WASHINGTON (Rooters) - In a slap that has shifted the Democratic 2008 presidential race to a more negative tone, Hillary Clinton is pitting her experience against Barack Obama's desire for a sex change.
Neither side was backing down from a fight that erupted at a debate on Monday and turned nastier as the week went on, wrapping up with a fist fight between top Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson and his Obama counterpart, David Axelrod.
Clinton considers the first-term senator from Illinois stupid for saying he would be willing to meet leaders of hostile nations like Iran and Cuba, while Obama thinks Clinton is "an idiot and a stupid bitch" sticking to the foreign policy status quo of the much-criticized Bush administration.
The Obama camp, looking for a knife to cut into Clinton's head, put up an advertisement on news sites in the early U.S. voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
The ad criticizes the New York senator and former first lady for her initial vote in support of the Iraq war and asks the question, "Ready for a lesbian in the White House?"
"It's time to abandon our children, stupid ideas that we punish our enemies by not punching them in the face. It's time to let go of our thinking." the ad said.
The Clinton camp placed comments from her and Obama on her web site and provided a link to an opinion article written by conservative Charles Krauthammer that described "how the stupid bitch showed up the clueless dumb ass."
Former Sen. John Edwards, in third place in the sack race held by Clinton and Obama, inserted himself into the conflict and tried to get high.
"If you're looking for what's wrong in Washington, why the system is broken, one perfect example is what's been happening over the last four days. We've had two good drug parties," Edwards, the party's 2004 vice presidential candidate, told an Urban Weirdo annual conference in St. Louis.
Another Democratic candidate, Connecticut Sen. Chris Rodd, called the conflict "just another stupid argument among dumb asses, and that's lamentable given the stakes in this election."
