Posted on 03/21/2008 5:39:50 PM PDT by mdittmar
The campaigns of Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) sparred Friday over which candidate is more deceptive in dealing with voters.
The Obama campaign used the recently released Clinton White House schedules to argue that the New York senator has not been forthcoming about her role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, while the former first lady’s camp accused Obama of hypocrisy on the NAFTA issue.
At the same time, Bill Burton, an Obama spokesman, cited polling data in a morning memo, suggesting that voters do not view Clinton as an honest politician but that they do view presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) as relatively trustworthy.
“Honesty is a crucial metric in this race because the Democratic nominee is going to be running against John McCain, who is viewed by voters as one of the most trustworthy politicians in America,” Burton wrote.
The Clinton campaign also charged that the Obama campaign was responsible for circulating a picture showing former President Bill Clinton with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s controversial longtime pastor.
“Well, President Clinton took tens of thousands of photos during his eight years as president. Stop the presses,” the Clinton campaign said in a memo.
It also asserted that the Obama camp was suggesting that the former first lady’s campaign had suggested that Clinton might have had some part in the recent dust-up over two State Department employees who accessed Obama’s personal passport files without authorization.
Singer, on a conference call with reporters, characterized the suggestion as “a reckless charge that has zero merit.”
The Clinton campaign has taken advantage of recent shifts in polling to say that Obama is falling because he is just starting to be “vetted and tested.”
The Obama campaign, however, said that Clinton might have been tested and vetted, but voters have found her to be dishonest.
“Sen. Clinton likes to claim that she’s been vetted,” Burton wrote in a memo. “But there is a salient theme emerging that has not been examined at all in this race: Sen. Clinton has consistently made political calculations to deliberately mislead the American people, and the voters have noticed.”
Now they tell us.
“Clinton has ‘history of misleading voters’”
WHAT?!!!
Are they sure?
Why I never heard of such a thing. I’m shocked!
I find it really amusing how black dems just LOVED the Clintons when x42 was in office. The Clintons could do no wrong. Now that a black man is running against her highness, blacks hate her AND x42.
This comment from the guy who has lead a double life as a full blown America and white hater for decades and is trying to pull a fast one by calling himself a uniter ?
Please.
If yes, they are 99.99% pure.
She is getting him to roll in the mud with her. He’s not going to be as good at it or as ruthless at it as she is.
Pure DemocRATS.
Like hell, Obama's being neutered - not that there's anything wrong with that.
It would so nice to be an Orville Redenbacher's heir right now.
There must be something wrong, I find myself agreeing with both Hillary and Obama.
Don't tell anybody but so do I. Hillary says Obama's a dirty rotten $@?!X, and he's saying the same trash about her.
OMG, they're both right!;)
that the people who claim to promote the "Black" man....
are about to shove Obama aside and steal the nomination at the convention?
I am a simple hard working man from Brooklyn and I am for McCain.
Yawn.
Pot, kettle, black.
(Or, considering the source, maybe that should be Pot, Kettle, Whitey?)
She spent 35 years, sicne she was 25 years old, honing her skills in skullduggery, bamboozelment, fairytale spinning, miraculous voice and accent changes, while perfecting her mudslinging capabilties, along with an ocassional lamp and/or ash tray throw.
Funny, when the Clintons were doing it to Republicans, they were widely admired for it in Liberal circles. Now, the Clintons have turned their “talents” on fellow Democrats and the Libs are screaming bloody murder. Too bad the Libs didn’t have enough principle and/or integrity to stand up for honor, truth and dignity when they had the chance. But now, the monster they helped to create has turned on them and may well destroy them. And you know what? I couldn’t be more pleased.
But, are you clean and articulate?
Obama brave. He is going on vacation on a plane that maybe traveling outside the country. Has he never heard of Ron Brown?
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