ABC News announced today that the Clinton campaign has bought two new domain names. The
domains,
Votingpresent.com and Votingpresent.org, which are hosted by the same IP address as other Clinton sites, will be used to launch a negative Obama site.
The sites will paint Obama as cowardly.
Clinton's criticism is based of Obama’s voting “present” on key issues - including a bill that would allow children as young as 15 who had committed crimes with firearms on or near school property to be prosecuted as adults.
"Among the thousands of votes he cast in the Illinois Senate, he used the present vote on occasions when he believed bills were drafted in an unconstitutional manner. On other occasions, he voted present as part of legislative strategies, such as ones crafted by pro-choice forces in Illinois to thwart maneuvering by the opponents of a woman's right to choose." Said Obama spokesperson Bill Burton.
These are not, by a long shot, the first smear sites being launched by the candidates.
The Clinton campaign has been complaining about an Obama site called HillaryAttacks.BarackObama.com. As well as the HillaryAttacks.com which is not affiliated with the Obama campaign.
Clinton has also introduced Attacktimeline.com, which Clinton officials say chronicles the ways Obama and Edwards were publicly criticizing her long before she began lashing back.
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