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Clinton Delivers Scripted Attacks Against McCain
May 17, 2008 6:46 PM
ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Reading from a lectern in Frankfurt, Ky., Sen. Hillary Clinton made attacks against the presumptive Republican nominee, point by point. Clinton glanced back and forth between her notes as she slammed Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for his plan concerning the home foreclosure crisis and his economic plan as a whole.
"In the end, Sen. McCain’s economic policy boils down to this: Don’t just continue driving our nation in the wrong direction. Put your foot on the accelerator and gun it."
Clinton went through several points about why McCain’s ideas were wrong. She said, "You really have to work hard to have a tax plan that is more tilted toward the wealthy than President Bush’s tax plan, but somehow John McCain has figured out a way to do it."
Clinton continued to say that she was right about the housing crisis from the beginning, while McCain just attacked Clinton and her colleagues.
"Like President Bush, Sen. McCain refused to acknowledge the home mortgage crisis until it spiraled out of control. He has spent his time blaming homeowners and criticizing Democrats like me for trying to find solutions. Well, I’ve been saying for more than a year we had to try to find a solution to the home mortgage crisis."
Clinton accused McCain of not understanding the problems of the American people, saying he was out of touch, a similar attack she made about Sen. Barack Obama weeks ago.
"So Sen. McCain sees millions of Americans who are working two jobs to get by, holding their breath at the gas pump and at the supermarket checkout line, worried about the mortgage, the tuition bills, the doctors’ bills, working to save for retirement. [They’re] making a living out of a fixed income that is getting more and more eaten away by all of these increased expenses. And Sen. McCain decided that America’s most pressing economic priority is to cut taxes for our largest corporations. I don’t know that you can be more out of touch than that."
Clinton generally has been abstaining from attacking her Democratic rival, instead focusing on President Bush, and today John McCain. Clinton has been crossing Kentucky -- with less of a focus on rallies -- but more unusual stops including visiting a whiskey distillery and a street fair.
May 17, 2008 in Bush, George W. | Permalink | User Comments (94)
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Hillary is all about fighting McCain and yet some of her "strong" supporters say they'll vote for him if Hillary can't win the nomination!
What a shameless betrayal of Hillary's fight that would be!
Incredible...
Posted by: marian | May 17, 2008 7:02:21 PM
Hillary is fighting the good fight.
but Women are waking up to the realization that if we don't confront the rampant woman-bashing of the MSM, Obama campaign and supporters...
we all lose in the end
4 years of McCain + a democratic congress with a Senate led by Hillary will be just fine with us
Posted by: Linda, OKC | May 17, 2008 7:07:59 PM
Go Hillary. We support you. Yes, if Hillary isn't on the ballot it will be McCain for me. That is because I see Obama for what he is, a Fraud and far more danergous to the country then any republican (including Bush).
Posted by: Bill | May 17, 2008 7:10:00 PM
Everything these politicians do is scripted. Don't forget McCain several months back being at a loss for words when his teleprompter malfunctioned. Just shows how phony these power mongers are.
Posted by: huh | May 17, 2008 7:15:50 PM
Finally Sen, Clinton offers her vision on how she is different from McCain and how she plans to beat him in November. It might be too late but she still needs to put her voice forward!
Posted by: Jim | May 17, 2008 7:21:36 PM
why cant hillary supporters understand obama beat her fair and square even with Michigan and florida delgates counted he still wins. So why not support obama, why not support the party.
Posted by: Scott | May 17, 2008 7:49:18 PM
SO WHAT, with the schedule all these politcians have, they need to read scripted speaches sometimes.
I'm for Obama-he does it
I like Hillary-she does it
McCain-should do it more often
*the way you attack every word, I would be slowly speaking and thinking at the same time too*
I'd like to see some of you keyboard warriors try it haha
Posted by: please | May 17, 2008 7:57:21 PM
trettin, I would much rather have Jimmy Carter over Mc any day.
Posted by: irma | May 17, 2008 8:50:15 PM
Don't worry Dem in Chicago, we're voting Hillary all the way.....
Posted by: irma | May 17, 2008 8:51:57 PM
If not Clinton then McCain. So it looks like President McCain.
Why not support the party? Because the "party" is run by leftwing anti-war lunatics who hate Israel. Plus obama is an incompetent arrogant boob with an angry ungrateful racist wife. any other questions?
Posted by: geevill | May 17, 2008 8:59:26 PM
I'm happy that so many Hillary supporters never give up on her just as she never gives up her fight for her political dreams. Yes, we'll be voting for Hillary all the way. Democratic party, you'll lose in the GE because you want to choose the loser Obama. He really makes me sick in many ways. A top hypocrit from day one!
Posted by: Cindy | May 17, 2008 9:12:39 PM
No one should vote for McCain if their choice for the nomination doesn't make it. I would never vote for the republican no matter who it was. Republicans have shown that they are like robots who have to be told what their vote should be. They have shown no honor or integrity to stand up for the country's people. That is why people are fed up with them. War mongering McCain is a mean bully who has a fit if he doesn't get his way. I don't think we need another Bush in the whitehouse.
Posted by: Vicki | May 17, 2008 9:14:47 PM
Hillary "supporters" that vote for the Republican party that has tried to destroy her and Bill as long as the Clintons have serviced their country are the dumbest sheep that ever set foot on American soil.
Just ask Hillary what she thinks of you...
Posted by: harriet | May 17, 2008 9:28:40 PM
harriet, Obama supporters are like Obama himself, they just stay in the surface and don't go to the point. Why should we nominate him if his appeal is so limited?
Can you read my post right before yours?
Posted by: robin | May 17, 2008 9:33:44 PM
Hillary told her supporters that it would be a "grave mistake" to choose McCain over Obama if she wouldn't get the nomination. As my loyalty to Hillary means a lot to me, I'll vote for Obama if he's on ticket. I find it difficult to believe anyone who is truly committed to Hillary's heroic fight for a better America would vote for the party and ideas she has been fighting AGAINST all of her life. In my book that is called treason, and nothing else. Hillary would be both very sad and furious about it. I still haven't lost hope though that Hillary WILL be on the ballot after counting Florida and Michigan. We need a Madame President after the GOP disaster!
Posted by: Harald | May 17, 2008 9:38:04 PM
Harald,
Are you talking about treason? Isn't that what the DNC has done to Hillary? The DNC is disowning her and the core democratic constituents when it tries to hand the nomination to a man that made a slim lead by winning red caucus states and cannot seal the deal with the battleground
states. How can you ignore the many millions of people that consider her a stronger candidate? I feel betrayed by the Democratic Party.
Posted by: robin | May 17, 2008 9:51:45 PM
A bunch of bad one-liners is not a platform.
Posted by: Neo Politicus | May 17, 2008 9:58:28 PM
By show of hands, how many people are tired of Eloise Harper's coverage of Clinton? HAND UP.
Posted by: Tony | May 17, 2008 10:02:52 PM
robin hillary isnt in the lead in one single category
when and if they count fl and mi then maybe she will end up ahead in popular vote...by 30k
so 3 out of 4 categories would be considered a loss to you?
and if he wins 4 out of 4 like he is now, you would consider him a winner?
lol
ps al gore lost with the popular vote. the popular vote means nothing. Hillary knows she has basically a 1 in a million shot that she wins the rest of the primaries by 90% and gets 90% of the rest of the super delegates
that is the only way she wins....its been over since before pennsylvania
although for awhile it looked like she might have a shot until she failed to perform in indiana and north carolina.
Posted by: bhrandon | May 17, 2008 10:13:47 PM
I agree with Harald. And at Hillary's blog I noticed as well how McCain supporters infiltrated her site as fake supporters who time and again will tell you that they'll be glad to vote for McCain in November.
For those who have supported Hillary all the way, and her Universal Health Care plan, her withdrawal plans for Iraq, her tax reforms etc., her stand on Roe vs Wade etc etc that is simply and totally RIDICULOUS.
It would be the destruction of everything Hillary fought such a tough a long campaign for. It would be cruel and mean: Hillary hatred instead of support!
If SHE would decide to support Obama, I will do so as well. I refuse to give up my support to her stands on the issues and the election itself as soon as she would have to decide to end her campaign. Hillary's fight goes on!!! And we may not like Obama very much, but in comparison to McCain HE is in Hillary's camp, on the Democrats side! They share many ideas on America's future, as lmuch as they differ in style and personality.
This is the way Hillary sees it, the way I see it, and I refuse to buy any argument against Obama that would be STRONGER than all the arguments (= her whole set of ideas and policies) Hillary has against McCain and the GOP, and always has had.
If you're a REAL Hillary supporter, pay attention to what Hillary asks you to do if she, God forbid, would not get the nomination. Hillary is wise, folks, MUCH wiser than you. Wouldn't you agree on that, as her supporters? I'm SURE of it.
YOU may be ready to accept 4 years of McCain, but the people Hillary fought for so hard CAN NOT AFFORD 4 more years of desastrous GOP policies! They're going under! So DON'T be so selfish and think of the ISSUES, think of the poor and forgotten Americans, think of struggling middle classes, the millions without health care, think of everything Hillary FIGHTS for! As she said so often, she does NOT fight for herself, she fights for the PEOPLE out there who SUFFER under a immoral Republican administration! ENDING the GOP rule in America is Hillary's MAIN drive!
I'm getting SICK of her supporters, if they ARE real supporters, who are prepared to vote for the dumb old sexist lobbyist friend and warmonger McCain! How naive, how selfish can people get?!?! Shame on you!
Hillary, please help us out of this mess!!
Posted by: harriet | May 17, 2008 10:19:40 PM
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