OH-EIGHT (D): OBAMA'S JABS AT HRC

[Omaha Steve]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/07/18/274918.aspx

OH-EIGHT (D): OBAMA'S JABS AT HRC

Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:17 AM by Domenico Montanaro
Categories: Democrats, 2008

Yesterday, the AFL-CIO announced it will host a presidential forum with the top seven Democratic candidates -- Biden, Clinton, Dodd, Edwards, Kucinich, Obama, and Richardson (no Gravel) -- in Chicago. The forum, which will be aired on MSNBC and moderated by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, is being held the day before the AFL-CIO will decide whether it convenes its General Board this fall to consider an endorsement.

The Chicago Tribune reports that Elizabeth Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama were all featured guest speakers at yesterday’s Planned Parenthood Action Fund event in D.C. With each speaking offering their (or in their husband’s, in Elizabeth’s case) health care proposals, it was Clinton who provided the most “bruising critique of Bush administration policies and Republican conservatives on abortion rights and contraception policy.”

CLINTON:

Newsweek's Meadows interviews every candidate that has ever faced Clinton in an election (including her high school student council opponent) to find out how one beats Clinton. "There’s a reason she hasn’t lost an election since she ran for president of the student council in high school. She does her homework; she doesn’t do gaffes. Anyone running against her would be wise not to count on an implosion. So if she won’t do herself in, how can she be beaten?" Newsweek offers up 10 ideas.

Her campaign is mailing out DVDs to Iowa Democrats “that explains her plan to end the war in Iraq.”

DODD:

He told a New Hampshire crowd he opposed “a single-payer health-care system” which did not sit well with some audience members. The president of the town’s historical society even called him “waffly” and said his plan didn't make much sense to me, truthfully.”

One way to get buzz in N.H.? Find a town that no candidate has ever visited. Dodd apparently did that yesterday in Grantham, N.H. And he got 50+ folks to show up.

FULL story at link.

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