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Hillary Clinton suggests Obama has character issues
GlobeGazette.com ^ | 12/2/07 | By Ed Tibbetts, Quad-City Times and Charlotte Eby,

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clinton; clnton; democratparty; elections; hillary; obama
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1 posted on 12/02/2007 5:32:39 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal

Pot. Kettle. Black.


2 posted on 12/02/2007 5:33:26 PM PST by hoagy62 (Happily watching the Left go full-goose bozo.)
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To: LdSentinal
They invented the politics of personal destruction. What do you expect from criminals?
3 posted on 12/02/2007 5:35:16 PM PST by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: LdSentinal

Hillary is clearly getting desperate.


4 posted on 12/02/2007 5:35:55 PM PST by devere
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to hillery

takes one to know one


5 posted on 12/02/2007 5:36:28 PM PST by heavenbound
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To: LdSentinal

Irony is lost on the der Schleikmeisteress.


6 posted on 12/02/2007 5:36:39 PM PST by festus (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: LdSentinal
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suggested her rival has character issues.

So the L.A. Times is waiting for final orders to roll out the hit piece on Obama, right?

7 posted on 12/02/2007 5:38:12 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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To: LdSentinal
“I want a long term relationship,” she said. “I don’t want to just have a one night stand with all of you.”

Did she really say that? LOL!

8 posted on 12/02/2007 5:38:19 PM PST by GnL
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To: LdSentinal

“Obama has “issues of character, the New York senator said...”

Hahahahaha...unbelievable. The woman has no shame.


9 posted on 12/02/2007 5:39:00 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: LdSentinal

AHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Whew. That was funny.


10 posted on 12/02/2007 5:39:13 PM PST by saganite
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To: hoagy62
Pot. Kettle. Black.

Hillary doesn't look good in black.


11 posted on 12/02/2007 5:39:29 PM PST by South40 (I support the BEST conservative candidate in '08, Duncan Hunter!)
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To: LdSentinal
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...”

If any one of us ever said such a thing at a job interview we'd be thrown out on our butt so quickly there wouldn't be any time to say "thanks for the interview" ........

12 posted on 12/02/2007 5:39:32 PM PST by Mr_Moonlight
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To: LdSentinal

What balls! There are lots of books dealing with H Clinton’s character issues...


13 posted on 12/02/2007 5:39:42 PM PST by tubebender (The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act.)
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To: LdSentinal

My first response was ‘if that ain’t the pot callin’ the kettle...’ oh, you know...


14 posted on 12/02/2007 5:39:43 PM PST by Amalie (FREEDOM had NEVER been another word for nothing left to lose...)
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To: LdSentinal

macaca moment...


15 posted on 12/02/2007 5:40:05 PM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: LdSentinal

Hey Hillary, is Bonnie Campbell a lesbian too?


16 posted on 12/02/2007 5:41:15 PM PST by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: LdSentinal
"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.” Look. The last person I want to see as President of hte US is BO. BUT, this personal destruction is the mark of a psycopath. It really is. Queen Charlatan cannot be let anywhere near the White House!
17 posted on 12/02/2007 5:41:18 PM PST by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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To: LdSentinal

“America is a wonderful country! I mean it! No honest writer would challenge that statement! The human comedy never runs out of material! It never lets you down!”

—Tom Wolfe


18 posted on 12/02/2007 5:42:17 PM PST by RichInOC (Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lying slag.)
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To: LdSentinal
“I want a long term relationship,” she said. “I don’t want to just have a one night stand with all of you.”

Must everything with these people have sexual overtones? Frankly, as creepy as she is, a one-night stand would be overstepping her "marketability".

19 posted on 12/02/2007 5:43:05 PM PST by MHT
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To: LdSentinal

Hey Hillary, how much money did Obama get from Chinese dishwashers that live in bungalows? Hmmmm?


20 posted on 12/02/2007 5:43:15 PM PST by Bullish ( Reality is the best cure for delusion.)
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