Looks like the fear tactics of Camp Clinton have turned off this NH resident.

"Manchester, N.H. - New Hampshire resident and famed filmmaker Ken Burns said today that he is throwing his support behind Sen. Barack Obama for president, complaining that "recent events" and the negative tone of the campaign compelled him to come forward."

""I'm really just disappointed in the tone this campaign has taken on their part," Burns said, referring to Clinton. "I think she's getting some bad advice.""

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From the Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editor ial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/12/15/cli ntons_shenanigans/

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From the Boston Globe

<blockquote/That leaves open as to how far the Clinton campaign, whose poll leads have evaporated in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, will go to stereotype Obama as not only naïve, but cast him in a sinister light in a nation where black drug use and criminality is exaggerated in the media and where Muslims face undue wariness. Earlier this week, the Clinton staff fired two Iowa volunteer coordinators for circulating a hoax e-mail saying Obama, a Christian, was a Muslim who might help destroy the United States.<p>

"I don't think these strategies are very subtle," Obama said.

"I won't speak to the racial element of it because I think, you know, if I were a white candidate, obviously, somebody suggesting falsely they were a drug dealer, it's never good." But in sum, Obama, who has written about his teenage drug use in his memoirs, said, "There's been a series of these kinds of tactics that at some point we've just got to send a clear signal this is not what we're about."

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http://my.barackobama.com/page/community /post_group/ObamaHQ/CCSx

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"In our view, the choice on the Democratic side is between Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton has run a diligent, serious campaign, and her command of the issues is deep and reassuring. But her approach is needlessly defensive, a backward glance at the bruising political battles of the 1990s. Obama's candidacy looks forward."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/12/15/for_the_democrats_barack_obama/

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"In our view, the choice on the Democratic side is between Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton has run a diligent, serious campaign, and her command of the issues is deep and reassuring. But her approach is needlessly defensive, a backward glance at the bruising political battles of the 1990s. Obama's candidacy looks forward."

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The Boston Globe has endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articl es/2007/12/15/globe_endorses_mccain_obam a/

Of course, Boston ain't Iowa.

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Well, Eugene Robinson went there--suggesting that camp Clinton's clumsy handling of the Obama challenge stems from a deep-seated belief that "he's out of his place." Does Team Clinton see Obama as an "uppity" black man?

Mr. Robinson writes:

"There's a suggestion that he's somehow a usurper, which allows Obama supporters to charge that Clinton, without using the word, is accusing the Illinois senator of being uppity-- which opens up a discussion about history and entitlement that I can't imagine any Democratic front-runner would welcome."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con tent/article/2007/12/06/AR2007120601965. html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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FLASH: Rasmussen at 11 AM ET: South Carolina: Clinton loses lead... It's now Clinton 36% Obama 34%... last month, Clinton had ten-point lead... in September, she was up by 13... Developing...

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_2008__1/2008_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2008_south_carolina_democratic_primary

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From Talking Points Memo:

"A day after the Hillary campaign hit the Obama camp for bullying voters in nasty phone calls, the Hillary crew has just acknowledged that an Iowa county chair volunteering for the campaign passed along the now-notorious email that smears Obama as a Muslim by repeating the false claim that he attended a madrassa as a child."

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