Clinton accuses rivals of mud-slinging

[rodeodance]

Source: ap



Clinton accuses rivals of mud-slinging

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
26 minutes ago





LAS VEGAS - Under pressure in a feisty debate, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused her closest rivals Thursday night of slinging mud "right out of the Republican playbook" and leveled her sharpest criticism of the campaign at their records.


"People are not attacking me because I'm a woman, they're attacking me because I'm ahead," Clinton said, striving to protect her standing as front-runner in an increasingly competitive nominating campaign.

"What the American people are looking for right now is straight answers to tough questions, and that is not what we have seen from Senator Clinton on a host of issues," said Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in the opening moments of a debate seven weeks before the first contest of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

"There's nothing personal about this," said former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who joined Obama in bluntly accusing Clinton of forever switching positions on Social Security, driver's licenses for illegal immigrants and other issues, turning aside the suggestion that she was seeking to hide her positions. Long an advocate of universal health care, she said Obama's current proposal leaves millions uncovered and that Edwards did not support health care for all when he first ran for president in 2004.



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umm.. I thought it was Richardson who use the term mudslinging?

[daninthemoon]

1. Waaaaaahhhh. They didn't stick to the script.

[rodeodance]

2. yup, he said it:

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who has campaigned in Nevada more than any other presidential hopeful, took verbal shots at Clinton and her two closest pursuers in the polls.

"Let's stop the mudslinging," he said.

[rwheeler31]

3. no it was hill

[Bitwit1234]

4. YOU GOT THAT RIGHT

What would Obama and his groupies if they didn't sling the mud....they have nothing, absolutely nothing that he has done or says he will do that is worth posting. So they hate post, they mud sling. they flame. If he is so damn wonderful...where...where oh where or where are all the good things about him. We know that's why you hate post. Tell us please what has he done. Except he can give speeches. So should he walk around the country when the enemy is near giving speeches. Should he stand in front of TV and give speeches when we need an energy solution...speechify speechify what good is that.

[Danieljay]

5. Straight answers to tough questions? Give me a flippin break Hillary. You have managed to say

everything without saying anything at all. Typical political bullshit. If she's so concerned about giving straight answers to tough questions, why doesn't she just answer one without talking out both sides of her mouth?

[hedgehog]

6. After that hit-and-run on Obama's health plan, I'd say Hillary was the

one doing the mud slinging. Then she backed up to try to run over him again with that $1 trillion in taxes on the middle class line.

Anybody see Rove around lately?