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It is a pity to note that Hillary Cliton with all her experience in the whitehouse as she claims could be involved in a verbal combat with Obama Barack is set to correct the ills that Cliton's and Bush's administrations have infested on the American people and in the middle east.Democrats all over the world should guide their votes.If Hillary ll take my advice,I think she should appreciate God for giving America a LEADER like Obama

Clinton supporters: Please start sending donations directly to Iowa, where cleaning & catering companies are still being unpaid by the Clinton campaign. This money would really go to hard working people instead of to big Washington campaign advisors from HRC's political circle.

Hillary has been critical of NAFTA long before she started running for President. For example, here's Hillary in March 2000:

What happened to NAFTA I think was we inherited an agreement that we didn’t get everything we should have got out of it in my opinion. I think the NAFTA agreement was flawed. The problem is we have to go back and figure out how we are going to fix that. [Working Families Party, 3/26/00]

Sen. Obama touts his consistent opposition to NAFTA. But speaking in Illinois in 2004 Obama said the United States "benefited enormously" from exports under NAFTA and talked about the need to continue to pursue trade agreement like NAFTA that support "a system of free trade in this nation that allows us to move our products overseas."

Hillary is clearly the better choice!

TO MAD AS HECK IN TEXAS...

So, is it not true that in order to hear OBAMA speak in Texas, you had to first GO VOTE?!? Check out his REAL positions, and I bet you would be shocked. By the way, that voting thing was not on the cable news, but in a dallas newspaper. Now that seems illegal to me.

D. Anderson: No, we can't take 4 more years of your saying negative comments and complaining.....

The truth is, the NAFTA Agreement was signed by Bill Clinton on Sept. 14 1993.

Sen. Clinton has always touted her 35years of experience and this includes her years in the White House. This is Hillary Clinton’s voting record on the NAFTA issue.

1) She voted yes to free trade agreement with Oman, Ref. United States - Oman Free Trade Agreement: Bill S.3569: Vote number 2006-190 on June 29, 2006.

2) She voted yes on establishing Free Trade Agreement between US and Singapore. Ref.: US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act. Bill S.1417/HR 2739: Vote number 2003-318 on Jul. 31 2003.

3) She voted yes on establishing Free Trade between the US and Chile. Ref. US-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation. Act. Bill S. 1416/HR 2738. Vote number 2003-319 on July 31 2003.

4) Voted yes on granting normal trade relations status to Vietnam. Ref: Bill HJRES51: Vote number 2001-291 on October 3, 2001.

5)She also voted for open trade with China, despite China's substantial human rights violations and evidence to show that NAFTA has caused the loss of millions of US jobs to non-industrial countries and hasn't delivered on the promise of widespread prosperity.

Sen. Clinton speaks about NAFTA saying that she never supported it from day one. The truth is in her voting record. Don't believe what anyone says, just look it up, use the internet to see her voting record on NAFTA. Hillary, do you think Americans cannot search for your voting records on line? "Sen. Hillary Clinton Shame on you". People in Ohio please don't vote for Hillary, she's all about lies, lies and more lies.

Anger and outrage today; another of your "moments" Thursday night. Who are you Hillary? Do you even know what you stand for anymore? Seems America is getting a little confused. I really don't like the scolding...you are one finger pointing episode away from Bill's red faced tyrades.

You can't (or shouldn't) attack Obama for the very things you are doing. You attack his health care; you attacked what you called plagerism. Apparently the crowd in Austin didn't think he had Xeroxed anything.

Hillary, you should know your campaign is in trouble when all the talking heads start poiting out what you need to do to "turn things around".

I am angry too Hillary. Sick and tired of your and Bill's old style dirty political tricks.

Is it just me or is Hillary starting to sound more and more like George w. Bush with her latest RANT.

"MEET ME IN OHIO"
"BRING IT ON"

Different words, same arrogant attitude.

Do we want someone who RANTS on stage as our next president? Can we take 4 more years of the same type of attitude?

D Anderson

Can Americans afford or sacrifice to go "Back in the Past" without their current necessities?

FYI: Following are manufactured in other countries?

Laptop, Computers - iPods - Make in Japan, China
Toys - Made in China
Cosmetics - Made in France
Clothes - Made in China, Phillipine, Pakistan
Toys - Made in China
Beef - Made in Japan and China
Cars - Made in Europe, Korea, Mexico and China

i think jane fonda was refering to her on the today show.

Hillary brags about her 35 years experience and brags about the golden 90's when Bill's was such a great president but she NOW wants to distance herself from NAFTA because it was NOT one of Bill's successes during his administration. It's not right to pick and choose what she wants to take pride in during her husband's administration. THIS COST PEOPLE IN OHIO JOBS! SHAME OH HILL& BILL!

Hillary Clinton should bow her face in shame. I used to have some respect for the Clintons, now i don't know anymore. Obama could have used these nasty words(shame on you) on Hillary and Bill all the time they attacked him including when Hillary said that she was in the business of problem solving while Obama was in the business of talking. Obama behaved maturedly and only drove down his points. The truth is that the Clintons supported NAFTA in the past. Shame on you Hillary.

Obama's Law of Commonsense

Law 1: Insire yourself and make voters feel inspired

Law 2: Talk slowly and look Brillaint

Law 3: Give voters whatever they want

Law 4: Play victim when attacked

Law 5: Yell Change and people will follow you

Law 6: If Universal healthcare is not important for every voter give them less important healthcare

Law 7: If you want Blue collar votes yell "NAFTA"

Law 7: Bring Oprah

I am a little puzzled here:

Hillary Clinton knew about the NAFTA and health care issue and complained about them in Wisconsin. During the debate in Texas she tells Obama that she is honored to be with him. Now she is telling this same Obama, "shame on you". Is this the same Hillary, or is she assuming that our memory is that short?

It is odd that Hillary wants to use her time in the White House as her experience but then does not want to have anything to do with the policies of her husband which were truly destructive to the working people of this Country.

As far as healthcare, she can’t have it both ways. She wants a mandated program and has said that she would garnish wages.

Comparing Obama to Bush and then crying foul is a bit hypocritical. I wish she would decide which “Hillary” she wants to be. Given the way the Clinton campaign is going, she is sounding less credible by the day.

In the end, the Clintons came to power making all kinds of promises the first time only to abandon them in order to join the Gingrich war on the working people of this Country. Promises are cheap. Why should we believe them this time around?

Obama is the only one I've seen recycling Republican Harry and Louise ads. It's disgusting.

Obama's "change you can believe in" means rolling over for Republicans. No thanks, I'll sit this one out.

Newsflash: Patti Solis Doyle is no longer Hillary's campaign manager.

This seems like a manufactured crisis. These posters have been out for a few weeks now. I don't mind though. Let'em go at it.

Lets get real No matter what Hillary or Obama says McCain's right those jobs in Ohio are not coming back.

If Harry Truman were alive today I beleive that he would tell Obama, "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen", especially before Chef McCain comes in. I have never seen the media so soft on a presidential candiate as they have been with Obama. Kennedy's Don't cry but Obama's do.

Don't know why, but Hillary's tirade reminded me of the "Leave Britany Alone" fiasco.

The way I see it, this is just another ploy to get on the front page. She is the one making the distinction about the health care plans. Obama has a right to educate the public on the repercussions of this plan.

Further, Hillary lauded the Nafta mess in her book. Took credit for it when it was deemed a success. Now that it has fallen apart she wants to distance herself from it. Please. Don't insult our intellegence.

I am going to be sooo glad when this is all over.

-- I watched this afternoon a press conference on CNN with Obama answering to Hilary's "Shame On You". He was very uncomfortable and stammering and stuttering. --

He had the look of a chastened schoolboy
on his face.

He knows what his staff has been putting
out, while he runs high & mighty as the
candidate of integrity.

Again - why the "Harry & Louise" imagery?
That is GOP-style deingration of opponent.

I lived in the US for alomost four years, teached the children in a public school, and married a Us citizen. I love american personality in the whole and their love for the country. Obama is no different from our traditional politicians here ( Philippines)who are supported by oligarchy with their special interest and most of all ended corrupt. I pity the Americans who will end up voting for him for he is dishonest to the point of no integrity and selling American dream for his dream of money and power.

I watched this afternoon a press conference on CNN with Obama answering to Hilary's "Shame On You". He was very uncomfortable and stammering and stuttering. This is big news. I also noticed how the media has not shown any of this tape, but only a statement saying the mailers are true. I think the media IS biased towards Clinton. They are tired of her and only want to report on the new kid in town. I think her "Shame on You" statement is valid and I wish the media would show Obama's ruffled and unsmooth response. He was visibly unprepared and I think I may have even seen a bead of sweat on his forehead!

GO Hillary! Hasn't anyone noticed that the man who says he'll listen to others and admit when he's wrong is NEVER wrong. Thank God Hillary called Barack out today, but of course he'll never own up to his part - he never does. He just keeps showing us, time and time again, that he can dish it out, but he can't take it. Talk about the man with the walking double standard. We're in trouble if he makes it to the White House. Oh but wait a minute - we should be used to this since it's what we've been living with for the last 8 years.

dotheresearch: as someone else used this metaphor, it is a fairly good one: mandated insurance is like car insurance.......if someone is not covered and they cause an accident, they should be penalized out the wazoo....people who don't drive with car insurance and then cause accidents (or are INVOLVED in accidents, where they have a percentage of the accident responsibility) drive up the cost of insurance for OTHER responsible citizens who HAVE insurance. Besides, with catastrophic diseases on the rise and the cost it takes to care for people with these diseases, it only follows that EVERYONE have MANDATED health insurance, or the un-insured AND under-insured will bankrupt the whole healthcare system for the rest of us. It just makes logical and smart sense to have EVERYONE covered. Period.

There is a sudden nervousness surrounding the Obama campaign and it probably has little to do with the upcoming debate or primaries.

What is wrong with you people? Hillary did say that Universal Healthcare would be mandated and that EVERYONE had to buy in or they would be penalized. She said it during the last debate this past week. Which lead to the heated discussion on why that was a bad idea and Obama telling her that folks who can't afford it will be penalized and still be without insurance but worse off than they were before. How else would she expect to make sure everyone bought into her plan? ANYONE, ANYONE???? please. Regarding NAFTA that happened under her watch it is a part of her "35 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE".

Nafta was signed by Bush Sr., it did make legislation until under a republican congress when Bill was president, so it was in orogress with the republicans and the first administration before Bill Clinton ever took office. During the Bush Jr.= years it was misused, it was about trade idiots not outsourcing jobs. That falls directly under Bush Jr. head and his buddy Cheney.

I hope the sponsors of the next debate will consider focusing more heavily on the health insurance differences between the two candidates. They foreclosed the lively discussion that had just gotten underway in the last debate due to Campbell Brown's inexperience. This is an opportunity to really get at a central difference in their campaigns - one that spells the difference between effective and meaningless change.

Obama thinks that mandates are okay for children - although the practical application of that is mindboggling. Doesn't he realize that providing health care for children is not where the big money is being spent. Fortunately, children are among the healthiest in our population; and, thanks to Hillary Clinton, the CHIPS program has extended coverage to significant numbers of children whose parents are of limited means. The big health care expenditures go for care uninsured adults - many of whom gamble that they can beat the system. A central part of Clinton's plan is providing support for people who can't afford it - why wouldn't we require payment from those who could afford it?

Finally, we know that Obama knows or should know about health care. His wife works for U of Chicago Medical Center. Are his supporters aware that uninsured people who access care at that hospital are billed 300 % more than what insurers pay for their members. And when they can't pay it, collection agencies aggressively pursue payment from mostly inner city people of limited means. Meanwhile, his wife is paid $ 300,000 annually. I'm sure they like the system just the way it is. IT CERTAINLY WORKS FOR THEM!

For someone who wants everyone to believe that he's the frontrunner and who thinks that Clinton should just lay down and play dead, he and his minions -dare I say cultists - seem to be running scared. If they really believed that the nomination is a foregone conclusion why would he/they mount such an effort against her?

Her health care plan is the only one that makes sense. The majority of us are covered by employer group health plans - though more and more responsible people are paying privately for health insurance (as employers find ways to shed this expensive benefit. Don't his supporters realize (I know he does) that we all pay when people decide to forego insurance through higher taxes and higher premiums - these same high premiums that have caused employers to eliminate coverage. Mandates are the only way that health insurance costs will be reduced. Something else to consider, wages and raises get figured based on health insurance premiums. The more our employer pays for insurance, the less he pays us.

Finally, check out factcheck.org. he lied.

Chip: are you actually enjoying paying MY healthcare bills, because I do not have health insurance, and I don't HAVE to get it under obama?

Meanwhile, if Hillary is not elected and there is no MANDATED UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, this country is going bankrupt in the next 20 or so years, because of all of the rising rates of Alzheimer's Disease and Cancer and other catastrophic, long-term diseases, and the amount of persons with no healthcare at all......I guess that falls on YOU and others, once again, Chip......maybe you'll be paying for their medical bills as well........remember, we DON"T HAVE TO GET HEALTHCARE INSURANCE under obama.......

This is a truly pathetic hail Mary.

What a bi-polar flop this Clinton campaign has turned into.

Perhaps Obama is stammering in that interview because he knows about the upcoming press conference by Larry Sinclair and the allegations of his using crack cocaine in November 1999. Plus the evidence being presented.
whitehouse dot com

Look I am an African-American male and I would love to see a Black President, but only if he is honest and with experience.

I want the truth about Obama.
We deserve to know that's all.

Obama was stammering and bumbling through his "press conference." I think people forget what a lousy speaker he is without a teleprompter. Four years of that? Ugh.

She must be pouting because the media didn't go along with the Weather Underground story her campaign pushed against Obama (even though her husband pardoned a member of Weather Underground). Do we want a President who throws tantrums when things don't go their way? How sad. There are so many strong, smart women.

Mandate means to make mandatory....Geez people if it is mandated it is legally required like having car insurance. If something is mandated and you don't comply, you are in violation of the law. If you violate the law, you are penalized.
Her plan is mandated. So, rakari, my friend, Senator Obama is not misleading the public. AND these mailers have been out since Iowa and the Clinton campaign knew about them and screamed then also. Today's big "I am so outraged" bit was just as staged as a Broadway production.
However, after her "butter wouldn't melt in my mouth I am just so honored to be on the stage with Barack Obams, BS that she tossed last week, I can hardly wait to see how this week's debate goes.
As to NAFTA, well, if you dance with the devil don't be surprised if you get burned. She wanted to claim the Clinton Administration as her "bona fide" to experience but she only wants to claim the good parts of it...yeah, right....
If Hillary could put one honest, geniune day on the campaign trail it surely would be worth reporting.

Has anyone noticed that Obama agreeing with Hillary all the time during the debate, this way he can avoid debating her and maintain his lead. Debate is supposed to highlight differences so that voters can access. Also in his speeches he already wants people to sacrifice. Since the press hates hillary, he is having an easy time. Also he talks about he won't take money from special interests, who is Oprah, who is sponsoring a lot of his money, is she not special interest? Also how does he foot the bill for all of his big rallies.

What an incredible acting job on the part of Hillary Clinton. To pull out a political flier from weeks ago and make it out to be some big deal as if he had claimed she was the illegitimate daughter of *** Nixon or something. What does the flier actually say- not much?

It’s not like he accused her of pimping her daughter in Wisconsin- which she did.

It’s not like he accused her brother of getting paid to get people pardoned by her husband- all of which happened.

It’s not like he blamed her and her husband, because she was at ever cabinet meeting, for selling out the working people of the United States through NAFTA and by offer most favored Nation status to China- which is exactly what they did. Out sourcing started under Clinton not Bush.

I have to say "the lady doth protest too much."

It is up to the forth estate to set the record straight if they have the guts to face the Clinton attack machine.

Ironic for Hillary Clinton to shame anyone. In order to shame someone you have to understand and appreciate what shame is. The Clinton’s are devoid of shame. Shame is not a part of their ethical, moral or cultural lexicon.

Attack! Attack! Distract! Distract! That is the Clinton strategy. As for Karl Rove- yeah he learned everything from them. It is time for change we don’t need these people to lead this country.

20 years of Clinton’s and Bush’s is enough. We've all had enough of this garbage.

I saw Obama on CNN rebutting her comments. He was stuttering and hedging the whole time. I have never seen him so unpoised. It made me think twice about my support for him.

The time for final defeat is becoming closer everyday. After 11 defeats every single day more and more voters are moving toward Barak as shown in the polls and Hillary is under serious pressure and she has become mad and agressive, let us understand her mind status. She has not been able to manage her campaign, she will not be able to manage the Us Government or reverse the economic trends in the US.

What I really want to know is why the media is not chasing down Obama's claim about talking to the soldier who claims their platoon had get firearms from the Taliban. Now there's a story, a real whopper! But not a peep from the press.

Another free pass for Obama. What a discredit to the military and our country. Not to mention dangerous. Let's have a real conversation and some real jounalism about credibility. Now that's a change we could all believe in.

You Go, Hillary!!! obama is showing his as*, FINALLY. He doesn't talk about what he will do to make America better, he just uses dirty politics because he is getting desperate to win.
He can't talk about the issues that he would change because he has no answers.....isn't HE the one that said that "Democrats should be lifting people UP, not tearing them DOWN"----

obama is a course in CONTRADICTIONS. STOP TEARING OTHER DEMOCRATS DOWN, OBAMA, and start telling the American people exactly what you mean by the "CHANGE" you are going to make in this country. Sounds like obama would be MORE OF THE SAME----lies, smokescreens, contradictions, not being "transparent" with the American people......what do we KNOW about what kind of a President he would be, ANYWAY? He REFUSES TO DISCUSS HIMSELF IN SPECIFICS, because he KNOWS that people will see the real TRUTH, and his contradictions:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23276453

Hillary LISTENS to the American People.

Hillary answers QUESTIONS of audience members at rallys and Town Hall meetings.

Hillary's actions speak volumes LOUDER than obamas words--she was there at the State of the Black Union when no other candidate was. She CARES about the people of New Orleans and their lives.

Hillary cares about the voters and their voices in the states of Michigan and Florida, and no other candidate DID.

Hillary is the BEST CHOICE for PRESIDENT.

Dirty politics at it's best!! It is going to get even better. I can't wait for the Obama-McCain debates. All the slick talking in the world isn't going to help Obama. Obama supporters will eventually see the true meaning of being conned by a sheep in wolve's clothing.

I am yet to choose a candidate between the two of them. The fact that you wrote a book and it was published and you vetted the book before it was published means you agreed with the writings of the book. Secondly if the correction was made as asserted by Clinton, was it republished?

Why is Hillary so mad? Hillary said that she was right at her husbands side in every decision he made and this is what gives her the 'Presidential' experience over the other candidates.. Al Gore will testify to that. He made a comment about how she was really the 'Vice President'. Pres. Clinton signed NAFTA and most of the major corporations in USA left. Sounds like she helped with the unemployment of thousands here in the USA. Hillary wants change...I don't see change. Bush, Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush...Clinton???? This is not change!

Hillary is playing games again!

Obama is really playing dirty. He hides behind this facade of a squeeky clean politician, but, he has been overstating things in most cases. this got me when the mailer stated, "forces you to get healthcare even if you cannot afford it." this is the Democratic Party not the the Republican-let's-undermine-the-working-class Party. Obama is overstating and exaggerating and I hope the press can call him on it. And I don't know why the journalist in this article is so pro Obama. He is supposed to have a neutral point of view. He is to report, and not influence.

Go Hillary!
It is time for you to do the job that the shameful, fearful and corporate Press has refused to tackle; bring out Obama's dirty laundry, his record and lack thereof.

Go Hillary!
It is time for you to the job that the shameful,fearful and corporate Press has refused to tackle; bring out Obama's dirty laundry, his record and lack thereof.

Well, I guess Hillary got tired of waiting for the media to do their job. She's rolling up her sleeves and doing it for them.

At first glance, I thought Obama might be something special....until I started to research him myself. He's a phoney baloney.........an OBAMANATION.

I am a female who is sick and tired of Hillary crying foul evertime things aren't her way. I am sure if we look back at the race thus far we will see it is Hillary who has employed the tactics she is so put-off by. It is Hillary who has made this race negative. I certainly am looking forward to the day a woman becomes president, but I will NEVER vote for a woman who is constantly whining at every opportunity!

Regardless of whether she uses the word "boon" or "success" - her husband passed NAFTA into law and she supported it during his administration. PERIOD.