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Pro-Clinton Group Uses Edwards to Hit Obama
December 20, 2007 11:18 AM
ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: A key union backing New York Sen. Hillary Clinton -- the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (A.F.S.C.M.E.) -- is targeting Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Ill., health-care plan in a mailer to Iowa Democrats.
The A.F.S.C.M.E. mailer criticizes Obama's health-care plan as a "band-aid solution" that is "no change at all."
The interesting twist?
It quotes former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards -- not Clinton -- making the case that Obama's health-care plan would leave "as many as 15 million Americans" without coverage.
"He's been out there saying this. It made perfect sense to me," Ricky Teller, the AFSCME operative leading the union's independent expenditure, told ABC News.
Edwards and Clinton have both criticized Obama for proposing a plan that does not require all Americans to obtain health insurance.
But although Edwards is accurately quoted on the mailer, his campaign is objecting to the pro-Clinton group presenting its criticism of Obama in a way that makes it look like it came from an Edwards ally.
"It's fine to have an honest debate about policy," said Jennifer O'Malley Dillon, Edwards' Iowa state director, "but Iowans deserve better than planted questions and campaign fliers designed to fool them."
December 20, 2007 in Bush, George W. | Permalink | User Comments (8)
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"but Iowans deserve better than planted questions and campaign fliers designed to fool them." Why have over 1 million people viewed the video on Peter F. Paul vs Clintons lawsuit called "Hillary Uncensored"
Posted by: Greg | Dec 20, 2007 12:06:54 PM
So the "planted questions" - is that a reference to Obama or to Clinton?
I am getting so tired of all of this negative press coverage of Hillary. Can we see the media do their job and devote some attention and scrutinize her opponents? I do not know a single thing about Barack Obama's record as state legislator, nor has the press followed up about his missing and unavailable records.
Posted by: RGBC | Dec 20, 2007 2:13:35 PM
Why is the group not quoting Hillary instead of Edwards? This is the reason Hillary will not be democratic nominee; the old way of political destruction is over in America forever. We do not want to spend the next four years destroying ourselves; pitching one group against the other. It is high time these corrupt Clintons be removed from America politics. It is about time.
Posted by: Sam Lobey | Dec 20, 2007 3:07:29 PM
I see Hillary trying to get back to the White House and think about all the lying, police-state tactics, use of private investigators to gather dirt and wipe out her political opponents, abuse of power, Whitewater, Travelgate, and other scandals of the Clinton White House too numerous to mention. The thought of her at the helm is scary--very scary.
Before you cast your vote, please consider the following about the first Clinton co-presidency:
• The Clintons were more concerned about what they could get from the presidency instead of honoring their responsibilities to this country. At the end of their term they were multi-millionaires. Ever wonder how they got so wealthy?
• Think about how they sold our military secrets, how they exchanged pardons for Puerto Rican votes in New York, freeing some of the worst criminals just so Hillary could have what she thinks she is entitled to. Will our democracy survive another four years of them?
• Hillary loves to play the victim--of Bill, of the Republican vast right-wing conspiracy, of all the Bimbos who sleep with Bill, etc. Can a victim be an effective president?
• Hillary's long-suffering marriage to Bill, enabling him to have numerous sexual trysts -- not just a one-time dalliance with Monica -- results in her sense of entitlement. Do we want a president who feels the job is rightfully hers just because she's suffered through 35 years of marriage to Bill?
• Hillary claims to be tough enough to play with the boys when, in fact, she is unable to leave a cheating husband. How will she stand up to other men who walk all over her?
• Hillary attacks her opponents with lies and innuendo far more than she talks about how she would attempt to cure America's ills. What is her plan...does she even have one?
• Hillary has no experience. Being married to a president does not make one qualified to be president. As a married woman, I cannot relate to a woman who stays in a sick marriage so she can capitalize on her husband's success, then pretend she did it on her own. She gives no specifics about her experience. More dodging accountability.
• Fact: She's held elected office for one Senate term and has introduced no major legislation during that time. Is this the kind of experience we want in the Oval Office?
Hillary is not what she pretends to be. She is spinning her image -- the same tactics Bill used on an unsuspecting American people the first time around. We should be smarter than that now. Do we really want them in the White House again?
Cast your vote wisely in 2008.
Posted by: Denise | Dec 20, 2007 8:31:47 PM
Denise is right on point. Hillary campain is full of red herrings such as her 35 years of experience, to disguise the fact that she has no true accomplishments of her own that qualifies her to be present. In everything she proposes she gives no specifics about her plans to accomplish her ideas. I guess she feels that she only needs to promise Americans the moon to get to the white house. For that reason she is definitely not the president this country needs. I'm sorry but your name and your false promises don't cut it for me.
Anybody but Clinton in 08
Posted by: Bob | Dec 21, 2007 2:08:25 AM
OK! NOW ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, OBAMA HUSSIN HAS IN FACT SAID HE CAN NOT GET HIS RECORDS
COME ON NOW ! AND HE HAS BEEN NIT PICKING HILLARY ABOUT HERS? DOUBLE TALK STANDARD IF YOU ASK ME, AND WHAT ABOUT HIS TWO WEB SITES ATTACKING HER/WHAT ABOUT HIS PRESENT VOTES? AND YES WHAT ABOUT HIS TELLING THE FOLKS HE WILL PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ALL OF THE FOLKS? THAT IS A LIE HE SHOULD OF NOT BEEN SAYING AT ALL, AND TO START OFF WITH HE WAS THE ONE ATTACKING HER! MY GOD IN A MOUNTAIN WHY DON"T THE MEDIA BRING THIS ALL OUT? SHE IS THE VERY BEST RUNNING
Posted by: pearlruth | Dec 21, 2007 7:41:20 PM
OH I AM SO MAD! I WENT TO CA. NEWSPAPER AND I WONDERED WHY HER POLL WAS DOWN BUT I SOON FOUND OUT WHY,THE MEDIA THEIR IS THE SAME AS ON HERE-GO FIGURE-THEY WANT OBAMA IN SO THE GOP CAN TEAR HIM APART-WOULD SERVE HIM RIGHT FOR ATTACKING HILLARY THE WAY HE DOES
Posted by: pearlruth | Dec 21, 2007 7:50:25 PM
Hillerys record speaks for it's self. Any one that thinks that Hillery gives a rats ### about anyone but herself ought to google the white water scandal Back then she didn't seem to care who took the fall. How can she be trusted? She has no code of honor as far as I am concerned.This leopard did not change her spots.She accepted campaign funds from a fugitive, just this year!!!
Posted by: DF | Jan 14, 2008 2:48:36 PM
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