Chicago Tribune: Obama prepares for full assault on Clinton

[Coexist]

The two major attacks on Obama have been Rezko and Wright.

He put both of them to bed on the same day, Friday. They apparantly have nothing else on him. He also released his earmarks going all way back to '05. Its all out there. Transparent.

He just plowed the road.

PLAINFIELD, Ind. - Sen. Barack Obama is trying to air his dirty laundry -- even some items that might appear just a little wrinkled -- as he prepares a full assault on Sen. Hillary Clinton over ethics and transparency.

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With a gap between campaign contests, Obama is trying to unload controversies. On Friday he held extended conversations with the Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times about his longtime relationship with indicted developer and fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

The Illinois Democrat is also expected to make public his tax returns for several years before 2006, documents he previously has provided to the Tribune and other news organizations.

Clinton, who appeared Saturday in two St. Patrick's Day parades in Pennsylvania, has said she will release her post-White House tax returns in mid-April, perhaps just ahead of the April 22 Pennsylvania primary.

Expect it to be all taxes, all donors, all White House papers, all the time.

[skooooo]

1. Fired up and READY TO GO!

GOBAMA!!!!

:kick:

[rodeodance]

16. You folks have been saying that since january at least. guess what. she is alive and well.

[KittyWampus]

20. you mean, losing the race, moving goal posts, pissing off Dem party insiders?

[skooooo]

32. oh did "ignored" say something again?

glad I can't read it.

[rodeodance]

37. BO and his racial politics --are leading him down the tube and you know it.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. In an existential sense, yes.

In a campaign sense, not so good.

[roguevalley]

44. you reap what you sow. she can't expect him not to turn his fire on

her since that appears to be all she has, spitting. Well, prepare for incoming, Hillary. God knows, they have skeletons. Too bad. She won't have anything but her money and her bitterness if this keeps on going.

[damndude]

50. its time to end this and prepare for the general

please let him pull out a bazooka

[goldcanyonaz]

2. Kick ass! Let's expose both Dems for the frauds they really are.

:woohoo:

[ericgtr]

5. Sort of hard to do when only one of them has released everything

and the other is pulling a Dick Cheney.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I hope he pummels her. There is no risk to that in PA--they like dirty politics.

[ensho]

9. 'pummels' ?

nt

[TwilightGardener]

Oui, "pummels". Or "ass-kicks". Or "wallops". Or "bludgeons".

All in a figurative way, of course. :-)

[ensho]

21. women really don't like those words used towards another woman

pushes too many of our buttons

[TwilightGardener]

26. Well, I'm a woman. And I want to see some serious ASS being KICKED!!

[Adelante]

31. Me, too nt

[Kaylee]

36. Ditto!

[OhioBlue]

34. I'm a woman and I hope he kicks ass.

I hope he beats her 80:20 in PA and ends this damn Primary season.

[mopinko]

39. then they shouldn't run for president.

sorry, but if she can't stand the heat......
same for supporters.
i am a woman also. i would not expect everyone to play patticake instead of football were i in the race.

[Kahuna]

47. Doesn't bother me. But then I'm not trying to pick nits.

:shrug:

[Cornus]

30. I'm sure it was meant figuratively

pum·mel /ˈpʌməl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object), -meled, -mel·ing or (especially British) -melled, -mel·ling.
to beat or thrash with or as if with the fists.

[Frances]

4. The Dem problem is that

we have two well-qualified candidates.

Both are intelligent and both are fighters.

It's an embarrassment of riches.

Just hope all this works out to our advantage in the fall.

[Saturday]

6. No, they're not in bed. They woke up for the Sunday AM talk shows.nt

[rodeodance]

12. yup.

[ensho]

7. you had to use the word 'assault' ?

nt

(didn't mean the poster re: using assault)

[Coexist]

10. if you follow the link, that is the article headline. n/t

[ensho]

18. sorry FLDem5 didn't mean you

nt

[Coexist]

27. no problem.

[damndude]

13. he's just returning fire

[leftofcool]

8. Good luck

[rodeodance]

11. ha ha---its Sunday am BO and followers---It issue is alive and well

[BumRushDaShow]

14. She will claim "Executive Privilege". n/t

[CoffeeCat]

15. Obama has shown us that he is an inspirational leader...

...and an intelligent, talented candidate who can unite our country and
usher in a new era of politics.

We get that.

Now, he needs to demonstrate that he can kick major ass by taking Hillary
to the cleaners and delivery a few knock-out punches. He doesn't need to
do this with personal attacks or vitriol. It can be done by bringing up
the truth about Hillary.

Obama needs to show us that he is not afraid to take on Hillary--and call her
on the carpet for these issues. She should have released her tax returns long
ago, as well as those White House records that are still under lock and key.

She should be called out for her divisive, empty, negative campaigning--and
Obama needs to spell out that Hillary's campaign is a direct testament to
how she will run the nation---not very well and with a lot of divisive, vitriol.

Go to it, Obama.

[Coexist]

23. wonderful post, as always...

but, my goodness,"Ignored" is really attracted to this thread!

[Tellurian]

17. LOVE IT! Bring it ON!

I hope Obama is prepared to get what he does in kind though. And we don't have to listen to the whining and crying from his supporters when he flounders under the next wave of revelations.

[leftofcool]

19. I beleive those will be forthcoming tomorrow

[TwilightGardener]

22. O Noes! Newsmax and Fox!

[leftofcool]

25. ABC and CNN will be covering it

[TwilightGardener]

29. O Noes!

[ampad]

33. What is forthcoming

Her earmarks and tax returns?

[TwilightGardener]

40. Supposedly video of Obama sitting through one of Wright's sermons.

Where the pastor says something about white people, or something. It's rumored that the video will be released tomorrow.

[Tellurian]

45. seriously?

[book_worm]

28. Everything the Clinton's have pulled on him has failed because there is nothing there

and I wouldn't talk about "next round of revelations" when it comes to the Clinton's.

[Tellurian]

48. Oh I wouldn't say that..If you go back in time..and look at the Obama that started

his campaign with the promise of running a clean campaign and being a "pure" unaffected neophyte in the ways of DC politics and looking at him today; he's hardly recognizable as the same candidate who announced his new politics in February 07'. If anything, his campaign has demonstrated he is not a man of his word and never tried from the outset to affect a change in the way politics are handled at election time. He threw the first punch at Senator Clinton with his campaign's offensive Punjab comments when Sen Clinton received the endorsement of the Indian community.

I guess people see what they want to see when it benefits their agenda.. BTW have you voted in my poll?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5106935

[sniffa]

35. I hope Obama smashes her

[JVS]

53. I HOPE HE RIPS OFF HER HEAD AND SHITS DOWN HER NECK! AAAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHHH!`

Figuratively speaking, of course.

My neighbors keep telling me to quiet down, those fucking shitfaces!

:grr:

[babylonsister]

38. And he'll do it the same way he does everything; with a lot

more manners and class than any of her surrogates. I think the truth might just work; bring up those issues she's been consciously avoiding. Why the secrecy? I'm looking forward to this!

[shadowknows69]

41. Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of research!!!

Hillary wants to play the guilty by association game then I say lets clean out her closet full of skeletons.

[Coexist]

42. very well put.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

43. 'Bout time!

[Kahuna]

46. Scratch her eyes out Obama!!! It's not like she hasn't been asking for it..

for a looooong time.

[krkaufman]

49. Don't be fooled about HC releasing her tax returns on Apr. 15th

She's given that date because it will allow her to postpone their release one more time, due to some unexpected issues, pushing their release just beyond the PA primary. That's where I'm putting my money, anyway.

[shadowknows69]

52. I'd take that bet with you

[LadyVT]

51. So it's okay for Obama to campaign negatively, but not Hillary? Uh...WHY?

Is that not hypocritical? Do you hold her to a different standard?

[scheming daemons]

54. Because she started it?

Sorry... SELF-DEFENSE *IS NOT* hypocritical.