Obama, Clinton exchange fresh blows

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Reuters

By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a flap that has shifted the Democratic 2008 presidential race to a more negative tone, Barack Obama on Friday said Hillary Clinton was showing bad judgment for refusing to consider a dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy.

Visiting the early voting state of Iowa, Obama kept up the attack on Clinton in a dispute that has lasted all week over whether the next president to be elected in November 2008 should be prepared to meet leaders of hostile nations like Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea and Venezuela.

Clinton, leading in the Democratic contest, considers the first-term senator from Illinois naive for saying he would be willing to meet the troublesome leaders, while Obama thinks Clinton is sticking to the foreign policy status quo of the much-criticized Bush administration.

"So often in Washington, experience means doing what we've been doing over and over and over again. Well, to me that's not experience if what you're doing isn't working," Obama told a crowd on a farm in Adel, a field of corn behind him.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2619692620070727

[Spinzonner]

1. With that Subject line

they may be a lot closer than people think.

[dipsydoodle]

12. Well at least

I thought that was funny :rofl:

[Virginia Dare]

2. Okay, it's time for both of them to STFU about this..

We know HRC will not engage in a Bush lite foreign policy. We know that Obama will not be taking tea with Ahmadinejad in his first week of Presidency. Give it a rest.

[olddad56]

5. I say keep it up. Let's hear more of what they stand for.

[Virginia Dare]

7. Don't expect to hear that from the MSM...

they'll just concentrate on the cat fight. You won't hear anything new.

[trixie]

6. I agree

While I am all for debate, we really need to take control before another repug gets elected. I feel it is time to come together and put up the best person who can get elected.

My dream ticket - Gore/Bill Clinton (though I know it's not possible).

[ChrisdemW]

10. my dream ticket

gore obama in any order

[olddad56]

17. "before a repug gets elected" ? Are niave enough to expect a fair election?

[emilyg]

8. You are right.

All they're doing is supplying fodder for Fox News. It certainly doesn't make me love them for this.

[mzmolly]

14. Agreed!

Pathetic.

[Bluzmann57]

3. Many in the MSM have been salivating over something like this

"Look, the two big time Deomcrats are fighting! How in the hell can either one of them be President when they can't get along?" Some of the pundits have sounded disappointed after the so called debates at the civility. Or at least that's how it seems to me. So now they have their wish, at least for this week.

[David Dunham]

4. Obama is being NAILED by most pundits on this. Bye Barackis

[Kagemusha]

9. Remind me why pundits have the last say here? Please?

I thought the people who had the say were primary voters.

I was not aware pundits had somehow regained their importance.

[High Plains]

16. The pundits, the pundits, who gives a shit about the pundits?

Don't let them drive your decisions.

[Jim Sagle]

11. Keep it up, guys. Meanwhile, Edwards RRRAWWWWXXXX!!!!!!!!

:beer:

[mzmolly]

13. We're going to see the Dean/Gephardt murder suicide all over again.

When will we learn? Oh well Edwards will be set up quite nicely I guess. ;)

[surfermaw]

15. Still say we should be sure republicans aren't feeding money to our candidates

We better be sure?

[Exultant Democracy]

18. Everyone needs to calm down, the sky isn't falling the race is starting.

This is not only inevitable but it is also good.