Clinton tells Obama: 'Shame on you'; Obama fires back

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Clinton tells Obama: 'Shame on you'; Obama fires back


Sen. Hillary Clinton waves campaign literature she says is false. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is behind her.

(CNN) -- A visibly angry Sen. Hillary Clinton lashed out Saturday at Sen. Barack Obama over campaign literature that she said he knows is "blatantly false," while Obama called her outburst "tactical." Clinton jabbed the air with her hands as she told a crowd in Cincinnati, Ohio, that two Obama mailings spread lies about her positions on universal health care and the North American Free Trade Agreement. "Shame on you, Barack Obama," she said.

Polls show Clinton and Obama are in statistical dead heats in delegate-rich Ohio and Texas, which both hold votes March 4.

With Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland nodding in agreement behind her, Clinton accused Obama of emulating the tactics of Karl Rove, President Bush's former political director who is reviled by Democrats. Obama "is continuing to send false and discredited mailings with information that is not true to the voters of Ohio," Clinton said.

One mailing says her health care proposal would force everyone to buy health insurance, regardless of ability to pay, a charge Clinton vehemently denied. "Sen. Obama knows it is not true that my plan forces people to buy insurance even if they can't afford it," she said. The NAFTA mailer says Clinton was a "champion" for NAFTA while first lady, but now opposes it. NAFTA was negotiated by the first President Bush and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. "I am fighting to change NAFTA," Hillary Clinton said Saturday.

"Enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics right out of Karl Rove's playbook. This is wrong, and every Democrat should be outraged," she said.

Obama denied Clinton's assertions that the literature was false. "There's nothing in that mailing that is inaccurate," he said, adding that he was puzzled by the sudden scrutiny since the mailers had been around for days, if not weeks. "We have been subject to constant attack from the Clinton campaign, except for when we were down 20 points. And that was true in Iowa. It was true in South Carolina. It was true in Wisconsin, and it is true now," Obama said. He described Clinton's anger as "tactical" and defended his campaign. "The notion that somehow we're engaging in nefarious tactics I think is pretty hard to swallow."...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/23/clinton.mailings/index.html

[izzie]

1. I am really getting mixed up with Clinton.

She seems to be all over the place. These things she is fighting about seem to be almost silly and trying to find some thing to pick a fight about. It makes me think some one is behind her telling her to fight so she is looking for something. It has to be hard to be a nice smart women and have to be a half of Bill. Frankly I just wish she would stop and give it all up. Their will be other women who did it more on their own that will run and some day win.

[Windy]

2. I'm trying to get the video to load on CNN...its bogged down. Must mean a lot of traffic!

Good!

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Here's a YouTube link --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9CRgFO2mnM

[Windy]

5. Obama's response.... a video link. He hit the mark!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmHyi-IEpX8

[mkultra]

4. anger will kill her

Once he lets her build is anger up enough, all he has to do is paint her as angry and irrational. Then shes screwed.