Reply #7: Team Obama has used these attacks from the beginning [View All]

[DemGa]

This was one of Barack Obama's central arguments: he was more electable because of Hillary's high "negatives."

"It's very hard for Senator Clinton to break out of the politics of the past 15 years," Obama said after being asked about her at the school appearance. "Senator Clinton starts off with 47 percent of the country against her. That's a hard place to start."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001331.html


‘‘Democrats will win in November and build a majority in Congress not by nominating a candidate who will unite the other party against us, but by choosing one who can unite this country around a movement for change,’’ Obama said,

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/768042,obhill013008.article

As far as the "honesty" question, Team Obama has used that relentlessly:

Senator Clinton likes to claim that she’s been vetted. But there is a salient theme emerging that has not been examined at all in this race: Senator Clinton has consistently made political calculations to deliberately mislead the American people and the voters have noticed.

For too long, the media has failed to live up to its historic obligation of holding candidates accountable for their contradictions on the campaign trail, and it’s time that Senator Clinton be questioned aggressively about this pattern of misleading voters.

A history of misleading voters

http://thepage.time.com/obama-camp-memo-on-clinton-misleading-voters/


“People have heard a lot of things that just aren’t true from the mouth of the First Lady, from the mouth of the former president, from the mouth of the campaign," said Robert Gibbs, Obama’s communications director.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/8002.html


http://www.attacktimeline.com/