Obama jabbing from defensive stance

[rodeodance]

Source: ap

Obama jabbing from defensive stance

By RON FOURNIER, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 28, 4:15 PM ET

WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa - Barack Obama is finishing the Iowa caucus campaign in the same position he started — a prize fighter's defensive stance.


The Illinois senator's stump speech for the final six days of the Democratic race is a package of inspirational rhetoric, policy promises and his signature message of hope. But the undercurrent of the addresses — delivered to large crowds four and five times a day — is a dogged response to Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards and others who say he's too raw and ambitious for the presidency.

"There are those who say if you want to bring about change, you must have more experience," Obama told 200 Iowans who slogged through several inches of wet snow to hear him speak. "I don't understand this argument — the argument that you are the master of a broken system in Washington ... and yet you offer yourself up as a person to change it?"

Obama did not need to mention Clinton's name for his audience to know he was talking about the New York senator and former first lady who argues that she is the only Democrat with enough experience to change Washington.........

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[bluewisdom]

1. ....

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[Little Star]

2. Ditto. n/t

[bemildred]

3. Who writes this crap?

The sports analogies make me want to puke.
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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. This guy:

[bemildred]

5. Ahhhhh. That explains it. nt