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Cheap shot from a desperate Clinton (Put a fork in Old Crusty - she's done)
SP Times ^ | Jan. 08, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 01/08/2008 5:51:57 AM PST by jdm

The day before today's New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton desperately searched for issues she could use against Barack Obama. Unfortunately, she made the mistake of attacking him for what she called his inconsistent record on the Iraq war.

Remember, Obama, as an Illinois state senator, opposed the war in 2002, and Clinton, a U.S. senator from New York, voted to give President Bush the authority to go to war against Iraq. You would think Iraq would be the last issue Clinton would raise against Obama, who has tapped into a public hunger for change in Washington.

"If you make a speech, and a very good speech, against the war in Iraq in 2002, and then by 2004 you're saying you're not sure how you would have voted, and by 2005, 2006, 2007 you vote for the $300-billion for the war you said you were against, that's not change," she told one audience.

Was Clinton, who has repeatedly voted to fund the war, criticizing Obama for supporting U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq? By the time Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, the war he opposed was under way, and it is to his credit that he voted against cutting off funds for armor, equipment and other military needs.

The kindest way to view Clinton's cheap shot is to assume the physical exhaustion of a grueling campaign schedule finally caught up with her.


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cheapshot; hillaryclinton
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1 posted on 01/08/2008 5:52:00 AM PST by jdm
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To: jdm

How does either one of these two clowns expect to get elected by trumpeting their votes AGAINST the needs of our military!?


2 posted on 01/08/2008 5:53:56 AM PST by The Louiswu (Never Forget!)
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To: jdm

Come on old crusty, get back on the horse.


3 posted on 01/08/2008 5:55:19 AM PST by Always Right
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To: jdm

We want change = we hate Bush

the Rats are still running against W


4 posted on 01/08/2008 5:55:52 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Moveon is not us...... Moveon is the enemy)
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To: The Louiswu

Have you seen a typical Dem voter recently? Most of them would just as soon get rid of our military and let the UN handle our security.

Of course, then the UN will say, what do you expect us to do? We always just used the American military.


5 posted on 01/08/2008 5:56:02 AM PST by nhoward14 (Fred Thompson will get it DUN DUN in 2008!)
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To: jdm
that's not change," she told one audience.

I saw a clip of her trying to get the audience to do a "that's not change!" shoutalong. Kinda pathetic.

6 posted on 01/08/2008 5:59:06 AM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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To: jdm

Of course he was AGAINST it. After all, when the mussies take over America he wants to keep his head firmly attached to his body!


7 posted on 01/08/2008 6:02:13 AM PST by Doc Savage (The tree of liberty needs to be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants)
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To: JennysCool
I saw a clip of her trying to get the audience to do a "that's not change!" shoutalong. Kinda pathetic.

I live in northeast Massachusetts, so I'm barraged with her campaign commercials all the time, and I swear the goal of her latest round of spots is to see how many times she can cram the word "change" into a thirty-second commercial. It's like listening to a bit from Kevin Nealon's old "Subliminal Message Man" on Saturday Night Live.

8 posted on 01/08/2008 6:02:21 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: JennysCool

She is pathetic IMHO.


9 posted on 01/08/2008 6:02:32 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: jdm
She isn't done. It's safe to say her operatives are working overtime to make sure California, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the other big states all go her way.

This reminds me of when Pat Buchanan won New Hampshire in 1996...we ended up with Dole, anyway. Hillary is more of a Democratic Richard Nixon, but it's "her turn" so it's way too early to declare her dead.

10 posted on 01/08/2008 6:06:22 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: jdm

i think the voters got a whiff of the “lucky pantsuit”


11 posted on 01/08/2008 6:09:25 AM PST by steamroller
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12 posted on 01/08/2008 6:09:46 AM PST by devolve (---- - Hey Boone! - My bonus check is late again! -)
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To: bert
the Rats are still running against W

They'll be stuck in W mode for a long time, as a collective party they have all the nimbleness of a dumptruck.

13 posted on 01/08/2008 6:11:34 AM PST by Sax
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14 posted on 01/08/2008 6:36:03 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
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To: jdm

Why do you folks always hit a girl when she is down. This is just because I am a woman.

15 posted on 01/08/2008 6:36:22 AM PST by sr4402
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To: jdm

Don’t pick on her. She takes this PERSONALLY. (I’m wiping away a tear as I type this.)


17 posted on 01/08/2008 6:38:39 AM PST by samtheman (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: bert
"We want change"

Yeah, they want to change from a Republic to a Dictatorship!

18 posted on 01/08/2008 6:42:58 AM PST by airborne (Proud to be a conservative! Proud to support Duncan Hunter for President!)
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To: sr4402

Looks like Hillery having her Gethsemane moment.


19 posted on 01/08/2008 7:55:43 AM PST by Eastbound
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To: jdm

She also said Obama hadn’t done enough SPADEWORK!! OMG!! If a Republican would have said that the crap would be hitting the fan!


20 posted on 01/08/2008 8:03:33 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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