Obama re Spitzer: Past Clinton sex scandals should not be issue for voters now

[Adelante]

Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama today expressed sympathy for disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned yesterday in the midst of a prostitution scandal.

Watch the VIDEO HERE.

"Obviously it’s a tragedy," Obama said. "It's heartbreaking for the family, but I suspect that it would not have been possible to function as governor."

Pressed by reporters, Obama suggested the various sex scandals of the Clinton years should not be an issue for voters now.

"Sen. Clinton should be judged on her own merits," he said.

"People can actually draw maybe better conclusions from how our respective campaigns have been run where both I'm in charge of my campaign and she is in charge of hers," he said.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/03/obama-calls-spi.html

I couldn't get the video to work, but here is the link:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4445019

[Metric System]

1. Was he asked about the sex scandals, or did he bring the subject up himself? Because if he did, then

he did so to get the press talking about it again.

[Adelante]

2. .

Pressed by reporters, Obama suggested the various sex scandals of the Clinton years should not be an issue for voters now.

[thevoiceofreason]

3. The reporters brought it up -- repeatedly

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. reporters pressed him

[ampad]

9. Oh brother

One more time people just in case folks decide to come up with their own conclusions because reading is so lame, geesh.

[Schema Thing]

7. Can you read?

[City Lights]

10. Pathetic. Try reading before looking for an opportunity to attack Obama.

Really sad on your part. Desperately so. :thumbsdown:

[Window]

12. Sorry. Not his style.

[malik flavors]

22. Wow, learn how to read. Sheesh.

[anamandujano]

5. He's trying to get out in front of the Rev Wright story that's about

to hit like a ton of bricks.

[angie_love]

13. You refuse to see the positive in anything in life don't you?

[anamandujano]

17. I think he's hoping Hillary will say something similar about the Wright fiasco.

He's only positive when it serves him.

[ericgtr]

20. He can't say anything to satisfy the Hillary militants

Here he was "asked" and took the high road, he didn't say "I'll take her at her word", he didn't ignroe it, he simply put it to rest and did the right thing. You fucking people amaze me sometimes.

[pampango]

27. I hope he's not holding breath waiting for Hillary to say something "similar" and "positive"

about Wright or anything else about Obama.

[roguevalley]

24. If we're going to do dueling pastors, lets talk about Hillary's bible

club and their millennarian bullshit and the rest. She consorts with religious idiots too.

[TheWraith]

6. That's how a candidate with CLASS behaves.

As opposed to, say, "He's not a Muslim TO MY KNOWLEDGE."

[Metric System]

11. A quote that is completely twisted and taken out of context.

[City Lights]

14. Some people speak clearly and are ready to lead on day one.

Others, not so much. :D

edited for typos

[TheWraith]

25. I saw the video. And it wasn't taken out of context.

Intentionally or not, she very clearly hesitated and hedged in her response, making it far from unqualified. And knowing the rest of her campaign, I suspect it was intentional.

[ampad]

16. Yes because he could of reminded people of all kinds

of sex scandals and we all know how Americans love a good sex scandal even the rehashed ones. Some of these Hillary supporters crack me up with the grasping of straws. Oh Rev wright, he is soo offensive, now Fearro well she is just a strong woman speaking her mine. Obama is probably not even thinking about Rev Wright but I bet Hillary is thinking about Fearro and I bet she is being reminded of it. I also bet Hillary is trying to figure out some way to keep those tax returns from being brought up in the media. Geesh, so much sour grapes over this Fearro thing. It would be funny if it wasn't so damn sad.

[DarienComp]

8. Classy.

Even with the media badgering him, he manages to stay above the bullshit.

[anamandujano]

19. His way of staying above the bullshit was to cut and run when they

wanted a few answers on Rezko.

[DarienComp]

23. what the hell would you know about staying above the bullshit?

You've got nothing but cheap shots about a non-story with absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing by Obama at all.

[Adelante]

15. If somebody comes up with an alternate video link, please post here

Thanks.

[Diane R]

18. Obama continually impresses me. No cheap shots from him...he'll make a great president.

[Straight Shooter]

21. He's not in charge of his campaign. Axelrod, Gibbs, Plouffe, et al., are in charge.

You're funny, Obama.

[democrattotheend]

26. I did not see anything about Bill's sex scandals in that

That could be what the reporter meant, but I didn't pick up on that. I interpreted the question to mean would Clinton be hurt by this because Spitzer was a friend and an endorser...didn't even think of the Bill angle. But that makes more sense now.

[mathewsleep]

28. he should have said "as far as i know."