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Clinton to Obama: 'Shame on you'
A visibly angry Sen. Hillary Clinton lashed out Saturday at Sen. Barack Obama over campaign literature that she said he knows is "blatantly false."
Clinton jabbed the air with her hands as she told a crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio, that two Obama mailings spread lies about her positions on universal health care and the North American Free Trade Agreement.
"Shame on you, Barack Obama," she said.
Polls show Clinton and Obama are in statistical dead heats in delegate-rich Ohio and Texas, which both hold votes March 4.
With Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland nodding in agreement behind her, Clinton accused Obama of emulating the tactics of Karl Rove, President Bush's former political director who is reviled by Democrats.
Obama "is continuing to send false and discredited mailings with information that is not true to the voters of Ohio," Clinton said.
The two mailings deal with Clinton's stance on health care and the North American Free Trade Agreement, but Obama insists he can back up the claims that the literature is true.
One mailing says her health care proposal would force everyone to buy health insurance, regardless of ability to pay, a charge Clinton vehemently denied.
"Sen. Obama knows it is not true that my plan forces people to buy insurance even if they can't afford it," she said.
The NAFTA mailer says Clinton was a "champion" for NAFTA while first lady, but now opposes it. NAFTA was negotiated by the first President Bush and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
"I am fighting to change NAFTA," Hillary Clinton said Saturday.
Clinton says that 'every Democrat should be outraged' and challenged Obama to meet her in Ohio and have a debate.
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at 20:37 on February 23rd, 2008
It was my understanding that Clinton was a champion of NAFTA while first lady. Am I alone here? I had always just taken this as a given, nothing against Clinton.
The Rove comment seems a little confusing. Rove is a perfect example of the Machiavellian school of thought, of which Obama seems to be an almost polar opposit. I don't mean Machiavellian in the pejorative sense, but in its political meaning ala The Prince.
at 16:02 on February 26th, 2008
UPDATE:
Clinton did release a statement today about her heated statment on television over the weekend:
"I got a little hot over the weekend down in Cincinnati," Clinton
said at a town hall event in Lorain, Ohio. "Because I don't mind having
a debate. I don't mind airing our differences, but I really mind it
when Sen. Obama's campaign sends you literature in the mail that is
false, misleading and has been discredited.
"That is not the way to run a campaign to pick the Democratic nominee for president," she added, to applause.
(Courtsey of CNN.com)
Obama has denied that the literature Clinton is referring to is false.
I though Hiliary should have stood by her statment if she really believed it to be true, and not have backed down to pressure so soon.
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