Clinton Activist Still Trying To Bring Down Obama

Some grudges never die.

Even as Hillary Clinton stumps for former rival Barack Obama, some Clinton supporters are still toiling to bring him down.

Clinton activist Heidi Li Feldman and her political action committee, The Denver Group, have turned a small amount of contributions into a few amateurish TV ads that have run in such battleground states as Ohio and Pennsylvania. Feldman, a law professor at Georgetown University, says she served as a volunteer legal consultant to Clinton's presidential campaign.

The ads, run under the banner "Democrats for Principle before Party," include this one which brings up Obama's former pastor, the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "A candidate who says he has the judgement to be president from Day One waited until Day 2,411 to cut his ties with someone who said America got what it deserved on 9/11." Then, in a line sure to push the buttons of Democrats old enough to remember, the ad brings up side-by-side pictures of Obama and the late President Richard Nixon, and poses the question liberals used to raise about Nixon: "Would you buy a used car from this man?"

The Denver Group doesn't have much money, so the ads won't air widely. The group has raised about $68,374 since forming in June and its big goal now is $15,000 by Election Day, an incredibly small amount by general election standards.

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11:30 AM ET | 10-20-2008 | permalink

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Clinton Backers Threaten Split With Party

The Denver Group, a political action committee led by Hillary Clinton activist Heidi Li Feldman, aired a TV ad last night demanding a roll call vote to determine the Democratic Party's nominee at next week's national convention in Denver.

The ad shows the Declaration of Independence and suggests that Hillary Clinton supporters could leave the Democratic Party if "democratic principles are not upheld." It ends threatening that, without a roll call vote to pick the party's candidate, "come November the Democratic Party could face a revolution."

-- Will Evans

4:38 PM ET | 08-23-2008 | permalink

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