Clinton: Obama "Whining" About Debate

Candidates Battle Over "Gotcha" Debate Questions Prior To Tuesday's Democratic Primaries

(CBS/AP)  Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are complaining about which candidate is the biggest complainer.

The issue is their treatment in debates. Obama is objecting to the questions posed this week in one moderated by ABC News. Many of the toughest questions were targeted at Obama, the front-runner for the nomination, and he's said too much time was spent on political divisions instead of issues that matter to Americans.

Clinton said Friday that if Obama thinks the debate was tough, it pales in comparison to the pressures a president faces.

"I'm with Harry Truman on this - if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen," she told voters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. "Just speaking for myself, I am very comfortable in the kitchen."

But it wasn't so long ago that Clinton was the front-runner and complaining about her treatment in debates. After a debate last fall, her campaign compiled clips of her being targeted, and called it the "Politics of Pile On." In late February, Clinton complained that she always got asked the first question.

"Her blatant hypocrisy here is stunning," responded Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

The most recent debate Wednesday night was the most watched of this election cycle and has generated some negative reviews for ABC. Obama supporters have made some of the loudest objections, and the Obama campaign sent out a fundraising appeal off the debate titled "Gotcha."

Obama said Thursday that the moderators "like stirring up controversy and they like playing gotcha games, getting us to attack each other."

"Senator Clinton looked in her element," Obama added. "She was taking every opportunity to get a dig in there. That's her right to kind of twist the knife a little bit ... that's the lesson she learned when Republicans did it to her in the 1990s."

Clinton said Friday that getting tough questions is part of what happens in a debate and campaign. "Having been in the White House for eight years and seeing what happens in terms of the pressures and the stresses on a president, that was nothing," she said.

"We were both asked some pretty tough questions and that's part of what happens in a debate and in a campaign, and I know he spent all day yesterday complaining about the hard questions he was asked," Clinton also said in an interview with Philadelphia television station FOX 29, although Obama did not complain about the difficulty of the questions, just the substance.

"Being asked tough questions in a debate is nothing like the pressures you face inside the White House," she said, according to a transcript of her interview provided by her campaign.

Former President Bill Clinton also weighed in on the controversy, saying that "they have been beating up on us for 15 months."

"I didn't hear her whining when he said she was untruthful in Iowa or called her the senator from Punjab," Mr. Clinton said in St. Mary's, Pa. on Thursday. "And you know they said some pretty rough things about me too. But you know this is contact sport if you don't want to play keep your uniform off. But the truth is… this has been basically a positive campaign on the issues and on the records and on the experience. "

Both Clinton and Obama were campaigning in Pennsylvania Friday, which holds its primary Tuesday - their first contest in seven weeks. Obama leads Clinton in overall delegates, 1,638-1,496, but neither is close to achieving the 2,025 needed to win the nomination.

One of Clinton's supporters, New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, said Friday that Clinton needs a big win in Pennsylvania if she hopes to overtake Obama. A loss in the Keystone state would be "pretty much a door closer," Corzine said.

Another Clinton supporter encouraged her to challenge Obama all the way to the convention.

"I think I also speak for more than 1,500 delegates who want you to go to the convention and to fight for your right to represent our country as president of the United States," Luis Cortez said as he introduced Clinton to speak at Esperanza High School, the Philadelphia charter academy that he heads.

[obama8years]

canadafreepress.com/index.php/ article/2462

OBAMA Supporting Hamas, ISM, ayers, wright,

Who in there right mind would even consider letting this radical in the whitehouse. And first lady Obama thinks americans are mean and is finally proud of her country. Now we know why.

[obama8years]

What does Obama really think of Hamas?
We know what his pastor thinks.

canadafreepress.com/index.php/ article/2462

[obama8years]

I would Like to see Obama answer why he has so much support for Hamas when he says he doesnt.

Is Obama giving the Jews Lip Service(telling them what they want to hear) Actions speak louder than words.

The question is if we want a man in the White House who will regularly give his ear to the likes of a Reverend Wright, his and Sabeel%u2019s replacement theologies, and pro-terrorist propagandists like Ali Abunimah on a regular basis? In one sense, Obama could be considered the ISM%u2019s Manchurian candidate given his wide connections to ISM activists and campaign movements such as the Wheels of Justice Tour, Joseph Carr a.k.a. Joseph Smith, Hannah Mermelstein, Anna Baltzer and others.

[blackspirit3]

40 YEARS OF CLINTON RAPPING WOMEN

A 1969 charge by a Eileen Wellstone, said Clinton assaulted her after she met him at a pub near the Oxford University campus where the future President was a student.
In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton, who was a law student at the college.
In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law professor Bill Clinton groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse
Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton''s attorney general campaign, said he raped her in 1978;
From 1978-1980, Arkansas State troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually.
Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have *** with him shortly after she won her state crown.
Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton the then-governor exposed himself and demanded oral ***.
Sandra Allen James, President Clinton invited her to his hotel room during a political trip to the nation''s capital in 1991, pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress.
Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993.

[ranger1948]

there are a lot of voters that do not come on line and post or make comments much anywhere else. But on election day they will come out in droves and that will be the end of obama.

[ranger1948]

jesterbelle
Why don''t you go back to your street corner and try to earn some more nickels the way yoiu usually do.

[ranger1948]

rufisgufis
If he has the money then why doesn''t he pay his bills ?

[dem4hillary]

Not only is Obama very supported by the bigoted Rev. Wright(who said "God d**n America)but now he has been enodorsed by the terrorist group Hamas. Read about it at

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archive
s2/2008/04/020315.php

[popstom1]

yeah I don''t take oil money he spent 30.6 million
and still no nominee He can''t even buy the nomintion
so F-Obama

[minnick8-2009]

I can''t stand it that Obama might be President, and I can''t stand it that Clinton could actually be President. I love it how the Democrats are spending so much time tearing each other down and complaining about each other. I certainly do hope that it gives McCain a big edge come November.

[rufisgufis]

popstom1:

Try to keep up to date: Go to CNN.COM: Obama has $51,000,000.00 in his campaign account. In case that number is too long for you printed out like that, it means he has 51 million dollars. I think he can pay his bills with no problem.

[rufisgufis]

Wasn''t it Hillary who complained From Day One, while Edwards was still in the mix that they were: "piling up on me;" and didn''t she complain that the media was sexist against her, and didn''t she complain, and didn''t she complain them saying that: "She looked like a bag of flour with golf balls in her cheeks?" And did they say on SNL she was made to look like a dumpy chunk of lard?

As she said: "If you can''t stand the heat, go where it''s cool.

[popstom1]

You all were whining the The clinton campaign owed
$10.000 your boy Obama owes right now $600.000
now who is not pay his bills

[omaar-101]

Obamas is Whiter than most Whites here Hating him and are ..

So D@mn Fearful of Him !!

You Voted Bill Clinton & his Mentor was a Devout Hater of Blacks & Jews..

Get Over Yourselves

http://ca.reuters.com/article/ente

rtainmentNews/idCASP11129220080326




Reuters: The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston on Wednesday released a study in which it traced the family trees of all Three Presidential candidates to find they all had Famous Relatives, both Dead and Alive.

Note: It found Illinois Senator Barack Obama, whose mother is from Kansas, can claim at least SIX U.S. Presidents as distant cousins, including George W. Bush and his Father, Gerald R. Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman, and James Madison.

But other cousins include British Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill) -- and Brad Pitt who is a Ninth cousin linked back Edwin Hickman who died in Virginia in 1769.

"Obamas maternal ancestry includes the mid-Atlantic States and the South," said Christopher Child, a genealogist with NEHGC that dates back to 1845 and describes itself as the United States oldest and largest non-profit genealogical organization.

[omaar-101]

Obamas is Whiter than most Whites here Hating and are ..

So D@mn Fearful of Him !!

You Voted Bill Clinton & his Mentor was a devout hater of Blcaks & Jews..

Get Over Yourselves

http://ca.reuters.com/article/ente
rtainmentNews/idCASP11129220080326



Reuters: The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston on Wednesday released a study in which it traced the family trees of all Three Presidential candidates to find they all had Famous Relatives, both Dead and Alive.

Note: It found Illinois Senator Barack Obama, whose mother is from Kansas, can claim at least SIX U.S. Presidents as distant cousins, including George W. Bush and his Father, Gerald R. Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry S. Truman, and James Madison.

But other cousins include British Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill) -- and Brad Pitt who is a Ninth cousin linked back Edwin Hickman who died in Virginia in 1769.

"Obamas maternal ancestry includes the mid-Atlantic States and the South," said Christopher Child, a genealogist with NEHGC that dates back to 1845 and describes itself as the United States oldest and largest non-profit genealogical organization.

[obama8years]

The question is if we want a man in the White House who will regularly give his ear to the likes of a Reverend Wright, his and Sabeel%u2019s replacement theologies, and pro-terrorist propagandists like Ali Abunimah on a regular basis? In one sense, Obama could be considered the ISM%u2019s Manchurian candidate given his wide connections to ISM activists and campaign movements such as the Wheels of Justice Tour, Joseph Carr a.k.a. Joseph Smith, Hannah Mermelstein, Anna Baltzer and others.

canadafreepress.com/index.php/ article/2462

[telecom_1]

Obama Hussien Barak''s Preacher Prays That God Will Curse America, is also happy over 2000 Americans were killed in the World Trade Center Terrorist Attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5SEsKPLZ1U

[telecom_1]

Obama Hussien Barak''s Preacher Prays That God Will Curse America, is also happy over 2000 Americans were killed in the World Trade Center Terrorist Attack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5SEsKPLZ1U

[jesterbelle]

Tell the Obama campaign that. They''''ve been dirtbags since day one!


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Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 02:31 PM : Apr 20, 2008

Tell the Hillary campaign they were all dirtbags when they were applying for her campaign,LOL!I watch them on TV,and they''re all just like her.Lying *********,LOL!

[siderchange]

Even after a credible debate in TX, the press continued to focus on lack of funds, campaign instability, etc. rather than her initial credibility on the issues. Bosnia was wrong, but in Senator Clinton''s written book-- she was accurate and honest. Why should Obama harp on his texts all the time? Additionally, when the media and Obama campaigns heaped plenty of criticism on Clinton''s scheduling/diaries/etc. and tax returns, why did they focus on Monicagate upon reviewing over 11,000 pages of record before viewing more pertinent information? And you say that Clinton''s been more negative? Senator Clinton HAS provided the information, and all I''ve heard from Senator Obama is that HIS legislative documents as an IL represenative ''are incomplete''. Who''s fault is that, and why doesn''t he want to release this. What he did as an IL senator is as important is what Senator Clinton did as First Lady. How hypocritical!

Lastly, please review the following:

http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/PDFfiles/2008Election.pdf

This is the definitive reason why this campaign has lasted so long and in favor of the apprentice candidate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VeKppnBJ6U