Hillary Calls Obama's Healthcare Ad "Misleading," Wants It Taken Down

Associated Press:

With new polls out this morning showing Barack Obama still leading Hillary Clinton in Iowa and gaining ground on her in New Hampshire, Clinton's national campaign manager is calling on Obama to remove an ad that began airing in the Granite State yesterday they said was "misleading".

Manager Patti Solis Doyle said the ad was inaccurate because the ad claims to "cover everyone" with healthcare coverage and his plan doesn't guarantee that every American will have coverage because they don't mandate every to have it as the Clinton and John Edwards plan do.

Read the whole story: Associated Press

Comments

[askmeificare]

11:51 PM on 12/02/2007

Yes, how dare Obama claim that his socialist health care plan would cover everyone when he knows it's a lie.

[SCharb]

02:06 AM on 12/02/2007

Hillary thinks that Obama's plan wouldn't cover all Americans. Well, technically not. It would make health care cheap and accessible to all Americans. Hillary's plan would force everyone to buy health care insurance even if they don't want to. That's called "communism", children.

Let's pretend health care is a chocolate bar. Obama wants to hand it to you.
Hillary wants to rip off the wrapper, force open your mouth, and stick it down your throat.

[drricklippin]

10:22 PM on 12/01/2007

Let's be honest. Here's where experience counts.

Hillary-despite her failure on health care reform in 1994- knows much more about health care than Obama does in his short tenured involvement in mational politics.

Obama is very new to the national health care reform table and has a lot to learn from seasoned politicians on this one.

Dr. Rick Lippin
http://medicalcrises.blogspot.com

[EastCoastKid]

05:36 PM on 12/01/2007

That headline sez it all about Hillary. Hillary demands....

Poor, poor Hillary. She suddenly doesn't feel so safe so she demands! that Barack take down that awful ad!

Note to Hillary: Get over yourself, already. This is a presidential election. Candidates go after candidates' positions ALL the time. If you can't handle an attack from a fellow Democrat, you have no business expecting to win the nomination for your party.

Lady, quit crying and deal with it!

Go RON PAUL, Barack Obama or John Edwards! anyone of those real candidates before MRS. Clinton ('its owed me').

[meese]

03:47 PM on 12/01/2007

Actually she's asking him to take down an ad that's been running for a month already. I guess she decided now that her inevitability isn't so inevitable, she'd start attacking other candidates.

[MAC2]

02:45 PM on 12/01/2007

Well Queen Hillary and Rupert don't like this plan. I guess poor old Obama didn't run it by the Queen and old man Rupert. If obama had any hair he would tell her to kiss his ass, if the guy wants to have that for his plan than he should do it with out that old lady saying shit.

Kick some ass Obama...............

[Wrong2bRight]

11:40 PM on 11/30/2007

The rights of the rich white people and doctors is not more important then the health of our citizens. I don't care who's money we need to take nor do I care about how the doctors and medical care personnel feel about working for the government.

[Dantheman99]

08:40 PM on 11/30/2007

Obama's stance on health care is weak. There is no denying it. Read Paul Krugman's editorial in the New York Times today.

Health Care is the most pressing domestic issue of our times.

Obama should change his plan. I don't think it would make him look weak. After 8 years of a pighead who won't admit to making a mistake even after he got caught lying the nation into war, it would be refreshing to have a President who can be educated and learn about an issue and evolve.

Obama could use Bush's pigheadedness as an excuse to letimately "evolve" on this issue.

However, he keeps running to the right, don't be suprised if he leaves some people at the intersection who stay on the road to the Greens.

I worry Obama is Gary Hart 2008. It's a good looking candidate who becomes the candidate of change, but ultimately gets charged with "Where's the beef" due to there being no substance to his style.

Edwards is still the best candidate, but lets face it, it's a bad year to be a white male when running for President this year when history can be made. Personally, I'd rather see history be made by a electing President who brings universal health care than some victory for tokenism.

[CalculatedRiskTaker]

06:16 PM on 11/30/2007

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2007/11/28/hillary.healthcare.cnn?iref=videosearch


The above is Hillary explaning the differance between her plan and Obama's plan.

[MRb1000]

04:47 PM on 11/30/2007

Hillary is mandating that Barack Obama take down is add telling the truth. This is funny.

[MRb1000]

04:28 PM on 11/30/2007

America will not be force to do anything!!! This is what makes this country great is we have a choice!!!

[Libsrule]

03:29 PM on 11/30/2007

Poor Hillary, wolves nipping at the heels dearie?

As for this health care plan, no matter who says what, the congress will never pass it unless it has a provision that the insurance companies get to make the most profit off of it.

[itsnotmyfault]

03:26 PM on 11/30/2007

I for one am getting pretty tired of Obama's pretending to represent change and a new breed of politics. He has in fact conducted his campaign at the lowest ebb possible and generously borrows from the despicable politics of Rovian destruction. Paul Krugman wrote a piece in the Times this am that addresses this very issue. I highly recommend it.

It concludes with the following:

"I recently castigated Mr. Obama for adopting right-wing talking points about a Social Security “crisis.” Now he’s echoing right-wing talking points on health care.

What seems to have happened is that Mr. Obama’s caution, his reluctance to stake out a clearly partisan position, led him to propose a relatively weak, incomplete health care plan. Although he declared, in his speech announcing the plan, that “my plan begins by covering every American,” it didn’t — and he shied away from doing what was necessary to make his claim true.

Now, in the effort to defend his plan’s weakness, he’s attacking his Democratic opponents from the right — and in so doing giving aid and comfort to the enemies of reform."

I recommend that Obama take heed. Or we will thank him for insuring some lunatic from the GOP wins in 2008.

[average joe]

02:31 PM on 11/30/2007

Hillary demands ins't that cute. In Rochester N.H. a bomber has take two of her people hostage I told you about people being upset with her CNN and you tube. The lies and drity tricks come back to get you.

[dantheman]

02:27 PM on 11/30/2007

Poor Hillary... Losing groung fast is be a wholly unexpected turn of events for her and the Clinton Machine. Obama says he has a plan to cover everyone. He doesn't say his current proposal covers everyone. Obama is working hard to enact healthcare reform that doesn't force everyone to buy it. Instead, his plan will take on the HMOs and change how healthcare works in this country. His plan guarantees healthcare for children. It also is the only plan on the table that will make healthcare more affordable, which will in turn make it easier for every American to afford healthcare. Hillary's plan forces everyone to buy healthcare, even those who can't afford it, yet it does absolutely nothing to lower healthcare costs. Do we need healthcare reform, as Obama proposes, or forced healthcare expenses, like Hillary wants? It should also be noted that Hillary is the only democrat running for president that has accepted money from the HMOs.