Shouldn't Hillary's campaign fact check their attacks before they put them out?

[Joe the Revelator]

I mean really, DU was able to find that there was nothing illegal about the Do No Call phone calls, and yet Mark Penn shot Clinton in the foot again. I mean, partisanship aside, shouldn't her campaign be smarter then this?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. sheesh, how could they be entertaining, if they did?

let them be. they are getting funnier and funnier, as they get more desperate.

[Sulawesi]

2. It is really getting silly...I can't wait until this is over...

[Cha]

3. I don't know...they thought

sidling up to bush was the thing to do..didn't fact check then and haven't in 5 years. Why start now?

[Clintonista2]

4. Did you seriously just spell it "ileagle"?

Ouch.

[Joe the Revelator]

8. I can always spell check.

To bad winning the nomination isn't that easy.

[chascarrillo]

5. And I'm not even a lawyer...

... sigh.

The Boston Globe can't even bother to fact check: http://www.boston.com/news/local/politics/primarysource/2008/01/clinton_campaig_3.html

[bowens43]

6. Hillary's old school

she doesn't need facts.

[regnaD kciN]

12. "Throw enough mud against the wall, and some of it will stick"...

It's one of the oldest political adages, and has been honed to a fine edge by Atwater and Rove for the G.O.P. over the last twenty-five years. Launch enough accusations, even if untrue, and your opponent won't have the time to rebut each individually. Even if they do, lots of people will come away with a sense of "even if most of these aren't true, some of them must be."

It was the strategy used during the general election in 2000 to spread the meme that Gore was a compulsive liar. Every charge was easy to disprove, but it left enough people skeptical about his honesty that it probably made the difference in that (s)election.

[tammywammy]

7. It's more entertaining that they didn't

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. I think this dings both campaigns

It is legal but intrusive and unpopular to make those calls, and even the Republicans backed off when called on it because people on that list didn't like it. If the Republicans see the importance of respecting New Hampshire voters expectations of privacy if they are on that list (even if that expectation was based on a wrong assumption) than Obama's campaign should also.

Having said that the Clinton campaign put it's foot in it's mouth by making the wrong allegation about the legality of those calls. That was simply inept and blunts a minor side issue that played to their mild advantage and threatens to make it into a minor negative for them instead

[sandnsea]

11. Obama's campaign said they don't do it

And would have their call sheet vendor recheck their list to make sure the numbers aren't on it. So it doesn't hurt his campaign at all.

[sandnsea]

10. Classic Clinton, they don't care n/t

[Sparkly]

13. Is that where that came from?

I didn't realize it came from her campaign.

[Bluebear]

14. You say "ileagle" & question how smart a campaign is?

:)

[Joe the Revelator]

15. I'm payed by the word

They never said anything about spelling them right. ;)

[Yael]

16. That wouldn't be any fun though