BJClinton: "Send me"
Posted on 12/02/2007 5:32:37 PM PST by 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.
BJClinton: "Send me"
Hillary mud nightbed pot. Barack iron kettle. No comparison. Mute point anyway with both being lib losers. Next story......
I’m waiting for Hillary to accuse Michelle’s husband of being a rapist and call her an enabler.
[“I don’t want to just have a one night stand with all of you.”]
Interpretation: She wants to screw all of us any time she wants 24/7.
I’m not an Obama fan. Still, if someone as soulless as the rapist enabler, said I had character issues, I think I would call that a compliment.
Such a dirty mouth Hillary has!
Does she kiss Huma with that potty mouth?
Coming from Hillary, I suspect she knowns what she's talking about!
She must have had a belly full of "one night stands" in her marriage........along with a lot of "knee positions and carpet munching"...
She isn't worthy of any presss attention as such a political light weight, and reporters hang on her every word?
What a laugh. Any of the spice girls have more gravitas than Hillary-created-by-the-press-out-of-whole-cloth Clinton.
Give her a plate of beans, wait a few hours and then listen to her toot. What she would have to say then would make a lot more sense than this drivel.
I’m becoming more and more convinced that neither Shrillary or Obama have any chance of being elected. Notwithstanding the fact that both of them are just too far to the left for most Americans, Hillary is loathed by a significant portion of the American public. Her negatives are just too high. Obama seems like a nice guy but he’s just too inexperienced and, at this point in time, doesn’t have the “gravitas” to be President.
One of the local talk show guys here in Los Angeles commented today that if the Dems were smart, they would nominate Joe Lieberman. But, he noted, they ain’t that smart.
I think the next President of the U.S. will be an ex-Governor or Mayor, and a Republican.
I swear, if she loses the primary, the entire Democratic party will be found the next morning in Ft. Marcy Park.
Seriously, the big news in this story is that she's talking trash to Obama herself, rather than just through her minions. That's a sign she's getting desperate.
Keep on flapping those gums, Hildebeest, you can destroy any chance of getting the black vote in America!
Ugh... Is there anybody who wants that?
Can you just imagine what kind of Prex she would make?
Shudder at the thought.
No more commander in chief, it would be Dominatrix in Chief.
And she would make the whole nation PAY!
I think she will yet crack and bull a boner ( LOL) that will cash her out! Just like Howard Deans yell. She is a megalomaniac. When she looses in Iowa, what will she do? Go nuts!
I hope the press catches her tantrum! Her eyes rolling back into her head, shaking all over, dribble running out of a corner of her mouth. This is one BAD, eeeeevil woman.Call an exorcist now!
Interviewer: " Ms. Clinton, do you have any comment on the Obama campaign hiring an exorcist from Rome in order to netralize the Voo Doo woman you just hired for your satff from New Orleans?" Ms Clinton: " Mr. Obama has character issues, Mengustina is a black American celebrating her culture with my campaign!" We have no idea of the hurt this sow of death will bring on our country, even if not elected. She's done quite enough already.
If anyone has character issues it is Hillary Clinton!
LOL!
Run Hillary Run!
The Beast makes cracks about a sitting RAT senator? Not good...
Excellent point. That will cost her votes in IL.
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