Clinton campaign ‘gets owned’
“They are the best practitioners of the old politics, so they will no doubt call me a traitor, an opportunist and a hypocrite. I will be branded as disloyal, power-hungry, but most importantly, they will use the exact words that Republicans used to attack me when I was defending President Clinton.”
That’s how Joe Andrews predicted his switch to Obama would be characterised by the Clinton campaign yesterday and, given that they had previously branded Bill Richardson a “Judas” for backing Barack, it’s not hard to see why.
So it comes as no surprise that Hillary’s campaign tried to marginalise Joe Andrew’s Indiana credentials in an MSNBC interview. It was a huge mistake though, because Joe Andrew not only fought back, but dealt an embarrassing knock-out blow to the attempt.
In modern parlance, the Clinton campaign got owned: