There was an event on CSPAN with Barack Obama speaking in Newton, Iowa where someone here on DU pointed out where someone came up to Barack Obama and told him about how Mrs. Christie Vilsack, the wife of former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack, had belittled the Obama supporter and chastised her for her choice and called her "Republican Lite".
What's laughable is that anyone would call Obama "Republican Lite", but for Mrs. Vilsack, who has ties to the Clintons for years, including this little morsel of information:
"Before ending his presidential bid on Feb. 23, Mr. Vilsack had accumulated a debt of about $430,000. The Clinton campaign has agreed to help erase at least some of that debt. A fund-raising appeal on his behalf could be landing in mailboxes of her donors soon.
Aides to Senator Clinton and Mr. Vilsack say there was no quid pro quo. Instead, they said, there is a personal connection. As a young lawyer, Mrs. Clinton served on the Watergate Committee with Mrs. Vilsack’s brother, Tom Bell."
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/26/the-vilsack-clinton-connection/
Christie Vilsack (middle) with Hillary ClintonThis is the same Christie Vilsack who was with Hillary when reports came out that they had stiffed the waitress at the Maid-Rite Restaurant (
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/10/middle-class-ex.html).
If you go to this site and click on the Obama link and go to 1 hr. 14 minute mark, you hear the discussion:
http://www.campaignnetwork.org/default.aspx Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) in Newton, IA (1 hr. 16 min.)
You can listen to the
MP3 of the exchange.