Bill Clinton Attacks Barack Obama

Is this the shape of things to come? There's about four hours left for New Hampshire voters to pick their preferred candidate to represent them in the General Election and it looks as though there's record turnout on the Democratic side. The Clinton campaign seems to be preparing everyone for a second place finish and potentially a big shake-up in their campaign strategy, and Mitt Romney appears unusually happy considering that I hope he's going to losetonight.

But Bill Clinton has come out on the attack against Barack Obama today. Things have gotten pretty dirty on the Republican side, and I thought that the Democrats were being wise not to resort to politics as usual, but it looks like former President Bill Clinton has ended that. He has strongly criticised Barack Obama and the media coverage of his campaign. He was pretty scathing too. You can read his comments in this CNN Ticker article - http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/08/bill-clinton-targets-media-coverage-of-obama/

I think it's the wrong move for the Clinton campaign to go so negative. They'll only make the Obama campaign look better and it doesn't suit the tone of this campaign. I have a little less respect for former President Clinton today. He should have stayed positive. If voters weren't responding to that, then it just wasn't Hillary Clinton's time. It's not an excuse to go negative.