Clinton, Obama Trade Negative Attacks

But Obama Says Either Democrat, As Well As McCain, Would Be Better Than Bush

(AP)  Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama swapped some of the most negative attacks of the campaign two days before the Pennsylvania primary, each unleashing television ads Sunday that accused the other of maintaining ties to special interests they both claim to reject.

Obama also paid the Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting a backhanded compliment. "Either Democrat would be better than John McCain," he told an audience in Reading. "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."

That drew a feisty rebuke from Clinton, who said, "We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain."

With the Republican nomination long since secure, McCain reported his best fundraising month of the campaign, and criticized both Democrats for advocating higher taxes that he said would worsen any recession.

But he seemed more eager to criticize the front-runner, Obama, more than the former first lady. Obama's relationship with former 1960s radical William Ayers is "an open question," McCain said on ABC's "This Week." Without being asked, he said Obama had become friends with Ayers and "spent time with him while the guy was unrepentant over his activities as a member of a terrorist organization."

Ayers, an education professor, has been quoted in an interview as saying, "I don't regret setting bombs" decades ago. Obama has said Ayers lives in his Chicago neighborhood, but that they do not speak regularly.

Two days before the Pennsylvania primary with 158 delegates at stake, Obama and Clinton observed the rituals of Sunday campaigning: a visit to church, stops at restaurants catering to families, as many public events as possible.

And blanketing the state with attack ads.

"In the last 10 years Barack Obama has taken almost $2 million from lobbyists, corporations and PACs. The head of his New Hampshire campaign is a drug company lobbyist, in Indiana an energy lobbyist, a casino lobbyist in Nevada," said a new Clinton commercial airing in the campaign's final days.

If anything, Obama upped the ante with his rebuttal. His ad said he "doesn't take money from special interest PACs or Washington lobbyists - not one dime." Clinton does, it added, and accused her of "eleventh-hour smears paid for by lobbyist money ...."

Preprimary polls show Clinton with a lead in the state she must win to sustain her candidacy.

Overall, Obama has 1,638 delegates to 1,498 for Clinton in the latest CBS News count, with 2,025 needed to clinch the nomination.

He also leads Clinton by 1,411-1,243 among delegates won in primaries and caucuses, while she has the advantage, 255-227, among superdelegates, the party officials who attend the convention by virtue of their positions.

More than 300 superdelegates remain publicly uncommitted and, in interviews, many told the AP they want a candidate who can capture the White House. At the same time, others said that before deciding which contender to support, they will give special weight to the candidate with the most delegates won in primaries or caucuses, or the one who won their state or congressional district.

Even Clinton's allies concede she must win the Pennsylvania primary, and some have suggested she needs a sizable victory if she is to have a chance of overtaking Obama. But as was the case in other states, a strong popular vote win would not necessarily translate into a major gain in delegates for the former first lady.

[quatty]

It''s called COLD WAR people. When dealing with the likes of the president of Iran, the threat of force is the only language they know. Barack Obama would "have talks" with them. An expected answer from a junior senator who has yet to finish his first term. Of course, his spiritual advisor is bedfellow of Farrakhan. How sweet and polite "talking" would be effective while millions of Israelis would be obliterated by Iran? Get real - Middle East politics never solved anything by sweet talk. Obama will go down as another Kerry and Dukaikis. I''ll write-in Clinton''s name if she doesn''t get the nomination.

[jack3213]

HILLARY SPEAKS OF NUKING IRAN- ARE YOU F* N CRAZY? ANYONE WHO REFUSES TO IGNORE THIS BIT FROM THIS NUT IS TRULLY IGNORANT. BESIDES, ANYONE WHO IGNORES OBAMA IN A CHURCH THAT SPEWS HATE OF THE USA FOR 20 YEARS IS ALSO JUST PLAIN CRAZY. LOL.

I AM TRULLY AMAZED AT THE LEVEL OF THE NOT SO BRIGHT INDIVIDUALS WHO SEEM TO HAVE SUCH SHORT MEMORIES AND OR REFUSE TO LEARN AND FOCUS ON THE FACTS ABOUT SOMEONE BEFORE SUPPORTING/VOTING FOR THEM. I REALIZE THERE IS A SOLID 35% THAT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY- BUT FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNSURE- IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU DON''''T THINK OF THIS AS A HIGH SCHOOL -RALLY- BUT MORE OF A ROLE THAT SOMEONE WILL BE CHOSEN FOR -THAT REUQIRES QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERAINCE/& CREDIBILITY. NEITHER DEMOCRAT HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO LEAD A COUNTRY AND HAS LIED MORE THAN BUSH IN A SHORTER AMOUNT OF TIME. WAKE UP ALREADY OR SHUT UP LATER, BECAUSE PEOPLE HATE TO HEAR '' I TOLD YOU SO''

[rufisgufis]

Now Hillary is talking about "obliterating Iran." Doesn''t she realize that she it talking about killing millions of innocent men, women and children? She is already partly responsible for the death of about a million Iraqis and the dispossession of millions more. Has she no humanity in her at all?

The only war she has seen is fictional account of her "corkscrew landing in Bosnia and dodging bullets as she ran across the tarmac. I believe this woman is truly sick.

[k_c_waters]

The Clinton campaign now wants to resort to fear touting Pearl Harbor, Osama Bin Laden, and the Berlin Wall? Why didn%u2019t her campaign use more recent events that occurred during the Clinton administration like the bombing of the USS Cole (October 12, 2000) or the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania (August 7, 1998)?! I%u2019ll tell you why, because the Clinton administration showed inaction on those events! Now Hillary has the audacity to use fear mongering? Hillary%u2019s now pandering to the old and scared (hence the reference to Pearl Harbor). Think about it.

Obama 08%u2019

[kansas1946]

I don''t trust Hillary Clinton any further than I can throw her. She has been all over the map on the war. She insists on cramming her same old health care plan down everyone''s throat, wheter they want it or not. She is stooping to Republican tactics to attack you opponent. Not Hillary. Not ever.

[kansas1946]

Nearly 30 years after surrendering to police, Ayers and Dohrn, both in their 60s, are tenured university professors whose work on school reform and juvenile justice have won them bipartisan respect.

Ayers is an informal adviser to Mayor Richard M. Daley and has been awarded more than $50 million in charitable grants for his promotion of small schools as a solution to a crisis in education. Dohrn lectures widely on children''s law and serves on a variety of boards and committees. Together, they have raised three boys in the intellectual haven of Hyde Park, where Sen. Barack Obama is a neighbor.
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Ooooohhhh...scary John McCain. Is this that horrible "radical" that Obama supposedly knows??? A guy that has used his life for good after he made mistakes. Gets grants from the government for his work. My God. How low you have gone from 2000. Either you have lost your mind, John, or the evil that infested the Republican party when they went after you in 2000 has moved into your soul. You are pathetic and don''t deserve to be president with idiot comments about Barack''s association with this "radical."

[rufisgufis]

K_C_Waters:

"Bill Clinton once said that those who base their campaigns on the past are certain to lose; people want to know what you will do in the future."

This is a campaign bit right out of the right-wing scare book. Clinton is showing her true colors. I wonder if she got this idea from Karl Rove.

[rufisgufis]

Now this clown Hillary is talking about "obliterating Iran." The only thing she knows about war is "dodging sniper bullets in Bosnia." She''ll never send my sons to die in Iran.

[rowdytexan2]

Go Hillary Go! Take this corrupt shill DOWN! Fight like a tiger! Rip him apart like he''s been doing for a year and half now!

A vote for this shill is a vote for an anti-America agenda, NOT a democratic agenda! Obama has totally tried to distort the successes of the democrats! He does not unite the democrats, he is a separatist!

[k_c_waters]

The Clinton campaign now wants to resort to fear touting Pearl Harbor, Osama Bin Laden, and the Berlin Wall? Why didn%u2019t her campaign use more recent event during the Clinton administration like the bombing of the USS Cole (October 12, 2000) or the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania (August 7, 1998)?! I%u2019ll tell you why, because the Clinton administration showed inaction on those events. Now Hillary has the audacity to use fear mongering? Hillary%u2019s now pandering to the old and scared (hence the reference to Pearl Harbor). Think about it.

Obama 08%u2019

[blackspirit3]

WHO WILL BE THE SECRETARY OF DIAPERS IF MC-STAINS IS PRESIDENT - I BET IT WILL BE HANNEDY, HE WOULD LOVE TO WIPE MC-STAINS BUTT

[intheshade-2009]

It seems like people are grasping at straws trying to find some little gotcha against Barack Obama. They are finding he went to the same cocktail party where somebody else was present, or was part of the same community activist group as somebody else. All very tenuous and tedious. Especially after you have heard it for the umpteenth time. Why didn''t the debate ask Hillary Clinton about her direct personal, professional and financial connections with Whitewater and the Rose Law Firm? Partners like Jim Guy Tucker, Webster Hubbell and Jim and Susan McDougal. More than 14 associates convicted of more than 40 crimes, bribery, fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy, and embezzlement. Most were pardoned by Bill Clinton. Hilary crooked the deals, Bill pardoned the criminals. These were real associations with strong criminal implications, why are they not scrutinized?

More recently Hillary Clinton mentioned that she wants to install a nuclear umbrella over the Middle East so that the United States can attack any country at will, and protect countries like Israel from threats from other countries. She is the same person that voted with conviction for the illegal invasion of Iraq and now denies it. The news media never picked up on this umbrella statement both instead tries to focus our attention on matters of lapel pins.

[watcher269-2009]

TOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDD!

A vote for McCain is a vote for a Presidential ZOMBIE!

[watcher269-2009]

The mainstream media ask Obama why he doesn''t wear a flag pin, but they aren''t asking McCain why he doesn''t release his medical records. McCain, who would be the oldest man ever elected president, had surgery for melanoma, a potentially fatal skin cancer, eight years ago -- the scar is still prominent on his face. He has promised several times to release the records, but each release has been postponed.

It makes you wonder: is there something in McCain''s medical records that he doesn''t want you to know?

The McCain campaign''s explanation: his doctors are too busy. "The reason for the delay is because they want to gather all his doctors for a press conference to answer reporters'' questions," CNN reported, "and May is the soonest that can be done." Three doctors are expected to answer questions, according to the Arizona Republic.

[obama8years]

canadafreepress.com/index.php/ article/2462


PA put this thing to bed. Obama has too many associates that are extremly radical. Obama is extremely radical. why would he go to ayers house to meet liberal activist there and then he became friends with him.

Obama and Wright have a pro-hamas agenda, no matter what Obama says.

canadafreepress.com/index.php/ article/2462

[jld1959]

Sen Clinton tells the Indian government, that she supports the continuane of outsourcing

jobs to India! I think the voters should be outraged that any politician is for outsourcing premium American jobs.

Remember NAFTA anybody.

View the article and pass the word in PA.

http://www.indianembassy.org/India_Review/2005/April2005.pdf

On February 26, addressing the India Today Conclave

2005, the Senator urged Indian Industry to invest more in

her country. Though U.S. understood that economic

vibrancy of India was in its own interest, there are people

who feel left behind and might stir up %u201Cnegative feelings%u201D

against India because they do not understand the economic

benefits of outsourcing, Clinton remarked.

[blackspirit3]

40 YEARS OF CLINTON RAPING 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.

[zavatchen]

Elizabeth Edwards endorses Hillary Clinton''s Universal Health Care over Barak''s plan. So, is Barak attacking Elizabeth Edwards?