Obama Says Clinton Presidency Could Be Another '94
ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Barack Obama said that Senator Clinton will have a difficult time breaking out the politics of the last 15 years, if she is president. Obama compared Clinton to her husband, saying that she will have a difficult time keeping a majority in Congress just as President Clinton did in 1994.
"Keep in mind we had Bill Clinton as president when in '94 we lost the House, we lost the Senate, we lost the governorship, we lost state houses and so regardless of what policies they wanted to promote, they didn't have a working majority to bring change about," Obama told the crowd of over 3,000.
Obama repeatedly said that he is more capable of beating John McCain than Clinton is, citing polls which show that he beats McCain in a hypothetical general election matchup.
"I can get more independent votes and more Republican votes and offset whatever advantages he may have and actually succeed," Obama said referring to McCain. "I think that Senator Clinton starts off with 47% of the country against her, that's a hard place to start if you want to win an election."
Obama also accused Clinton of raising more money from special interests than McCain.
"We have funded our campaign with $25, $50, $100 donations from people in this audience. And so that means that I am answerable to the public in a way that Senator Clinton who's raised more money from PACs and special interests than John McCain has, hasn't."