Clinton: Voter's Decision Need To Be "Very Reasoned, Careful"
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, OHIO -- Hillary Clinton told a few hundred supporters at a tiny banquet hall just outside of Akron that Ohioans need to "make a very reasoned, careful decision" when picking a president.
"It is going to be so important for Democrats to study the two candidates to look at the records, to ask hard questions that you deserve the answers to really understand the differences."
Clinton delivered a watered-down version of her stump speech but made sure to continue to knock her opponent on a variety of issues including attacking his health care plan. "I believe that the Democratic nominee in 2008 has to stand firmly for universal health care."
Clinton continued, "He sends out mailings that sound like they've been written by the health insurance industry and the Republicans talking how we can't possibly get to universal health care. Yes we can, yes we can. In fact, I'll tell you: Yes we will, yes we will!" Clinton was referring to mailings Barack Obama sent out in Nevada and Utah that were very similar to the infamous "Harry and Louise" ads from the early '90s. The ad depicted a middle-aged couple at a dinner table with the words: "Hillary's health care plan forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can't afford it. Is that the best we can do for families struggling with high health care costs?"
Clinton continued to push the message that she is the candidate with the most experience to be president and part of that reason, she argues, has to do with her front row seat at the White House.
"Maybe it's because I've had the great honor and privilege of seeing that really hard job up close that I know there is a big difference between speeches and solutions and between talk and action."
Despite her tough talk toward Obama, Clinton did say that she has "the highest regard for" him adding, "We have been friends I have campaigned for him, and I think it is exciting to see the extraordinary campaign he is running."
This campaign stop was not a scheduled one and because of her diversion, she is now running an hour late to her scheduled event in Cleveland.