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Clinton Again Compares Obama to Bush
April 05, 2008 7:55 PM
ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Speaking in Eugene, Ore., Sen. Hillary Clinton went further than she has before drawing a comparison between Sen. Barack Obama and President Bush, saying he gave a lot of "speeches" too, but lacked "specifics."
"Some of you might may remember that President Bush in 2000 ran as a compassionate conservative. It sounded great. Who could argue with that?" she said. "I never knew what it meant. He sure didn’t enlighten us about what it meant. But he gave a lot of speeches about how he was going to be a compassionate conservative. Well, because we didn’t have the specifics to tie him down because we didn’t say 'What exactly does that mean?' It turns out he was neither compassionate nor conservative. He was uncompassionate and radical."
When Clinton was asked about her Iraq war vote, she defended herself by saying that she was critical of the war before Obama was, and that she was the one who made a decision.
"When you want to compare, compare decisions, so when Sen. Obama came to the Senate he and I have voted exactly the same except for one vote. And that happens to be the facts," she said. "We both voted against early deadlines. I actually starting criticizing the war in Iraq before he did. So I’m well aware that his entire campaign is premised on a speech he made in 2002 and I give him credit for making that speech, but that was not a decision. And I think it is fair to say as he said in 2004 he wasn’t sure how he would have actually voted had he had to cast a vote. I think we ought to be as fair and accurate in comparing apples to apples about various records and decisions."
In what may be a sign of the wear and tear the campaign is taking on Clinton, it appears as though she is not getting much sleep. She said she is averaging about three hours a night.
"I wouldn’t be getting up at 5 a.m. and going to bed at 2 a.m. if I didn’t believe I would be the better candidate to beat John McCain," Clinton said to a cheering crowd.
April 5, 2008 in Bush, George W. | Permalink | User Comments (185)
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Desperate woman!
Posted by: Thinking | Apr 5, 2008 8:05:47 PM
Very desperate woman indeed!
No doubt both bush and Hilary wish they could give as good a speech as Obama
Posted by: New Yorker | Apr 5, 2008 8:09:06 PM
I agreed with Hillary's comparison, this year like with Bush in 200o or the war in Iraq the press and media has giving us a disservice, back then the target was Gore and with the war they were scared to ask question, now the target is the Clintons and they are scared of asking Obama the hard questions, they don't want to be seen like racist.
99% of the coverage on Clinton are their mistakes and flops; while only get is the positive coverage on Obama.
Shame!
Posted by: Tom _Chicago | Apr 5, 2008 8:09:08 PM
Seems that Hillary gave a lot of speeches too, and where is she at? Behind Obama.
Posted by: Thinking | Apr 5, 2008 8:11:28 PM
With the rhetoric dialing down a little bit of late, I'd hoped this kind of bull pucky was over. However, it is clear that in her desperation, Hillabeans will do just about everything.
Comparing ANY Democrat to Bush is sacriligious! I hope the thinking voters will agree!
Obama 2008 -- Yes, WE CAN!!!
Posted by: Jackt51 | Apr 5, 2008 8:12:35 PM
She absolutly right. No one is asking who Barack is. But here is some insight into who he associates with. Remember his shady house deal? Rezko, who was bankrupt at the time, had his wife purchase the lot next door even though she didn't have the income to support such a transaction. So where did the money come from and why on earth would Barack purchase something he couldn't afford? Why would we want him as the steward of our economy? And who does he associate with. Here's a clue....
Several US political fundraisers are currently on trial for corruption in connection with loans received from Auchi. Auchi is currently barred from entering the US.
Nadhmi Auchi was viewed with a lot of suspicion by the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein's regime, regarding him as a front-man for Saddam's intelligence service.[4] Auchi was involved in several multi-billion dollar business deals in the post-Saddam era too, such as the Orascom mobile phone network (IraqNa), and at least one power generation contract involving Chicago-based tycoon Antoin Rezko and Iraq's former Minister of Electricity, Aiham Alsamarrae, who has been convicted over corruption charges in Iraq and is now living in Chicago.
There's your change you can believe in.....Wright.
Posted by: SadStateOfAffairs | Apr 5, 2008 8:12:46 PM
I think that Hillary is throwing away everything. If she can't be President then she doesn't want to be anything. Certainly the VP spot is out, and likely she will not complete her term in the Senate
Posted by: Thinking | Apr 5, 2008 8:16:59 PM
Is she saying that Obama is tryin to inherit the presidency like the previous guy?
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Apr 5, 2008 8:18:51 PM
Hillary is right on!!! If obama was truely against the war he would not vote to fund it period. Plus his uniter not a divider speech, thats classic Bush speech, seems to be working for obama. See the trend? He lacks the experience, the judgement. If Hillary voted no on the war N.Y. would have been real pissed. They seem to agree with her, she won her state. Now everyone knows the truth on the war, she is going to fix it.
Posted by: D | Apr 5, 2008 8:19:18 PM
Is she saying that Obama is a compassionate Conservative?
Posted by: Thinking | Apr 5, 2008 8:22:58 PM
Bills earns from his blah=blah-blah speaches. And she likes it.
Posted by: Linda,Fl | Apr 5, 2008 8:25:02 PM
All HRC does is destroy Obama, tell lies and ask her advisers to wink at the foreign govt. and then turn it against Obama. I think she should step down and stop destroying our democracy.
Posted by: Ton | Apr 5, 2008 8:26:53 PM
And another story she speaks of is discredited - the story of the poor, pregant woman who was turned away...another lie - like running from the snipers!
Just like the stories she will be telling if she gets elected, no doubt!
And now she is comparing herself to him, gasp! But if he isn't good enough then why do that?
And still trying to switch the delegates votes, and get the rule breaker states to get their voices heard. In my world, everyone is a winner, there will be no losers!
Give it up HRC, you are looking more and more like the person who will do anything to get elected.
Posted by: jozy | Apr 5, 2008 8:29:48 PM
"Compairs"?
Come on ABC. I'm used to illiterates on these comment pages. Surely your reporters actually speak and write English.
Can't you afford a dictionary?
Posted by: S Johnson | Apr 5, 2008 8:30:40 PM
Obama is even worst than Bush.
Bush was at least the successful Governor of Texas. Bush had more credentials befitting that of the President of the United States.
Noone will ever question the patriotism of George Bush.
Noone will ever question the patriotism of Laura Bush ...
Obama is far worst than Bush ..
Posted by: NoComparison | Apr 5, 2008 8:33:44 PM
Hey NoComparison -
Why are you people who have absolulity no idea of what experience or quailifications are necessary to run for the presidency suddenly the experts?
I suppose that JFK's bootlegger daddy who made his fortune from illegal activities gave him the credentials?
Give me a break -
Posted by: jozy | Apr 5, 2008 8:36:34 PM
I kind of like the story that Obama told about the soldiers that were stealing Taliban weapons because they didn't have any of their own.
Posted by: JY | Apr 5, 2008 8:37:27 PM
@NoObama....
Interesting... what about the basket ball throw that went into the basket the very first time -
All HRC does is destroy Obama, tell lies and ask her advisers to wink at the foreign govt. and then turn it against Obama.
Does it not bother you that rather than talk policies and how this economy will be turned around, we are here smearing people? Does it not bother you that in february we lost 65,000 jobs and forfeited 80,000 jobs in March? does it not bother you that people are loosing their homes and the economy is going into a recession? In what way will Obama bashing and Clinton smearing help... We spend hours and days bashing these people and yet after that these issues are still there. I think what we ought to do in these blogs is look into the policies of these people, do the research and then make a decision to support a candidate.
Oh!!! btw: I am an informed conservative republican. I don't follow the MSM or talk show hosts hook, line and sinking.
Posted by: Ton | Apr 5, 2008 8:42:37 PM
We know this much about Obama: He started running for President before his first Senate term was finished. He has had a 17-year relationship with Rezko whose trial has yet to be completed. He has written untruths in his books about when and how his mother and father married. He was untruthful when he tried to drammatize how his father came to this country with help from John Kennedy. He plaigiarized "his" famous "words" speech, a speech already given by Deval Patrick. He has lied about the sources of his campaign money. He had a shady deal with Rezko and his wife to buy his home and adjacent property, and continues to lie about it. He has had a 20-year relationship with his pastor, friend, and spiritual advisor who has thousands of words with ranting and raving hatred sermons condemning America and "damning" America. That is just the surface. He had a lot of audacity to run when he had so little experience, but, we know that people like Kerry and Kennedy urged him to run. They think that the American voter will follow their lead. Not this time. We have seen a great lack of wisdom and experience in his words and decisions. We have seen too much double talk in the debates, his speeches, and his decisions.
Without the news media living up to good journalistic ethics, while blasting Hillary Clinton at every turn, we appear to find most of what we know about him by accident. If only he had not resorted to the Republican playbook in one of the first debates with Hillary and Edwards by saying Hillary was "untrustworthy", he might have appeared to be an honest person. His call for change and unity and bringing everyone together are just soundbites. That much we know, and he has cooked his own goose.
Posted by: georgia | Apr 5, 2008 8:44:49 PM
Face the truth Hillary fans!
The democratic party has been hijacked by progressive (liberal) minorities. With their friends in the media, your poor candidate didn't have a chance. Honestly now, which alternative best suits your political disposition? Moderate republicans or elitist democrats bent on socializing the world.
Think hard!
Posted by: Surelock Homes | Apr 5, 2008 8:47:34 PM
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