Obama responds to Hillary's tirade - says it may be a tactical move (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

Obama responds to Clinton 2:41
Sen. Barack Obama says Sen. Hillary Clinton's response to his campaign mailings may be a tactical move.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/02/23/obama.speech.cnn

[ronnykmarshall]

1. Oh my!

[MoJoWorkin]

2. He just keeps getting better and better!

[Yael]

3. That was beautiful

Mrs. Clinton never thought Ohio would come into play -- or that anyone would dig into her past to show how non-liberal she is like this. She assumed that after Feb 5th, it would all be about how 'too liberal' she is.

WAKE UP CALL.

[Skwmom]

4. No duh. She is playing the sympathy card once again.

[Medusa]

5. Maybe we should start a pool to take bets on when the tears

will begin to fall again. :eyes:

[mckeown1128]

12. No she used the tears twice... she can't get away with it anymore..

she is on to different emotions. Today's was anger.

[Skwmom]

20. Also she's trying to paint Obama as the typical, dirty, politician (no

even worse - he's in the same league as Karl Rove). ROFL

[shadowknows69]

6. Video isn't working for me

[woolldog]

7. what message are you getting?

what browser do you use? Are you flash enabled?

[gateley]

18. Ditto for me - both Safari and Firefox - flash enabled on both. :-(

[high density]

10. I can't get any of them to play either

I watched Clinton's clip a couple of hours ago on their site so I don't know what has changed since then.

[Crunchy Frog]

24. Me neither. n/t

[bigbrother05]

8. Thanks for posting

right on point

[woolldog]

9. Poor guy.

He looks and sounds absolutely exhausted.

[shadowknows69]

11. huh, now every video but Obamas response works

I hope it's because a lot of people are checking it out. MSNBC doesn't even have his side of it up but they have the Hillary clip.

[high density]

14. it just started working for me

They must have had some sort of outage.

[Barack_America]

13. Ya think? Is Hillary aware that Oscar voting has already been completed?

:eyes:

[The Ghost]

15. Presidential v. Un-presidential

its a stark contrast

[BringBigDogBack]

17. yes.

[gateley]

16. SELF DELETE - I wasn't the only one having troubles -- I'll try it again.

[leeno]

19. OBAMA DEFENDS HIS MAILINGS

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/23/695284.aspx

Obama vigorously defended two negative mailers dropped in Ohio that Hillary Clinton says came “straight out of Karl Rove’s playbook.”

The mailing, one on NAFTA and the other on health care, raised the ire of the New York senator, who forcefully pushed back against them at a press conference earlier today.

Saying that the mailers had been out for weeks, Obama suggested that Clinton’s fiery reply this morning may be a political stunt rather than a genuine reaction. “I am puzzled by the sudden change in tone. Unless these were just brought to her attention, it makes me think that there’s something tactical about her getting so exercised this morning."

He added: “And unlike some of the attacks that have been leveled about me that have been debunked by news organizations, these are accurate. Sen. Clinton, as part of the Clinton Administration, supported NAFTA. In her book, she called it one of the Administration’s successes. And we point that out in a state that has been devastated by trade and has been deeply concerned about the position of candidates on trade.”

Obama was pressed on his health-care mailer, which when it appeared weeks earlier had been compared to the Harry and Louise ads that scuttled Clinton’s attempt to pass universal health-care in 1993. The ad that Clinton held in her hand and emphatically gestured with during her press conference was the health-care mailer.

“I have seen the mailer and I completely dispute that characterization. There are many people who support Senator Clinton who support health-care mandates who didn’t like the characterization of it. But there wasn’t anything inaccurate in what was said,” Obama said.

He went on to say that there was nothing “factually inaccurate” about the mailer.

“What think Senator Clinton would argue is that she doesn’t like how the mandate is characterized, because she wants to characterize it as universal health care. Just like I don’t like her characterizing my plan as leaving 15 million people out. But there’s nothing in that mailing that is inaccurate. When she says she’s going to mandate health care, and her own experts have indicated this a mandate does not work unless you propose harsh stiff penalties on those who don’t purchase it and that’s what we point out in this mailer.”

The mailer in question, however, appears to be deceptive in that it quotes a college newspaper in its harshest attack on Clinton. The quote reads: “…forcing those who can’t afford it to buy health insurance…,” which leaves out the fact that Clinton’s plan, like Obama’s, has strong subsidies.

It's worth noting, though, that the Clinton campaign has also sent out mailers distorting Obama's positions. One used Obama’s “present” votes in the Illinois state legislature to claim that he is anti-choice, a false assertion. And another attacked Obama on Social Security, claiming that he would raise taxes on working families a “trillion dollars.”

[gateley]

22. Thanks - I was finally able to get it to play (DU must have crashed it! :-)

This gives a little more depth, and I appreciate it! :hi:

[gateley]

21. I can't help but feel that if I watched Hillary's clip, followed by Obama's,

I'd view Obama as coming across as more mature and adult, Hillary a bit over-the-top.

[psychopomp]

23. Sen. Obama is proving to be extremely tough

The way he handled this issue was as well-presented and concise as could have been expected.

He is demonstrating by the deft handling of negative attacks from Team Clinton that he is ready to be President--today.

[Scurrilous]

25. K & R

:thumbsup:

[leeno]

26. For those like me that can't get the CNN video to work

Here's another (on fox news!)

Obama Responds to Clinton’s Scolding
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/02/23/obama-responds-to-clintons-scolding/

[OnionPatch]

27. This one works but

I wouldn't scroll down and look at the comments. :puke: