Where did the love go?Clinton-Obama attacks get personal
"I'm sure that Sen. Clinton feels like she's doing me a favor because she's been deploying most of the arguments the Republican Party will be using against me in November and so it's toughening me up. I'm getting run through the paces here," Obama told The Associated Press' annual meeting.
"I understand my opponent came this morning and spent a lot of his time attacking me," [Hillary] said at the same forum where Obama launched his assault.
Obama Hits Clinton Over Free Trade Deals
"Here's what you can't do," Obama told a meeting of the Association of American Manufacturers in Pittsburgh. "You can't spend the better part of two decades campaigning for NAFTA and PNTR for China, and then come here to Pennsylvania, and tell the steelworkers you've been with them all along."You can't say you are opposed to the Colombia Trade deal, while your key strategist is working for the Colombia government to get the deal passed," he added.
Clinton Likens Obama to Kerry, Gore
"We had two very good men and men of faith run for president in 2000 and 2004," Mrs. Clinton said at a forum on faith televised live on CNN last night. "But large segments of the electorate concluded that they did not really understand or relate to or frankly respect their ways of life."
Obama: Clinton's the one out of touch with voters
"You know, there's been a lot of talk in this campaign lately about who's in touch with the workers of Pennsylvania. Sen. Clinton and Sen. McCain seem to be singing from the same hymn book, saying that I'm "out of touch" -- an elitist -- because I said a lot of folks are bitter about their economic circumstances.
"Now it may be that I chose my words badly. And it's not the first time and it won't be the last. But when I hear my opponents, both of whom have spent decades in Washington, saying I'm out of touch, it's time to cut through their rhetoric and look at the reality," he told the group.
What Clinton wishes she could say
Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won’t Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?
Here is why: She and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama’s likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naive Democrats just don’t see it. And a timid, pro-Obama press corps, in their view, won’t tell the story.
But Hillary won’t tell it, either.
A lot of coverage of the Clinton campaign supposes them to be in kitchen-sink mode — hurling every pot and pan, no matter the damage this might do to Obama as the likely Democratic nominee in the fall. In fact, the Democratic race has not been especially rough by historical standards.
What’s more, our conversations with Democrats who speak to the Clintons make plain that their public comments are only the palest version of what they really believe: that if Obama is the nominee, a likely Democratic victory would turn to a near-certain defeat.
Accused of being elitist, a defiant Sen. Barack Obama lashed out at rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, saying "Shame on her" and mocking her vocal support for gun rights as their political tempest threatened to consume the Democratic presidential race.
Faith Forum an Occasion for Obama-Clinton Sparring
"The lord is just waiting for us to respond to his call," Clinton said, "because this despair, this impoverishment of body and soul is what we are expected to be spending our time responding to, and so few of us do."
"The notion that somebody like myself," [Obama] continued, "who has been working in churches since I got out of college, and whose entire trajectory -- not just during this campaign, but long before -- has been to talk about how Democrats need to get in church, reach out to evangelicals, link faith with the work that we do. The notion that somehow I am standing above that -- when that essentially describes much of what I've been doing over the last 20 years -- doesn't make much sense."
Clinton plays elitist card against Obama
"I don't think [Obama] really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you," [Hillary] said, shortly after her campaign sent an e-mail saying Obama has "condescending views of Americans living in small towns."
Obama mocks Clinton's visit to an Indiana bar
Campaigning in Pittsburgh today, Obama say said candidates will do anything ... even "come around, with TV crews in tow, to throw back a shot and a beer." Clinton did just that at a stop Saturday at Bronko's restaurant in Crown Point, Indiana.
Hillary Clinton shortly after throwing back a shot and a beer
Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton: "You're No Annie Oakley"
Clinton responds to Obama “shame” commentsBarack Obama, still reeling over the scandalcaused by his remarks at a San Francisco fund raiser in which he seemed to insult small town Pennsylvanians, launched a counter attack against Hillary Clinton.
Besides criticizing her alleged stance on numerous free trade agreements, Barack Obama mocked Hillary Clinton for a new found interest in firearms. Senator Clinton reminisced about learning to shoot during summer vacations.
"She is running around talking about how this (meaning Obama's remarks in San Francisco) is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley," Obama said.
“For months, Barack Obama and his campaign have relentlessly attacked Hillary Clinton’s character and integrity by using Republican talking points from the 1990s. The shame is his,” [Clinton spokesman Phil] Singer said. “Sen. Clinton does know better — she knows better than to condescend and talk down to voters like Senator Obama did. Senator Obama’s outburst won’t change the fact that he has embraced his characterization of the millions of Americans who live in small towns.”
The Solution: Why not an old-fashioned WWE Smackdown?
“Forget about who’s better prepared when the phone rings at 3 a.m., and find out who’s better when the bell rings.
That's what it has come down to, folks. World Wrestling Entertainment has invited Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to settle their differences “the American way — in a wrestling match” on Monday Night RAW on the eve of the Pennsylvania primary.
Are they ready to rumbleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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