Politico: Obama pushes back

[Colobo]

Obama pushes back


His responses to Hillary's attacks on this morning's conference call were pretty mild, but he sharpened them in his economic speech today, questioning Clinton's commitment to her policy stands, and apparently offering his own version of the "present" attack in response to Clinton's regret for voting for a bill making it harder to declare personal bankruptcy: "Most of us know that if you don’t want to see a bill pass, there’s a pretty easy option available – you can vote against it."

Here's the full passage, from his prepared text:

In the debate last night, we spent some time talking about the economy. And one of the things I brought up that concerned me was that when Senator Clinton first released her economic stimulus plan, she didn’t think that workers or seniors needed immediate tax relief. She thought it could wait until things got worse. Five days later, the economy didn’t really change, but the politics apparently did, because she changed her plan to look just like mine.

It reminds me of what happened when we started debating the credit card industry’s bankruptcy bill – a bill that would make it much harder for working families to climb out of debt. Believe it or not, Senator Clinton said again last night that even though she voted for the bill, she was glad it didn’t pass. I know you can get away with this in Washington, but most of us know that if you don’t want to see a bill pass, there’s a pretty easy option available – you can vote against it.

And we’ve heard her say the same kind of thing about NAFTA and China trade –agreements that sent millions of American jobs – thousands from this very state – overseas. Because only in Washington could Senator Clinton say that NAFTA led to economic improvement up until she started running for President. Now she says we need a time-out on trade. No one knows when this time-out will end. Maybe after the election.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/

[gaiilonfong]

1. Now that is more like it

Go get her Obama, she is a lying thug repub-lite

[truebrit71]

3. Exactly...she flips-flops more than Mitt the Hairpeice...

..

[AtomicKitten]

2. Obama is letting the Clintons know their negative campaigning will not go unanswered.

[truebrit71]

4. The only way to deal with a bully is to push back...HARDER...

...and with the skeletons in this lady's closet I'd be REAL careful about just how much mud I was throwing around if I were her....

[AtomicKitten]

6. ain't that the truth?

The Clintons are busy bees flinging poo to obfuscate their own issues which will loom LARGE in the GE.

[peoli]

5. He needs to keep jabbing back

[BenDavid]

7. right leaning bias reporting and mark halperin anti-left

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

8. Ah, Ben Smith, talking out of his "ass"umptions again. I really like when he explains why he got it

wrong.

He writes a lot of those "explaining" type posts, too. MKJ

[Cha]

10. Your post adds nothing

to this discussion.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

11. If people want to talk about a "pundit's" words, they should know if the pundit is a RW shill.

MKJ

[Cha]

12. I don't care who he is..he was

reporting on what Obama said.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

13. He's just another RW shill trying to influence events instead of reporting. At least he actually

quoted one of the candidates this time, instead of paraphrasing. I guess he's been burned too much with his "prognosticating", LOL.

He's a Limbaugh/O'Liely wannabe. But, why should you care if he gives Sen Obama air kisses? :shrug:

MKJ

[Cha]

15. You're the only one talking

about air kisses.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

18. Well, it was one of my better allegories.

Thanks for noticing. :-) MKJ

[Cha]

9. Rec'd..Obama is able to

take hilary's lies and explain them so people will understand how she is trying to worm her way out of her record these past 7 years in congress..enabling corporations and saying "see ya" to The People.

Imagine, someone as compelling as Obama calling hilary and bill on their shit on the national stage..YAY!

hilary could have done things the right way instead of the fucking evil way and she wouldn't need all the lies surrounding her now.

[Dante_]

14. Obama has been pushing back with old style politics all along. H-Y-P-O-T-W-I-T?

I don't think Obama is a hypotwit, I just thing people who hate Hillary are. They use Obama as a shield and in the process they make Obama's camp look cheap, mean and petty.

but then again...

http://abcnews.go.com/story?id=4036024

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/21/obama-camp-registers-anti_n_77855.html

[Cha]

19. hilary and her husband bill

are lying, pandering, hypocrites who have "both put their own ambitions above the country's needs over the last 8 years".

So don't try to make this about people who hate hilary..they have a reason.

Obama has always taken the high road while the clintons are down and dirty looking up from the sewer.

[Dante_]

21. sticks and stones.....and calling people names....

...bore me

[Cha]

22. Yeah, I can see your bored.

you add nothing.

[DrFunkenstein]

16. But...But...He Voted "Present" on a Bunch of Procedural Amendments!!

Far be it from the Clintons to distort someone's record to further their own ambitions, but their countless attempts to muddy the waters only go so far.

[Occam Bandage]

17. And Michelle Obama worked for a company that made pickles!

[zulchzulu]

20. Another $100 to the Good Senator...

...and some phonebanking tonight!

GOBAMA!