Obama Accuses Clinton of “Bankrolling” Re-Vote
(CBS)
From CBS News' John Bentley
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Hillary Clinton’s campaign is hitting Barack Obama on two fronts today, releasing his records and primary re-voting. “Senator Obama speaks passionately on the campaign trail about empowering the American people,” Clinton said. “I am urging him to match those words with actions, to make sure states like Michigan and Florida have a voice and a vote in the next election.”
The Obama campaign responded that Clinton is trying to buy the primaries. They cite a letter from Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., and Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., written to Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich., that offers to pay for the re-vote. “This letter from some of Clinton’s biggest campaign contributors eliminates any pretense that Clinton’s efforts in Michigan are about anything other than an attempt to bankroll an election in which they appear more than happy to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters,” said Obama spokesman Bill Burton. “Today’s events are even more evidence that Clinton is willing to do absolutely anything to get elected.”
And on the heels of Hillary Clinton releasing her public schedules from her days as First Lady, the Clinton campaign is calling on Barack Obama to release his documents from his time in the Illinois state senate. Obama has said previously he didn’t keep files for several years as a state senator because of space limitations.
Back on the campaign trail, Obama will deliver the third in a trifeca of policy speeches today, this one concerning the economy. He heads to West Virginia later this morning to give the speech at the University of Charleston.
At the time, I empathized with his situation, yet I was amazed by Hillary''s lack of outrage over it.
A normal human being, after being stepped out on as many times as has HRC, would have filed for divorce long ago. Of course, theirs is a relationship that is anything but normal.
Though I always try to give the Clinton''s the benefit of the doubt -- WJC was, in fact, the only Dem to win the Oval Office in since 1976 -- he willingly trashed it and left us to try to rebuild the incredible damage.
Those vivid memories in voters minds, have kept us out of the White House for two cycles. But amnesia seems to have set in for 2008.
Leave your name on the MI ballot, as though you were the only Dem running, declare victory, look for empathy because you realize you''re losing, then cry foul because not everyone pity''s you in your self-imposed situation. Deja vu, all over again.
Stop the drama, vote Obama.
Why does is it seem that the adulterer JFK and Jackie''s stoic tolerance acceptable to many and Bill and Hillary''s past problems not?
Also, it seems that many people forget that Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 and still lost because of voting problems in Florida; brother Jeb Bush being the Governor at the time...
I think we were better off when Bill left office than we are today. So what mess are you referring to? That the 2000 election was a sham? Bill did not design that.
Correction: This should read, It''s time we unify behind a president who is both black and white and embraces all races of people.
By the way, those who say Obama "threw his grandmother under the bus". That''s absurd. You are speaking out of both sides of your mouth. How can you scorn him for not disowning Jeremiah Wright and feel like he should have stuck by his mother who has made some of the same harsh comments about black people? That''s a double standard. He was basically saying he loves and cherishes them both. He understands that they are from a different time and are dealing with issues of bitterness that he hopes the next generation can transcend.
It seems to go against the very grain of what I thought it meant to belong to the Democratic party. I am holding the moronic DNC responsible, when millions of disenfranchised voters from FL and MI aren''t supporting their party in November.
In October, she made statements that she didn''t care about Michigan and Florida votes.
6 months later, she''s losing so now it''s the right thing to do.
What does she do, she brings in her high paying lobbyists to try to buy America.
End of story!!!!!!!
Decision made.
Vote Obama
SEAT 50% of Fl.and Mi there rules
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by missglo
March 20, 2008 10:52 PM PDT
- Hillary kept her mouth close on the Rev. Wright issue. Why? because now floating on the net. Bill Clinton invited Rev. Wright to the White House twice. Why haven''t these News Hawks showed this on their broadcast. Bias ummmmm
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