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Clinton Amps Up Attacks on Obama
February 09, 2008 2:11 AM
As she made her way through the Pacific Northwestern state of Washington, her anti-Obama language grew so sharp on occasion it merged with her anti-Bush rhetoric.
Read more about it HERE.
- jpt
February 9, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (29)
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Yep. Geevil and LawOfAttraction got it down on Hill and O. 100% true. Not an untrue thing uttered.
Better cast your vote for Hill.
GO Hill GO!
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Feb 11, 2008 4:03:58 PM
Hillary must show her income tax return,
before the gop can make it a debatable
subject.
Posted by: edward magee | Feb 11, 2008 12:56:53 PM
I'd rather have less experience then the same tired old crap that lies to the people.
Posted by: Ne | Feb 10, 2008 10:47:32 AM
Well, I guess we will all get what we deserve!
Obama, a senator with 2 years of experience and God help us all!
Posted by: Fair | Feb 10, 2008 8:51:39 AM
Drew in Chicago,
you need to look beyond the "at a glance" section of his ideas. At the bottom of the page there is a hyper text that explains in more detail the problem, and how he beleives it should be managed.
Posted by: Obama'08 | Feb 9, 2008 8:51:25 PM
"Obama doesnt back his ideas up with facts? Have you done ANY research? Visit his website, it outlines his plans in detail." To Obama '08, there are NO details his website. He says nothing in detail about expanding hate crimes...to what? to include gays, transgender? NOPE. no detail. How will he strengthen civil rights enforcement? Will he end discrimination against homosexual couples by giving equal tax credit treatment as everyone else in marriage? NOPE. no detail. Does he have any detail to fight employment discrimination against homosexuals? NOPE. no detail. AND that's just on civil rights issues on his site that he has NO details.
Posted by: Drew, Chicago IL | Feb 9, 2008 8:07:41 PM
Obama doesnt back his ideas up with facts? Have you done ANY research? Visit his website, it outlines his plans in detail. Hillary has outright lied about Obamas policies during her speechs...She relies on her supporters taking her word as gospel and not doing any outside research.
Any as for Hillary's health care "solution". That would be great, having my wages garneshed will only make it so my family cant eat one night a week...who needs dinner?
Posted by: Obama'08 | Feb 9, 2008 6:47:40 PM
Some of the programmed responses by Obama followers are really creepy. They must be cut and pasting something written out for them. Where will they end up after Obama loses? Guana? Waco? Kenya? Indonesia?
Posted by: geevill | Feb 9, 2008 4:57:39 PM
Take the excellent public speaking talents from Obama and what are we left with? A man in a suit.
He can't drill down into specifics about what he wants to accomplish. He often rides Hillary's ideas. Hello, she wanted Univ Health Care 15 years ago. Now everyone jumps on her band wagon.
Obama is a dangerous plague that some of our country is getting infected with.
I don't trust Obama with his finger on our nukes. I trust Hillary, her finger has already been near the button. We know what we're getting with her.
GO HILLARY
Posted by: LawofAttraction | Feb 9, 2008 4:02:44 PM
Are you people nuts that are backing Barack Obama Bin Ladin?
How much Kool Aid did you people drink of his?
He's way too inexperienced to be our President. He won't recite the pledge of the legence and he won't wear an American flag pin.
Have you forgotton he's a muslim? Have you forgotton we're at war with radical muslims who have promised to destroy our country from the inside out?
Wow people...wake up!
GO HILLARY, it's more than a campaign you'll win, you'll save our country from Obama destruction!!
Posted by: LawofAttraction | Feb 9, 2008 3:55:28 PM
eleven22
Huck is cool. Don't be hatin on the Huck. You ought to get out more.
I got some good vibes coming about what's going down in Kansas today.
What wrong with Kansas? Not much from where I am sitting. No Kansas is ALL good. Take a trip there and feel the love.
Roll ON Huck.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Feb 9, 2008 3:51:07 PM
The Commander Guy ,
Hucks a bigot, he even implied women should remain in their place with his whole they are subservant to men speach. Early on he was spreading his good news, now he is regretting it.
Huck is road kill. ROFL!
Posted by: eleven22 | Feb 9, 2008 12:37:35 PM
Funny Hillary says some crap about Obama , and its "Hillary is taking acrap on Obama" all on the headlines. Obama makes commericals and puts her down in his speaches, and its "Hillary is taking acrap on Obama." Kina of bias if you ask me.
Posted by: werdup | Feb 9, 2008 12:34:22 PM
Posted by: stopthemadness | Feb 9, 2008 12:30:58 PM
Hillary and Bill are clearly in a bad place. They thought they were entitled to a landslide and it isnt happening. Neither Bill or Hillary are in Barack Obama's league in terms of integrity, judgement, and communication skills. Bill and Hillary are motivated for, more than anything else, personal glory and power.
I sincerely hope everyone does everything they possibly can to get out and vote and ensure that Barack wins this.
Posted by: Mike Denhof | Feb 9, 2008 12:26:44 PM
Reaction to Hillary = Respect.
Reaction to Barack = Love + Respect
Obama comes out on top.
So she's got to kneecap him. Just like the Phony Chelsea Outrage Story Yesterday. That was Pure Rove Pump up the Base strategy. Claim an outrageous grievance that motivates your BASE voter (aka women 50+) at the same time. Chelsea's a strong highly educated woman about 30 years old and an unkind word causes a media calamity. Classic Rove Man.
This is why she will win. Hill and Bill live politics. Everything is a choreographed stunt designed for the maximum poli-effect. 24-7, game is always on and BS flows constantly.
Obama can't match this.
This why you got to Vote Huck coming up. HUCK's got these guys down pat. They are not gonna be able to pull the same stunts on Huck.
Huck's Ready. Huck's Locked and Loaded.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Feb 9, 2008 12:20:19 PM
negative remarks about Obama cant help one bit. He can lift this country up to higher heights of progress, national confidence and clearer vision. Dont try to you turn your eyes or ears away from his speeches and debates, Try viewing his details economic reform plans on his website, and read the millions of possitive comments from all over the world from people who are familiar with the clintons but yet see a solid progressive change for America with Obama as president, you can still feel something possitive in the air becasue he inspires or makes you become involved in rebuilding this country - together. This reflects JFK's lines "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country..." If we can only see beyound the colour of a man's skin that is so much insignificant in this race, and see the bigger picture for the sake of our country, then all the puzzle peices you've been overlooking will fall into place. What else can we ask for? A leader with wisdom and intellligence. Lets be true to ourselves and our beloved country and vote him into office. He Will get the job done once in the oval office and we can be a part of the transformation aswell.
Posted by: Louis | Feb 9, 2008 12:06:45 PM
I am an African who grew up at home and in the UK and you might say I have a pretty broad worldview of your elections and its impact on the globe.
Bush Snr and Colin Powell want Barak.
They felt the madness of the hawks when the former was President and duly blocked them. They ushered in Dubia in a now successful attempt to extinguish that madness, under his 'supervision', thereby paving the way for a leadership that would unite America at home and bring global respect and admiration back with a tradition that was re-engineered by FDR and almost re-invigorated by JFK.
America si at the threshold of an historic political change.
If I were an American, I will say 'stand up Bush Snr and Colin Powell' take a bow, for in old age, when long in the tooth, true patriots disregard all teh childish electioneering and partisanship and think only of one thing, the good of America.
All the shortcomings of your contestants that we read are local nuances useful to score cheap and fleeting electoral points while being irrelevant in the long term and to the big picture and the wider world perspective.
The US economy needs Obama/Clinton 2008. Bush Snr never did forget that Clinton quip "It's the economy stupid".
Don't fear, doubt or mock change. Embrace it, be part of it, get with it, benefit from it!
Posted by: Taj | Feb 9, 2008 11:08:20 AM
Lets see Obama speeches are stolen from every speech ever given. My god in his speeches he even uses quotes from movies.
WHAT A CULT
Posted by: Freak Show | Feb 9, 2008 9:20:15 AM
This is not the forum to air your incompetent accusations. I guess most all of you flunked out of "Make a good decision" 101 in high school. Sorry, to say but some voters just shouldn't be allowed to vote...because they are just incompetent. If Hillary doesn't make it as the chosen one...sorry, but this democrat and others will vote for the most competent man...and that would be McCain...anytime over Obama!
Posted by: Curliss | Feb 9, 2008 9:19:33 AM
Obama cult is here. Only stupid people follow cults and don't even realize they are in one. Just ask anybody who is not blinded by Obama's cult if he is one and they will say yes
Obama trolls are here to
Posted by: Freak Show | Feb 9, 2008 9:18:25 AM
OK, let's see,
Her venues are smaller,
she sounds like an bitter complaining ex-wife,
she can't even get the context of her attacks right,
she steals his phrases and themes,
she even steals his style of campaigning,
she DOES have much to hide in those returns,
she IS low on money regardless of what she says,
she's even has her semi-mute (adult) daughter calling elected officials for her,
she will lose most of the next contests, and
Bill has been cowed into silence for being an idiot...
by the time she gets to TX, OH, & Penn St. where she thinks she can win, she will be an also-ran. Any success she can eek out will be sympathetic and steeped in pity.
Its time to put this away and move on. She's thru....
Posted by: dionysus | Feb 9, 2008 7:53:42 AM
Hillary is NOT well liked or even respected by world leaders or the general public overseas.I travel all over the world on business all year long going to Europe,the Middle East and Asia mainly.
People over there are of course very anxious about the next American President, and and hardly anybody can understand why America (re-)elected George W.Bush in 2004.
To make a fresh start and to show the world we are a compassionate and smart Nation, we HAVE to elect a leader who is a UNIFIER not a Divider (as Hillary comes across to most people).
I am a (moderate) Republican and I will vote for Obama as he is the ONLY candidate who really is going to change things. With all others we get the same thing we had for so long. Now is a historic chance to make our Nation respected and admired again.
If Hillary were the candidate she would loose to McCain.The Republicans would love to have her as the Democratic nominee because they have SO much dirt on her.
The world is closely following what we decide and I think it would be a tremendous mistake to choose anybody else than BARACK OBAMA. He is more than ready because he is compassionate, intelligent and trustworthy.Why would he take all of this grueling campaigning if he would not love America and have a recipe to make America great again? And why would so many millions and millions of people of all age groups,male or female,all races and religions, all across our great Nation support him if he was not for real?
This is a historic moment in our history.AMERICA please don't waste it.CHOOSE BARACK OBAMA for the sake of all of us in this great Nation and all around the world.
Posted by: Andrew K. | Feb 9, 2008 7:30:32 AM
Let her show her INCOME TAX RETURN to all her CULT followers to see if they wake up from their zombie state. I just can't believe how incredibly ignorant can people be to believe somebody who has been involved in shady investments and other unclear legal issues, and has got away with it.It looks like somebody is running short of cash so they need desperately to get to the White House. Just go to the Congress Archives and read about all of hers and her husband's depositions where their favorite answer is: no recollection, I didn't know, it was their fault. Can you trust the biggest office in the country to somebody like that? I don't think so.
Posted by: carmen | Feb 9, 2008 6:01:39 AM
I support Obama to be clear. I think that the "cult" argument could be aplied to all the "Osama, Obama" Cliton supporters like thoes in Neveda's Race. There is always going to be those few people who are overexcited about their canidates. The argument is also disingenuines in nature becaue I would like to know the diffrace between a cult and a movement besides the number of supporters? Christianity started as a cult, so did America's start. The Massons where an invalubale tool in the revalutionary war due to there loalty and secrecy. Not many people know that the majority of Washington's generals where Massions. So again what is the diffrance between a cult and a movement besides the number of supporters?
Posted by: Dominic | Feb 9, 2008 5:50:36 AM
Obama-mania = CULT
Posted by: Rick | Feb 9, 2008 5:21:18 AM
If Clinton isn't clear on who she's referring to in a stump speech, I'm 'deeply troubled' what she'd be like as President talking about other countries and their leaders. Is she going to get them mixed up as well?
President Obama, please.
Posted by: Tom J | Feb 9, 2008 4:06:22 AM
Hillary better watch out. Obama's freaky CULT will launch their new wave of complaining. Obama's cult is so weird that in schools you have to for Obama or your an outcast. NOW thats a CULT.
Posted by: Freak Show | Feb 9, 2008 3:48:15 AM
Hillary bribed with $5,000,000+ in cash? Secret Tax returns for the Clintons? Why? What is she hiding? Who does she owe her fortune to: health insurance or drug companies or Blackwater or other military contractors? ABC news reports Bill Clinton is the only candidate since Watergate and Nixon who has kept who and how he gets his money secret.
The Washington Post and New York Times provide a good example of why:
Monday, February 4, 2008; It says that FRANK GIUSTRA has given $130 million to charitable enterprises of Bill Clinton. As the New York Times detailed: Mr.Giustra traveled with the former president in September 2005 to Kazakhstan. Where Mr. Clinton praised strong man Mr. Nazarbayev for "opening up the social and political life of your country." And, in contrast to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's previously expressed reservations, Mr. Clinton embraced Kazakhstan's bid to head the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Within a few days, Mr. Giustra had deals with and access to Kazakhstan uranium resources. Then Giustra pledged another $31.3 million to the William J. Clinton Foundation, adding to his previous $100 million donation.
Senators made about 80K?
This makes a mockery of McCaine-Feingold.
If the money comes from a book deal she has nothing to hide.
She needs to show me as a Democratic voter that this will not be an issue in the fall that will cause her to lose to McCaine.
Posted by: Graham | Feb 9, 2008 2:45:34 AM
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