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Clinton Furious Over Mailers: 'Shame on You Barack Obama'
February 23, 2008 3:32 PM
ABC's Eloise Harper reports: Sen. Hillary Clinton came to speak to reporters holding two mailers in her hand, visibly angry and animated. They are mailers that have been circulated before -- one mailer reminiscent of the "Harry and Louise" ads that ran in the early '90s, and another mailer quoting Clinton saying that NAFTA was a “boon.”
The New York senator said to reporters, as she waved the mailers back and forth, that she wanted to “express [her] deep disappointment that [Sen. Obama] is continuing to send false and discredited mailings with information that is not true to the voters of Ohio. He says one thing in speeches and then turns around and does this.” She continued, “He continues to spend a million dollars perpetuating falsehoods that is not the new politics the speeches are about. It is not hopeful, it is destructive.”
Clinton then directly addressed Sen. Obama for his actions, saying “So shame on you Barack Obama. It is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. That is what I expect from you. Meet me in Ohio. Let's have a debate about your tactics and your behavior in this campaign.”
She continued to scold Obama saying, “These attacks on what we tried to do the last time we went after universal health care is the worst kind of politics. Number one, it is wrong and untrue and number two it is exactly the talking points the health insurance industry used on a daily basis. Sen. Obama knows that it is not true that my plan forces people to buy insurance even if they cant afford it.”
Clinton went after Obama’s speeches in a harsher way that she has before. “Time and time again you hear one thing in speeches and then you see a campaign that has the worst kind of tactics reminiscent of the same sort of Republican attacks on Democrats. Well I am here to say that it is not only wrong but it is undermining core Democratic principles.”
Are the mailings a reflection of Obama’s character? she was asked. Clinton did not directly answer the question, but said, “Sen. Obama knows, or should know, since he is paying for it, that these two mailings are false, they are false. We have discredited them, they have blanketed the states between Super Tuesday and today with these false misleading discredited mailings, so answer your question. I would if it were brought to my attention, say, wait a minute we shouldn’t be doing this and we shouldn’t.”
Clinton was asked if it was fair to ask her about NAFTA because it is attached to her husband’s legacy. Clinton noted, "It wasn’t negotiated by him, it was negotiated by the first Pres. Bush, it was passed and signed into law. And I have been a critic of NAFTA for years. As a senator I have raised questions about NAFTA, long before Sen. Obama started running for president.”
ABC's Sunlen Miller also reports: The Obama campaign has issued a response, via a paper statement by Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton:
“Everything in those mailers is completely accurate, unlike the discredited attacks from Hillary Clinton’s negative campaign that have been rejected in South Carolina, Wisconsin, and across America. We look forward to having a debate this Tuesday on the facts, and the facts are that Senator Clinton was a supporter of NAFTA and the China permanent trade treaties until this campaign began. And she herself has said that under the Clinton health care plan, she would consider 'going after the wages' of Americans who don't purchase health insurance, whether they can afford it or not.”
February 23, 2008 in Bush, George W. | Permalink | User Comments (310)
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Hillary is too nice to Obama and also too weak to attack him. I really don't undertand why she didn't attack him more on the Texas debate. Obama attakced him falsely many times but the whole world think that Hillary attacked Obama falsely.
Posted by: Judy | Feb 23, 2008 1:44:23 PM
The drumbeats by the conservative commentators like Bill Bennet may have more material on Michelle Obama for next week after her Princeton thesis which was supposed to be sealed until November reveals her thoughts on Black-White race relation.
Michelle Obama's "For the first time in my adult lifetime I am really proud of my country", may "fire up and ready to go" those reluctant conservatives to vote for war hero John McCain.
The Cindy McCain incident is also an example of how the Republicans will use Michelle Obama statement to motivate their conservative base with 30 seconds commercials.
Now, we have Michelle Obama' Princeton thesis may give those conservatives more ammunition with excerpt like the following:
“I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second,”
Posted by: Angel | Feb 23, 2008 1:48:06 PM
Hillary failed to note that NAFTA was SIGNED AND PASSED INTO LAW BY BILL CLINTON and that she spoke in support of it many times!
More proof of lack of judgement on her behalf,...
Posted by: eXcellente360 | Feb 23, 2008 1:53:25 PM
She is coming across schizoid, especially in contrast to the high road she took when she was face to face with him last Thursday night. Does this mean she will go on the attack Tuesday? If so, she will just come across even more schizoid. She must be really irate over the WashPost article this morning, or might have just been briefed on a tracking poll in either TX or OH that wasn't good news.
Posted by: dan | Feb 23, 2008 1:53:28 PM
The truth hurts doesn't it? Did you think people would forget your part in NAFTA?
Posted by: Patriot2008 | Feb 23, 2008 1:56:46 PM
Hillary is the best person for the Presidency. The Republicans want to run against Obama because they feel he would be easier to run against in the general election, so they keep going into our primaries to vote for Obama. That's the only reason he's winning. Obama is also copying the Republicans with his negative shananigans against Hillary. I don't call that Change, copying smear techniques from the Republicans. Wake up Democrats, and vote for Hillary.
Posted by: Doreen, Buffalo Grove, IL | Feb 23, 2008 1:57:37 PM
“I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances under which I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second,”
All the Latino's,.Asians,.Blacks,.Gay's,..and some women will rally behind her in agreement!
Posted by: eXcellente360 | Feb 23, 2008 1:57:54 PM
No matter what comes out on the other candidates I will NEVER vote for S&L McCain.
Posted by: Patriot2008 | Feb 23, 2008 1:58:19 PM
I am sick of Barak Obama. He is no different, and in many ways worse, than those he accuses of being "old politics".
When are his supporters going to see him for what he is? Maybe it would help if the media put this story on the front page instead of a political blog. The American people need to know about this man before it is too late.
Pay attention America - he said in the Thursday debate that it is silly to think his supporters are somehow being "duped". No it is not silly - they are being duped by him and his slimy campaign. He says one thing in debates and speeches and runs his campaign just the opposite.
Media chased John Edwards from this campaign. Please, please report these stories where all Americans can see or read them. This election is too important. Maybe the lead on ABCnews.com should be this story instead of gloom and doom in Hillaryland.
Posted by: Kris | Feb 23, 2008 1:59:28 PM
Too funny. A 60 year old woman having a temper tantrum.
She gonna do that with Putin?
Why don't ya'll research Bill and Hillary about Monsanto?
NAFTA was signed by Bill.
Was WACO another Whitehouse tantrum?
Posted by: JB | Feb 23, 2008 2:00:19 PM
Tantrums, tantrums.. I am weeeeely upset!
Facts: Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law, on many public occasions Hillary has praised NAFTA.
Facts: On her health care plan Hillary requires individual and family mandates. She admitted on ABC news interview with Stephanopolous that she would garnish wages.
Posted by: Bill R. | Feb 23, 2008 2:06:08 PM
OK does she love him or hate him? Or is it that she will say anything to get elected? Oh, it's Hillary Clinton speaking. Silly me, sorry for wasting your time.
Posted by: bob10001 | Feb 23, 2008 2:08:00 PM
You know, I think Hillary will take Obama's butt to the Hoops this time, also, better a tantrum than that incessant whining from Obama and his supporters everytime he is questioned about something. Hillary has a right to be angry, Obama has used this tactic over and over again. As far as Hillary's war vote - yeah, she did vote for it but Obama voted to fund it!!! He might want to take a page from Dennis Kucinith's playbook - like standing by his principles. How hypocritical can you be?????
Posted by: LeeLee07 | Feb 23, 2008 2:16:30 PM
And if he does that one more time, I'll fix him: I'll cry again.
Posted by: Randle Bate | Feb 23, 2008 2:23:40 PM
Hillary is acting like a child. This whole campaign she has criticized Obama and his campaign as being some fairy tale with no substance while she sits there and spouts crap that she was coached to say that every politician says. NAFTA came about during the Clinton administration and if she is gonna ride good sentiment from those times then maybe she should take accountability for what happened then, or the fact that really Clinton did little and just let problems pile up. I don't understand why anyone would vote for her, listen to her in the debates, she rarely answers questions and then turns it into a speech about how great she thinks her health care plan is meanwhile interrupting Obama when he responds to her allegations. Perhaps Americans should listen to someone who says stuff with validity instead of who talks the loudest.
Posted by: Ben | Feb 23, 2008 2:23:53 PM
She wants attention, she can't get it any other way.
Posted by: Sallie | Feb 23, 2008 2:28:58 PM
Guys-First--I was a hillary supporter and even caucused for her in IOWA--lucky she did not win as I would be crying now-understand this is DO or DIE for clintons--In IOWA I personally received false allegations of Barack Muslim ties--but Obamas team handled in maturely--this woman scares me to be president?did anyone notice the guy who was standing next to her!!I feel so sorry for bill clinton--under the hands of this woman!!hillary is done--she now needs to stop ripping the party apart--it's time she stepped down and went for a vacation!!she's gonna go nuts!!I'm not sure if anyone will be proud to support this campaign and how it has been run!!
Posted by: Dave | Feb 23, 2008 2:30:34 PM
CLAWS are coming out....again....and that is the real Hillary not the one she acted to be in last week's debate closing..that again by xeroxing Edward's and her husband's lines.
Fliers she is complaining about are as tru as facts..on NAFTA ..and..forced-helathcare
Posted by: moeen | Feb 23, 2008 2:33:31 PM
Two days ago she was honored to be at the same debate with Obama, and today she things he's run a shameful campaign. Guess she didn't find her voice yet.
It's like watching her campaign staffers - some devils and some angels - battle for her soul.
Posted by: Paul | Feb 23, 2008 2:37:19 PM
She'll fix Obama for this: she'll cry again.
Posted by: Randle Bate | Feb 23, 2008 2:38:37 PM
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