Obama's Response (earlier today) to Hillary Campaigns attack on PAC

[TeamJordan23]

In a press avail in Iowa today, Obama responded, “I think that folks from some of the other campaigns are reading the polls and starting to get stressed and issuing a whole range of outlandish accusations. Everything that we have done is in exact accordance with the law and unless they can show that it hasn’t been. I suggest that they focus on trying to get their supporters to caucus in Iowa.” Obama also said this about the PAC: “I had not been planning to run for president… So by the time we announced that I was running, there was still money left over, which we used to contribute to candidates all across the country to help build a Democratic majority. That was the purpose of it… That is the purpose of all these leadership funds. That is the reason Clinton’s leadership fund was set up — the same reason why multiple candidates have these leadership funds. We just simply didn’t have the ability to get all that money out. And I would point out that we have made contributions to many people who are endorsing Sen. Clinton instead of me. Again, I think what people need to focus on is that all these accusations that are starting to come out seem to correspond to shifts in political fortune.”

[David Dunham]

1. Obama sounds a lot like Rudy -- he's cornered and dissembling.

[Dawgs]

4. Obama cornered by what? He's kicking ass and Clinton is attacking and failing.

Nice spin though.

[Kahuna]

11. Really? Dream on. nt

[Dawgs]

2. Once again, Obama makes Clinton look stupid.

[Colobo]

3. It's a normal thing now.

[BeyondGeography]

5. "I would point out that we have made contributions to many people who are endorsing Sen. Clinton

instead of me."

You'd think Team Flawless would be smart enough to find another issue to play with.

[Pirate Smile]

6. OK - this cracked me up.

Ambition

Whatever happened to the politics of not launching two mini-attacks on a Sunday?

Anyway, the second Clinton round hits Obama on something her campaign has criticized him for before — mocking her long ambition, while suggesting he's a reluctant, or accidental, candidate, and not just as ambitious as she is.

Clinton case here, concluding with this deadpan note: "In kindergarten, Sen. Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want to Become President.'"

Obama spokesman Bill Burton responds: "I'm sure tomorrow they'll attack him for being a flip-flopper because he told his second grade teacher he wanted to be an astronaut."

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1207/Ambition.html

[ClarkUSA]

7. bwahahaha!

Ohmigod, that's funny. You'd think Hillary would have learned by now not to attack Obama. Has she ever won a round? Polling trends say NO.

[Colobo]

8. Wow! The Clinton camp is desperate.

[bunnies]

9. ROFLMAO!

:spray: Id have thought this was an Onion piece.

[jenmito]

10. That was a GREAT comeback!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[troubleinwinter]

12. Ohkaaay... with this & a whole bunch of previous threads on both sides...

ALL Obama and Hillary threads go on my 'hide' list.

Sick of it.