Obama to Dispatch Female Surrogates (Hillary) - NYTimes

[rndmprsn]

looking forward to Hillary counterpunching...who else is?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/05/us/politics/05dems.html?ref=us



ST. PAUL — Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said on Thursday.

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

...Some Democrats were urging Mr. Obama’s campaign not to underestimate the potential power of Ms. Palin’s electrifying speech to the Republican convention on Wednesday night even among voters not aligned with either party: On liberal talk-radio shows and on left-leaning blogs on Thursday, some Democrats fretted that the Obama campaign should fight back hard to avoid being caricatured as Senator John Kerry was four years ago. And some party strategists warned that Mrs. Palin’s personal narrative, as a “hockey mom” with a special-needs child, would appeal to some undecided women voters...

...Advisers to Mrs. Clinton, who has been on vacation this week, said that she stands ready to help the Obama-Biden ticket, but they urged not to overestimate the effect she could have, noting that she had other commitments this fall, like campaigning and raising money for Senate candidates.

Still, Mo Elleithee, a spokesman for Mrs. Clinton, said she could make a difference with some voters who feel lost in the current economy and who want to see a federal role enacting universal health insurance.

[Marsala]

1. "Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain"

Nice to see that the NYTimes has the ticket in proper order.

[my2sense]

2. Other Commitments?

More important than putting a democrat back in the white house? Wow - o.k.

[napi21]

3. I hope we can see or at least hear that speech. I suspect Hillary is more than a bit

pissed that that back woods incompetent had the nerve to use HER and HER EFFORTS in that pompous speech the other night.