Courtesy of TPMCafe’s Greg Sargent:
“Obama communications director Robert Gibbs just released the following statement in response to the Clinton camp’s broadside this morning over David Geffen’s anti-Clinton comments:
‘We aren’t going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons and someone who was once one of their biggest supporters. It is ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln bedroom. It is also ironic that Senator Clinton lavished praise on Monday and is fully willing to accept today the support of South Carolina State Sen. Robert Ford, who said if Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because he’s black.’”
Geffen’s comments just weren’t that bad - some of it was harsh, personal and not all of it substantive - but supporters of a candidate are going to say things like that. While it may have been a “shot across the bow,” making an issue out of another candidate’s supporter taking Clinton to task for largely mainstream criticism comes across as petty and stupid. It would have been different if Geffen had attacked Hillary Clinton because of her gender or some other ‘out of bounds’ criticism. It just makes Hillary Clinton look worse when she is accepting support from somebody who has done just that to Barack Obama regarding race.
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