Hillary Clinton suggests Obama has character issues

GlobeGazette.com ^ | 12/2/07 | By Ed Tibbetts, Quad-City Times and Charlotte Eby,

[LdSentinal]

On a day that a new poll said Barack Obama leads in Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suggested her rival has character issues.

Clinton closed out her Sunday with an appeal to voters in Bettendorf to caucus for her, but earlier in Cedar Rapids, she took Obama to task over his health care plan and disputed his claim he doesn’t take lobbyist money.

When a reporter asked whether she is suggesting Obama has “issues of character, the New York senator said, “I’m going to let voters make that decision but it’s beginning to look a lot like that. It really is.”

The two campaigns spent a good part of the day tangling with each other, all of it on the heels of a new Des Moines Register poll in Iowa that said Obama leads Clinton and John Edwards.

The poll, published Sunday, said that Obama has 28 percent support, with Clinton next at 25 percent and Edwards in third with 23 percent. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent.

With a month to go before the Jan. 3 caucuses, the campaigns are beginning to sharpen their attacks.

Clinton’s appearance at The Lodge in Bettendorf, though, was all about turning out the vote by encouraging people to “buddy-up” with friends and neighbors to boost turnout.

“It is close, it is tight. It’s going to be a race to the finish line,” Clinton told about 400 people.

Clinton said she wanted to win the caucuses — and, next year, push the state into the Democratic column in the general election.

“I want a long term relationship,” she said. “I don’t want to just have a one night stand with all of you.”

Clinton was joined by former Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, a Missouri Democrat who has endorsed her.

Gephardt touted Clinton’s experience and said there was no time for on-the-job training. “We’ve had on the job training the last seven years and we have a president who’s ineducable,” he said to applause. “It didn’t work.”

The Clinton campaign’s been drawing contrasts with Obama over health care for the past week.

On Sunday, the campaign ratcheted up the pressure by pointing to news reports that a political action committee run by Obama has contributed tens of thousands of dollars this year to local and congressional campaigns in early nominating states.

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said early Sunday that Obama ought to shut down the PAC, which he pointed out has taken lobbyist money. Obama has made swearing off lobbyist money a campaign issue. He says his campaign doesn’t accept it.

The Illinois senator, who was in Des Moines on Sunday, brushed off the complaints.

“I think that folks from some of the other campaigns are reading the polls and starting to get stressed and issuing a whole range of outlandish accusations,” he said. “Everything that we’ve done is in exact accordance with the law, and unless they can show that it hasn’t been, I’d suggest they focus on trying to get their supporters to caucus in Iowa.”

Later, Clinton said she shut down her leadership PAC when she launched her presidential bid but Obama “at least skirted if not violated FEC rules” and used “lobbyist and PAC money to do so.”

Clinton said she’d rather attack Republicans, but added “I have been on the receiving end of rather consistent attacks. Well now the fun part starts. We’re in the last month and we’re going to start drawing the contrasts...”

Obama’s campaign said that 57 percent of his PAC’s money this year went to candidates in non-early states, and it cited a news report saying a Clinton family foundation donated $100,000 this year to a South Carolina library. South Carolina has an early primary.

“This presidential campaign isn’t about attacking people for fun, it’s about solving people’s problems, like ending this war and creating a universal health care system,” Obama said in a statement Sunday.

[Mariner]

It’d be funnier than hell to see Hillary go after Obama over adultery.

[SIDENET]

This reeks of desparation.

What next Hellery? Are you gonna push him down a flight of stairs?

[COUNTrecount]

And all the rest of her charm is right here.............

http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/clintons.html

[macamadamia]

Honestly, I will be shocked if Hillary loses Iowa...more so NH. I say this because Team-Clinton will cheat like no other organization before...as sure as the sun will set they will cheat and the cheating will be breathtakingly bold. Like the geezer said in Master and Commander, “I tell ya, the devil’s at the wheel of that there phantom ship. You better hold fast.”

[upchuck]

When a reporter asked whether she is suggesting Obama has “issues of character, the New York senator said, “I’m going to let voters make that decision but it’s beginning to look a lot like that. It really is.”

That is a classic Hildabeaste attack. She never actually said she feels Obama has issues of character. She just "suggested" it. Classic!

IMHO, Hillary and her fellow thugs, criminals and assorted lowlifes are really beginning to feel the heat.

[lapster]

All of this simply means that Hillary’s Flying Monkeys will soon mount their pick-the-bones-clean attack. Bye, bye, Dumbo.

[kinghorse]

Is she bringing up cigarettes and jazz music already?
Fiendish.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Am I missing something?

Paranoia and its handmaiden, Revenge. She is disassembling before our very eyes, but the MSM still fail to acknowledge it.

[maine-iac7]

Where does one begin? One could make a case for all sorts of personality disorders...

Here is one with a string of lies, crimes and lack of character - saying, regarding another “issues of character, ... it’s beginning to look a lot like that. It really is.”

and she says: "“It is close, it is tight. It’s going to be a race to the finish line,”

Well, that is what horses do.

and

“I want a long term relationship,” she said. “I don’t want to just have a one night stand with all of you.”

Does she not have a clue as to the images of her and Bubba's past that evokes?

She truly is evil - she recognizes NO WRONG in anything they do. They are "the elite, above accountable"

Truly a dangerous human being

[#1CTYankee]

Obama lightweight, her thighness disgusting.

[maine-iac7]

der Schleikmeisteress.

[Fresh Wind]

I wonder if this is an inoculation move. Maybe to equalize things when the “Hillary is a Lesbian” story hits the fan.

[#1CTYankee]

"From the book "Unlimited Access", by Clinton FBI Agent in Charge, Gary Aldrige."

Met him, professional in every respect., this guy doesn't lie.

[romanesq]

Would not be surprised at all to see Shrillary go after Obama for adultery.
One can see Obama has a good wife but one can also see overbearing too.

And since he’s been a rising star for a while, coming from the Illinois Rat machine, he may have had a dalliance or two.

If he has, it will come out similar to the information about Rudy’s security details’ charges to various NYC agencies two hours before the CNN debate.

The timing would be similar. It was directed also toward those in Congress after Clinton’s impeachment hearings. She’ll use the same tactics again.

Since she is losing in Iowa and probably fading, you can count on it.

[RDTF]

great post!

[#1CTYankee]

"Truly a dangerous human being"

Can you prove the human part?

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Don’t ya just love it?

[lp boonie]

Duh! He’s a Dimnocrat.

[Revolting cat!]

And that post illustrates well the MSM cover up of the Beast!

[teenyelliott]

Hillary Clinton suggested [Barak HUSSEIN Obama] has character issues

WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Oh, man, that is a good one.