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Obama opens fire on Clinton (Roundup)
By Rich Bowden, M&C Staff Writer Jan 31, 2008, 11:58 GMT
Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama speaks at the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, USA, 30 January 2008. John Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, dropped out of the presidential race earlier in the day, leaving Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to battle it out in the Democratic contest. EPA/RICK GIASE
(M&C) - With third place getter John Edwards withdrawing from the race for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama has likened the choice between him and Sen. Clinton to being that of between the future and the past.
Speaking before a 10,000-strong crowd at the University of Denver he said Republicans will sharpen their attacks against Mrs Clinton's role during her husband's presidency.
"When I am the nominee, the Republicans won't be able to make this election about the past," Sen. Obama said. "That's what the Republicans are going to want to do. They are going to want us to look backwards, but they won't be able to do that with me. Because you will have already chosen the future."
The junior Illinois senator thanked the number of Democratic candidates who have now all but disappeared from the race. However, without mentioning the New York Senator by name, he said the Democratic party now needed to elect a unifying candidate.
He said they could win: "not by nominating a candidate who will unite the other party against us, but by choosing one who can unite this country around a movement for change."
However Mark Penn, strategist for the Clinton campaign described Sen. Obama's speech as "negative".
"His words in that speech were a summary of all the negative attacks, almost a 'greatest hits' of negative attacks he has launched throughout this campaign," he said to reporters. "They are false. They are personal. They are unwarranted."
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WE COMPLETELY SUPPORT SENATOR AND TWO TIME FIRST LADY HILLARY CLINTON!who has graciously with stood all the biased media attacks on a white woman, (wich is disgusting)the media fighting obamas battles for him because he has no substance and merit! she is HANDS DOWN the stronger candidate WHO IS ABLE AND PROVEN SHE CAN FIGHT THE BATTLES AND WILL GET THINGS DONE FOR ALL AMERCIANS NOT JUST BLACK VOTERS ( like obama camp)! Who else on earth has tolerated the unbelievable lies and attacks and spins then Hillay and still she fights on for the middle class, she takes her licks and keeps going un like obama who keeps hiding behind the likes of oprah and now old crazy guy teddy. Who cares what caroline says. She now has clout? for what?
The Kennedys have been nothing but disgraceful scandles in the last 25 years, relatives accused of murders, rapes etc and that gives the Kennedy name clout? Don't think so... Ted Kennedy is now go headed for a disgraceful end. The Massachusetts senator has been caught in a sneaky plot to kill a clean-energy project in Nantucket Sound. Seems he doesn't want to see wind turbines from his waterfront estate. 'Don't you realize -- that's where I sail!' he famously said.
The Obama campaign has criticized Hillary Clinton's candidacy as another example of dynastic politics. But now that Obama is playing adopted son of the Kennedy clan, that argument falls apart. Kennedy mystique Is so much JUST hot air. OBAMA IS A JOKE
Obama's Relationship With Rezko Goes Back 17 Years. Obama Kept Contributions From Accused Fixer's (REZKO)Wife And Others ABCNews.com Analysis Shows the Campaign Still Hasn't Returned More Than $100,000 in
Obama is referred to in document which outlines case against Rezko
As Barack Obama is finding out, it's not as easy to dump politically toxic campaign donations as it might seem. For the third time in more than a year, Obama's presidential campaign announced this week it was shedding more donations tied to indicted fundraiser Antoin 'Tony' Rezko. Calculations by the media and Obama's own staff of Rezko's financial impact on his past political campaigns have been all over the map and shifting. In the case of Obama, public records don't make clear every Rezko connection. The records show that since 1995, $74,500 came from Rezko, his relatives or contributors listed on official disclosure forms as employees of one of his businesses. Rezko has not raised money for Obama's presidential campaign.
Various media outlets have reported much larger numbers, though they haven't clearly explained their methodology. The New York Times has pegged Rezko political cash for Obama at $150,000, the Sun-Times at $168,000 and the Los Angeles Times at $200,000. Last weekend, a report by ABCNews.com suggested more than $185,000. The event at Rezko's home resembled a posh dinner party, complete with valet parking and catered dinner. Obama spoke after the meal, and told the crowd about how when he was still in Harvard law school Rezko, a developer, had tried to hire him. Obama staffers set up shop around the kitchen table, where they collected checks.
One donor at the event was Michael Sreenan, a former attorney for a Rezko company. Sreenan gave Obama $2,000 that night, but hasn't heard if the campaign now plans to give it away.
Still, Sreenan said he was baffled by the notion of giving money raised at Rezko's home to charity. 'If [Obama] wants to give my donation back to me or let me give it to a charity, I'm fine with that,' he said. 'But I don't see how this makes a difference now -- the money still got him elected. And how do I know it's not going to a charity that's offensive to me?'
**(Ms. Obama, vice-president for external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals, putting out feelers indicating she'd like to get some corporate management experience. As if working for a hospital that charges uninsured minorities 5.4 times as much for drugs as Whites with insurance isnt enough cold hearted corporate experience. Plus she cause hundreds to loose their 11.hr jobs she said to be more efficent)
In 2005, she was also elected to the board of directors of west suburban Westchester-based TreeHouse Foods, which calls itself the nation's largest pickle and pepper supplier. For that, she received $12,000 and $33,000 from a subsidiary.
On Nov. 26, it announced plans to close its La Junta, Colo. plant, a move that claimed the jobs of 153 workers, most of them Hispanic a big blow to a rural town with only 9,500 residents. The jobs paid a starting wage of $11 an hour, good pay for the area. I share the sentiment. Companies that pay top execs tens of millions a year while squeezing the little guys on the production line or in the back office are destroying middle-class America.
Which raises a question not about corporate values but about Mr. Obama's values. Specifically, while Mr. Obama bashes Wal-Mart, why does his wife, Michelle, make $45,000 a year serving on the board of a Chicago-area company that pays its executives a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in an economically deprived area, a company whose No. 1 customer is you guessed it Wal-Mart? In early 2005, Texas-based Dean Foods Co. spun off its processed-food subsidiary into an independent company, TreeHouse Foods Inc. Stock in Westchester-based TreeHouse began trading on June 15, 2005. Elected to its board of directors on June 6 of that year was Michelle Obama, who receives $30,000 a year plus $1,500 per board or committee meeting she attends. That totaled $45,000 in 2005, according to Mr. Obama's Senate ethics disclosure. Ms. Obama got 7,500 stock options this year, company filings show. At the current price of TreeHouse stock, she has a paper profit of about $60,000 on the options.
Reportable charitable to the Trinity United Church of Christ $5,000 and $11,315 AP
The WSJ has an op ed piece by a Michael Zeldin. He waxes on about Hillary's legal involvement in White Water.
Apparantly, Hillary charged Obama with representing a Chicago slum lord, but forgot to mention her own involvement with land hucksters in Arkansas.
I guess we're now going to see Hillary's resume'!
Regardless of who is a candidate, there will always be something found that would go against them...........vote for the lesser of the evils - whoever that turns out to be......
Someone pass the popcorn.
I'm votin fer Nader.
Where the hell is Nader, Hightower and good ol Chomsky !!
Want to change your mind about voting for Clinton..........
Check out the Dead and the Clintons = the list is still growing !
Then read up on the massive amount of money she has taken from the Jews, and has not answered 1 question in regards to favors from the money she has taken from them. So much money to become President these days, it all comes with strings attached to it. Banking to Military action. Wait we took money from China oh great now what favors do we owe them !! ..........
Lost your 'J O B' ? Both Clinton's open the flood doors to NAFTA. Anyone willing to travel with me to South America to take a good hard look at what NAFTA has done, just ask !!
The Cu_t whoops Hillary, was more of a supporter of the WAR and NAFTA, then her front runner...
Latest news form the Draft dodgers, that's Bush and Cheney. Bush was told by the Non Existing State of Israel, their military would do some action against Iran, then wanted the US Military to finish off the job, or they will not give us the money to keep our country running. Looks like we have to look for China to keep the US open for business.....
All those that think The Draft Dodgers are still doing a great job in Iraq, why don't you have your kids go sign up to fight in Iraq. The draft is around the corner. The Military needs 'SMART KIDS', and they are not signing up............NONE!!
And so it is................
They (the republicans)are going to want us to look backwards.
That is because the republicans ARE backwards. They are a bunch of knuckle dragging Neandethals. SP4-F is a prime example.
You mean he's actually going to say something that really means nothing and the dems are going to bless it???????
Golly! Who knew!?
I say let's ask Obama about his CURRENT job, as one of the shepards of Illionois.
My favorite: East St Louis.
Gee...Barak...spent any time campaigning there??? What a lovely place! All that extra work you've done is really paying off!
Perhaps the junior senator has some...unfinished?...work?....to go BACKWARDS...and address?
Perhaps it's time to wake up and see this guy for what he is: Unexperienced, no executive experience, no political machine and a whole lot of talk. You're going to hear stuff like 'going backwards' a lot, because it's all he has.
Besides, McCain is about as much of a democrat as he is!
To SP4,
God, it could not be more perfect for our resident neo-con. McCain or Obama or McCain or Clinton. Either way idiots like SP4 looses his neo-con idol worship. McCain is definately not my choice and I don't think he will be successful, but it could have been worse---Romney, Guiliani, Huckster, or worse.
elect pee wee herman.
opp's forgot we elected him in 2000 and 2004
'The WSJ has an op ed piece by a Michael Zeldin. He waxes on about Hillary's legal involvement in White Water.'
Sp fool is an illiterate moron. Waxes is a term meaning growing bigger and stronger. It is commonly used as waxes and wanes, as in the moon's phases. Or did he mean waxes lyrical, which is to talk about something with a lot of interest and excitement. Or did he mean that Hillary got her arse polished as well as her legs?
SPidiot is so stuck in the past that he has grown moldy. White Water? Ancient history. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. A lot of other stuff too.
Senator Obama has the integrity and judgement to lead this country. The tone of the Democratic contest is as civil as it is because of him. One has already seen for years, other candidates' use of misleading and dividing political strategies in order to win, including years of the Clintons, which is what he is trying to say is wrong with the political process/system and what the people of the United States have been tired of for a long time. We had lost hope that there would be a political candidate who would say things as we saw it and truly had the interests of the people at heart. He stands out as a politician because he behaves as we expect a leader to behave. He has the support of so many people across the range of races, incomes, Republicans and Independents and Democrats because we all recognize that he has the common best interest at heart and he is able to bring that out in each of us. I hope he has the chance as President of the United States to use that ability to bring out the common best interest of the nations to save our world.
And Clinton has a witch cackle laugh... that would be hard to bear...
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ObamaRamaJan 31st, 2008 - 12:30:06
Listenup you guys,
With Ron Paul looming in the distance we better get behind Obama
cause she's the only one who can beat Ron Paul in the General Election.
Hillary will lose it because she's not really against the iraq war,
and Obama is for real.
Hillary stands for a draft when she gets us bogged down over in Iraq,
and the Ron Paul people kno this - that's why she is
constantly rated as being the 'one to beat'.
Only Obama has the tools to stand up to that whiny little freak from Texas
who has the broken-record refrain of ending the Iraq mess.
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