Clinton: Obama untested, just like Bush was...

[liberalnurse]

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/clinton_obama_is_untested_just.html


CINCINNATI — Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton lashed out at rival Barack Obama today for using a strategy out of “Karl Rove’s playbook” by making grandiose speeches of hope while sending Ohioans what she called “false and discredited mailings” on health care and trade policy.

“Shame on you Barack Obama,” Clinton told reporters after delivering a speech at Cincinnati Technical and Community College in which she reminded voters that in 2000, an untested George W. Bush called for change--just as Obama is now--and “the American people got shafted.”

Clinton questioned whether he was trying to undermine core Democratic principles by attacking her plans to expand health care and through a mailing on the North American Free Trade Agreement.

“Let’s have a real campaign. Enough of the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove’s playbook. This is wrong and every Democrat should be outraged because this is the kind of attack that not only undermines core Democratic values but gives aid and comfort to the very special interests and their allies in the Republican Party who are against doing what we want to for America,” she said.

“Time and time again, you hear one thing in speeches and then you see a campaign that has the worst kind of tactics, reminiscent of the same sort of Republican attack on Democrats,” Clinton asked.

Clinton said it was time Obama “ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public.”

[Danzo]

1. Obama WAS Dishonest

And FactCheck.com AGREES:

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html

[MeDeMax]

2. its FactCheck.org and the sin of the Obama mailers is omission not lies

according the link you provided.

Are you here to do a hit job on Obama for the Clinton campaign ?

[Danzo]

3. Lies Through Omission

The Obama mailer intentionally omits key facts in order to mislead people about Hillary Clinton's plan. I happen to consider that to be a form of dishonesty.

I also believe the hypocricy of Obama deriding the mandatory nature of Hillary's plan, even though Barack Obama's plan ALSO has a mandatory element, is a misleading thing to do.