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Obama Slams Clinton for Nevada Mailer
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ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Senator Barack Obama slammed Sen. Hillary Clinton Wednesday for sending out fliers to Navadans that he said misstates his health care plan and position on social security.
The Obama campaign supplied reporters with a copy of the Clinton campaign mailer, that reads: "We need a President that will help hard working families keep more of what they earn."
Inside the mailer are contrast images of Clinton and Obama. "Barack Obama. A plan with a trillion dollar tax increase on America's hard-working families," it reads, "Hillary Clinton. A blueprint to rebuild the road to middle-class prosperity."
At a campaign event at a convention center in a Las Vegas suburb Wednesday, Obama chided Clinton for sending out the mailer.
"Some of you may have been getting these, a flier lately from Senator Clinton’s camp that says that they are gonna solve Social Security just by showing fiscal responsibility and 'Obama is going to initiate a trillion dollar tax cut (sic) on hard working families,'", Obama told the crowd, "I want to be clear about what the social security debate is ... we don't have an immediate crisis, but we do have a long term problem."
(Later the campaign said Obama misspoke, that he meant to accuse Clinton of accusing him of a tax increase -- not a tax cut.)
Obama said his plan would bolster social security coffers by removing the current cap on the very highest of earners -- not a general tax raise implied by the Clinton mailer.
"This is what I proposed, this is what Senator Clinton is calling a trillion dollars on hard working Americans. Now maybe she thinks that the top 3 percent of the population is the average, middle class America. It is not. Just so you’re clear. So if you get that flier, I just want to make sure that everybody understands what my plan is."
Obama continued to jab at Clinton's social security stance, reminding Nevadans about what Iowa voter and Obama supporter Tod Bowman said Clinton told him about her plan for social security.
“What’s worse is, Senator Clinton, when she was on a rope line in Iowa, somebody asked her about this, she proposed the same, she said she’d be open to the same plan that I just offer. But now is sending out a flier calling this a trillion dollar tax cut. I want to make clear that everybody understands that, he said.
Clinton responding to Obama Wednesday, telling reporters she believes Obama's plan for social security would amount to a "one trillion dollar tax increase".
"We need to focus on solutions that don't increase the tax burden on middle class families," Clinton said.
January 16, 2008 in Bush, George W., Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (25)
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I am tired of smashmouth clintonian politics. I hope Nevadans stand up for change and support Obama or Edwards. We would be better served to have these two candidates represent the party and lead the nation.
Posted by: geoff | Jan 17, 2008 12:54:21 AM
In CA,an income of 97,000 a year is not upper middle class. It is just middle class period. Police officers and fire fighters with a few years of experience would earn this much in many CA cities. The 1 trillion dollar tax increase was the figure first mentioned in a Wall Street Journal editorial a few months ago when the plan to raise the SS cap for tax purpose was first proposed. Obama, for all of his rhetoric, is basically a candidate way out on the left field of American politics. Every American presidential election so far as been won by candidates occupying the center, and Obama won't win in a general election on account of his extreme left position on taxes and spending.
Posted by: Notasnaive | Jan 17, 2008 2:09:03 AM
WE KNOW ALL YOUR DIRTY TRICKS hILLARY cLINTON.
People are tired of your lies.
President Obama will be sworn into office!!!
Posted by: Rubiconski | Jan 17, 2008 4:24:20 AM
mark, would you want a person who would not say the pledge alligance to the USA, or who would not stand at attention ,hold his hand over his heart when MY national athem is played. I dont
Posted by: jack | Jan 17, 2008 9:38:28 AM
At the end of the article: I find it amusing that when Clinton is called on her lies and is set straight with FACTS, she goes ahead and ignores it, and simply restates the earlier refuted LIE. And the media simply matter of factly reports her restatement - ho hum? Jesus, the press sucks.
The Clintons (and other politicians) play you guys (the media) like a fiddle. Stop being E-Entertainment reporters and start being JOURNALISTS again! Stop using FactCheck.org as a "cover" for your incompetence. Every single mainstream journalist should be "fact checking" and calling out these politicians right then and there when they make the misstatement, blunder, or lie. And for the love of god, stop just reporting "statements" like Clinton's at the end of this article as if that's "the end of the story."
Posted by: Michael D. Hafer | Jan 17, 2008 1:57:35 PM
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