Clinton lashes Obama's 'assault' as McCain visits Iraq

AFP ^ | 3/16/08 | AFP

[mdittmar]

Hillary Clinton's White House campaign lashed out Sunday after a report said rival Barack Obama was preparing a "full assault" on her after unloading some embarrassments to his own campaign.

The feuding over the report in the Democrat's hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, came as Republican nominee-elect John McCain polished his national security credentials on a surprise trip to Iraq.

"It is disappointing that a campaign that began by promising a politics of hope has come to this, that it is signalling and revelling in attacks on Senator Clinton's character," her communications director Howard Wolfson said.

"This is not the campaign they promised us," he said on a conference call.

The Tribune noted that Obama was now distancing himself from his fiery Chicago pastor, who argues in a newly unearthed video that the September 11 attacks of 2001 showed that "America's chickens are coming home to roost."

The Illinois senator had also sat down Friday for a grilling from Chicago reporters about his past ties to a city property developer, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, who is on trial for corruption in public contracts.

The Tribune report said Obama was "trying to air his dirty laundry ... as he prepares a full assault on Senator Hillary Clinton over ethics and transparency." It did not spell out what form that assault might take.

But earlier Sunday, Obama aides kept up a barrage of questioning over Clinton's tax returns, her records from her White House days, and possible ties to donors who gave generously to her husband Bill's presidential library.

"The Clinton campaign says she has been fully vetted but the truth is she is a veteran of non-disclosure," Obama chief strategist David Axelrod said.

"All of this has created a sense that there are things she wants the public not to know," he said.

And addressing the Clinton camp's battle to seat delegates from the pariah states of Florida and Michigan, Axelrod said: "You get the feeling they are literally trying to do anything to win this nomination."

The feistier tone between the campaigns belied a truce over Obama's pastor with Clinton supporters passing up repeating opportunities to decry the inflammatory language of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who said in the newly disclosed video that the 9/11 attacks were brought on by US "terrorism."

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the country's highest ranking elected Democrat, ruled out a "dream ticket" combining Obama and Clinton and said the party's nominee should be whoever leads in the final delegate count.

That would appear to favor Obama, while The New York Times reported that many Democratic "superdelegates" are loath for party grandees to overturn the will of the majority of voters at the August convention in Denver.

In the race for pledged delegates, Obama enjoys a lead of about 170 over Clinton. He has won double the number of states and is ahead in the national popular vote.

Speaking on ABC News, Pelosi said "if the votes of the superdelegates overturn what happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party."

"This is going to be over before we go to the convention... pretty soon, somebody will be far enough in front that this will come to an end," she said.

The next battle in the Democrats' nominating epic is Pennsylvania on April 22. But Obama is already campaigning in Indiana, which votes on May 6 along with North Carolina, in a sign that the race has weeks to go yet.

Clinton, dogged by her 2002 vote authorizing military force in Iraq, was due to give what her campaign called a "major policy address" on the war on Monday in Washington. The US-led invasion's fifth anniversary looms Thursday.

While the Democrats are sparring furiously over who would be the better commander-in-chief, McCain and two other pro-war senators arrived in Iraq on the first leg of a tour also taking him to the Middle East and Europe.

On CNN, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy accused McCain of heading over for a taxpayer-funded "photo op" instead of asking "hard questions" of the Iraqi government.

[Kaslin]

Let them beat each other up

[Chief_Joe]

Hillary Spam Continuation ping (Freepers for Hillary). Does anyone have a list of the political appointees Hillary will allowed to make over the next 8 years?

I'm sorry but this is all too contrived for me to buy into. All this spam saying the same thing: Preacher Wright says the Romans were white -big Whoopdie-Doo! Now I'm supposed to go for 8 years of Hillary?

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[mware]

Yeap Chief you nailed it, Yesterday, someone who signed on YESTERDAY, posted three (at last count) threads against Obama.

Not saying that all the threads posted are Clinton plants, but I do think that she has her minions out with articles in papers and internet that we are picking up and posting.

She is getting us to do her dirty work. Hey it is a win win for her, she is not linked to the stories and she can blame conservatives for spreading the dirty.

[The_Republican]

LOL! Apologize now for the assault you are planning.

[mylife]

L0L! Glad to see them wasting energy on each other. Meanwhile...
Voice of Turkey Radio is talking about McCain.

Obamas pastor got a mention.

[alecqss]

All this spam saying the same thing: Preacher Wright says the Romans were white

It says only that?! Then it's definitely a spam.

[mware]

Just found another thread against Obama from someone who signed on today.

Jim I think we may have a problem here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986607/posts?q=1&;page=151

[RC2]

Obama will nicey nicey them to death.....typical muslim style.

[Loyal Buckeye]

The chiwawas are at it again.

[The_Republican]

Subtle Differences!

[Enchante]

Well I’m glad to hear that Pelosi is supporting Obambi because he’s not going to fall behind in the delegate count and so Pelosi is saying the Hildebeast should not be revived by the “superdelegates” — Let’s see Obambi as the nominee, and then he should be trounced in the fall if/when voters can finally learn all about his far-left political pedigree plus Rezko corruption plus Jeremiah Wright’s racist depravity dwelling in the heart of the Obama ‘community’......

[Don Corleone]

Let them beat each other up

Rush Rules!

[beethovenfan]

Can’t wait to see these two tear each other apart. Twitching heaps of body parts - white meat and dark meat.

[The_Republican]

Eight More Years! Eight More Years! Eight More Years! Eigh.....

[Libloather]

"After 20 years of being preached to, I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!"

[KenHorse]

"It is disappointing that a campaign that began by promising a politics of hope has come to this, that it is signalling and revelling in attacks on Senator Clinton's character," her communications director Howard Wolfson said.

This is rich coming from the people who turned "the politics of personal destruction" into an artform

[Doogle]

[TCats]

That's my take. Besides the fact that I would accept Obama over Hillary if it came to that, he is IMO more vulnerable than she is. The Public has been inoculated to her and her HINO's crap, as bad as it is, whereas his is all new and is not ‘Just about sex’.

[O Neill]

Heil Hitlery!

I am NOT afraid of the O Boogie Man!!