More Roveian Tactics

Penn and Teller ... uh, I mean Wolfson get more Roveian by the day. After weeks of the so-called "kitchen sink" strategy -- a homey euphemism for prolonged and concerted negative attacks on Obama's electability -- today Ben Smith reports that the dynamic duo allege that Obama is going "shockingly negative." (!) This is apparently in reaction to a Chicago Tribune report that the Obama campaign is preparing a "a full assault on Sen. Hillary Clinton over ethics and transparency."

It's easy to see why the Clinton campaign is concerned about this possibility. For one, there's the insistence that the donor list for the Clinton library must remain anonymous, while they actually sold the list to the Walter Karl company, headed by a longtime supporter and donor.

There's Bill's ties to Brenco, in Brazil, recently accused by the Brazilian Labor Ministry of subjecting workers to "degrading" labor conditions.

Then there's Bill's consultant work with the government of Dubai about how to buy port facilities in the US (which failed), the $30 million donation to the library from a Canadian mining businessman in return for Bill brokering a uranium deal with the dictator of Kazakhstan, etc.

The questions, HuffingtonPost.com's Marc Cooper suggests are:

Whose money is whose? Where does Bill's end and Hillary's begin? What's the line between personal funding and political funding? Charitable versus political donations?

One might also argue that what Bill does is not necessarily what Hillary does. Except that Hillary has based her entire campaign on being a faithful offshoot of his legacy.