally permitted to coordinate with the Clinton campaign, but it is clearly intended to help her. The group is targeting through TV ads, mail, and phone communications white women under 50 in the Ohio area -- specifically Cleveland, Columbus, Youngstown, Charleston (WV), Wheeling- Steubenville, Zanesville, and Parkersburg (WV).

ALP has developed three ads aimed at pushing the idea that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is a talker and not a doer -- the ads are called “If speeches could solve problems" -- and they will contrast Obama and Clinton on issues of importance to middle class voters, such as the economy, health care, and the mortgage crisis. Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic this morning first reported that a pro-Clinton 527 had been set up. Per Ambinder, the group is "canvassing Clinton donors for pledges of up to $100,000 in the hope of raising at least $10M by the end of next week.