The Clinton camp, still reeling from the unexpected large defeat in Iowa, seems to be preparing a new line of attack against Obama. Tom Edsall reports:

Hillary’s aides point to Obama’s extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with “left-wing” intellectuals in Chicago’s Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants’ rights as subjects for examination.Along the same lines, ABC reported that Clinton aides gave the network various examples, of Obama’s controversial stands. The aides cited Obama’s past assertion that he would support ending mandatory minimum sentences for federal crimes, pointing to a 2004 statement at an NAACP-sponsored debate: “Mandatory minimums take too much discretion away from judges.”

Obama is a liberal? Oh my God. I’m glad they told us. Can you imagine if we allowed a liberal to win the Democratic party nomination? The horror!

In all fairness to her, Obama is attracting a lot of independents, so perhaps this line of attach is meant to make some of those stay away. And Democratic primary voters have been known to be swayed by the argument that someone is too liberal to be elected (*cough* Howard Dean *cough*). But considering the themes of the Obama campaign and the current political situation those seem like very lame attack lines.

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