Posted on 02/21/2007 8:10:23 PM PST by do the dhue
WASHINGTON — The battle to be the 2008 Democratic candidate for president went negative Wednesday, as leading contenders Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama got into a virtual shouting match.
With more than a year and a half remaining before the next presidential election, the campaigns exchanged heated words after Clinton suggested Obama return funds to Hollywood bigwig David Geffen, who insulted Clinton in a newspaper article.
"We aren’t going to get in the middle of a disagreement between the Clintons and someone who was once one of their biggest supporters. It is ironic that the Clintons had no problem with David Geffen when was raising them $18 million and sleeping at their invitation in the Lincoln bedroom," Obama campaign communications director Robert Gibbs said in a statement that was e-mailed to the news media.
Geffen, a former "Friend of Bill," co-hosted — with Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg — a star-studded, $1.3 million fundraiser for Obama on Tuesday night in Beverly Hills.
Among the 300 contributors who forked over $2,300 each were George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy and Morgan Freeman. Also in attendance were Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and director Ron Howard.
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like henry kissinger said about the iran iraq war
"it is a shame that this war must end and someone has to lose."
i have the same sentiments about osama and hitlery.
Thank goodness somebody has the nerve to criticize the Queen. It seems that Republicans can't, even the guy who ran against her for the Senate last year couldn't get under her skin like this.
Well, I do at least appreciate the fact that Obama has finally made it clear that he is running for president in his own right andnot actually jockeying to be Hillary's toilet seat-warmer in '09.
Hillary sees dead people... and not just the ones that vote for Democrats...
That is exactly what I was thinking. People who oppose the Clintons have a high mortality rate.
Obama was shown in multiple instances in California shaking hands with ordinary people on the street and talking at ease with journalists in off-the-cuff interviews about this issue.
The typical Hillary response came in a 1-on-1 (ie tightly scripted) interview with Stepanopolis, not in a public impromptu comment to journalists.
I think this is an indication that Hillary can't stand the heat and she's got a political glass jaw.
(Obama vs Condi in 2008?)
It's good to see you back in the fray, Mia T.
Parks..like Marcy park...You ell 'em...but stay away from open areas and some parks..especially in Washington...
and eat some fast food at different restaurants..JK
ROTFLMAO
............but quite good advice : )
Hillary will be in Iraq demoralizing the troops when Obama "GETS" it !!
L O L !
Nothing the Clintons did surprises me anymore. There are more than 115 mysterious deaths around these people. Hmmmm.
But he wound up there in any event. Obama should take notice.
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