Obama Mocks Clinton Mocking Obama

Last Sunday, Hillary Clinton "stood in the rec center at Rhode Island College and mocked fellow presidential candidate Barack Obama for his campaign's theme of hope, saying Obama can't just 'wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear.'" [Watch video of Clinton here.] On Saturday, Obama took the same stage and couldn't resist bringing up her comments. CNN describes the scene:

"I think she was here, right?" Obama said toward the end of his stump speech. "She was saying 'Oh, you know, he thinks that the clouds will part and... [that] he's so naïve.'"

The room quickly erupted in "boos."

"Wait, wait, wait," he said.

"He thinks he can wave a magic wand," he continued, mocking Clinton's impression, "and suddenly everything will be great."

Obama then went in to his standard stump lines, saying it's true he "talks about hope a lot." He then defended his rationale in doing so.

Watch it:

Obama mocks Clinton for mocking him earlier about his message of hope. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1439819445http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1178199204

Comments

[EvSmith]

2 more days and than it's over.

[PTTY]

OBAMA’S REAL EXPERIENCE: HIS CANDIDACY

The best evidence of Obama’s readiness to lead the nation is the ability with which he has run for president. After all, what is more difficult, complicated, or challenging than getting elected president? What other life experience better illustrates one’s qualification to hold the office than a manifest skill in seeking it.


For anyone who has ever been elected president, the race that sent them to the White House was the single most important event in their lives and dwarfs any other experience they might have had before running.

As we have watched Obama surmount the hurdles that lay in his path, we cannot help but be impressed with his judgment. Adam Wallinsky, who served on Bobby Kennedy’s staff, once singled out good judgment as JFK’s most salient characteristic. Obama has faced so many delicate questions and issues and seems always to have the right feel for how to handle them.

At the start of the contest, he chose to avoid running as a black candidate for president and ran, instead, as a candidate who happened to have black skin. He crafted a middle course between the determined rejection of his race and its grievances of a Clarence Thomas and its emphatic embrace by a Jesse Jackson or an Al Sharpton. While Hillary invoked her gender at every turn, Obama decided to transcend his race rather than invoke it.

He began his candidacy eschewing donations from PACs and lobbyists, preserving his purity and giving him ground on which to stand in his claim to represent a new kind of politics, rejecting the special interests. When Hillary, whose campaign decisions have been as faulty as Obama’s have been flawless, wallowed in such donations, the Illinois Senator used the difference to paint her into the corner of the status quo candidate.
Beyond simply avoiding special interest money, Obama learned the lesson of Joe Trippi and the Howard Dean campaign of 2004 (even though Trippi was working for Edwards) and used his star power to develop a massive cyber-roots fund raising base which he mobilized again and again by the click of a mouse. He realized the potential of the Internet to democratize campaign funding in a way the other candidates in general, and Hillary in particular, did not. (Mrs. Clinton invested tens of millions in direct mail instead with all of its costs and limited returns).

When Hillary criticized him for lacking experience, he brilliantly seized the opening she provided by becoming the candidate of change. He realized, as Hillary and Bill did not, that America wanted a change beyond the Bush/Clinton oscillation and grasped the fact that Hillary’s emphasis on experience would play into his hands.

And when the Clintons tried to use race to derail Obama, he countered skillfully by making Super Tuesday a referendum on tolerance and inclusivity, overtly rejecting the racial polarization which seemed to have set in after South Carolina. Underscoring his message with victories in white states like Utah, Idaho, Colorado and North Dakota, he buried the race issue.

While the Clintons went for the knockout blows of winning New York and California, Obama created a fifty state organization to win each caucus state. As Hillary’s campaign wasted half a million dollars on flowers, Obama’s husbanded his resources to put teams on the ground in the small states where his organizing paid off and brought him sufficient victories to survive the loss of the two big Super Tuesday states.

And when the Clintons went to full time negatives, Obama carefully parsed the attacks he would answer from those he wouldn’t and disdained to engage in the tit-for-tat negative campaigning, realizing that the process turned voters off more than the negatives themselves ever did.
Will he be a good president? If he is half as skillful in serving as he has been in running, he can’t miss.



Obama has real leadership quality?"

The World has witnessed him building a national political machinery from the ground up, out fund raising all other candidates Republican and Democrats most of whom came into the race with better name recognition.

Obama winning The Over Seas Democratic Elections that makes it 11 straight primaries shows Fantastic Commander In Chief Qualities and Leadership.

Hillary and John McCain cannot mange their campaigns and they are in shambles. We can measure their failures at Campaign managing to that of their Failure to manager the United States Government.

[robbor]

mr. obama, no need to acknowledge the lady's behavior. you're tall; look over and past it.

[pithymaxim]

That's not mocking.

[STParker]

Just wanted to say Hi!

[DBo]

Not a single comment? Unbelievable. Totally.

[sparkandy]

This just gets better and better. Maybe we should do like I used to do my kids when they got like this - put boxing gloves on them and put them in the back yard until they can behave.

[phroso]

As always, all Obama can do is copy Hillary. What would he do without her, read cereal boxes out loud?

[nycslacker]

i'm getting so tired of all that crap -- this campaign going on for too long, becoming ridiculous now; there must a better way to choose the best candidate? I demand Hillary & Obama be allowed only one more speech this Tuesday (and yeah, let it be the toughest speech of Hillary's life -- the concession speech).

[TargetPraticing]

lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWJuzkHeo4

[AWest]

The man has class, there's no two ways about it.

Imagine having a president with class?

[Fasteddie1515]

If Senator Hillary Huckabee Clinton does not win Texas and Ohio by a large margin (15%), they need to shut it down for the good of the party. If they feel they are more important than the party then......­....hey doesn't the Senator have a trial comming up soon?

[icemama]

To all Texas Democrats:

Remember, on March 4, all Hillary or Obama supporters, please return to your voting precinct before the polls close, at 6:30, sign in for the Precinct Convention, and cast your vote for the candidate of your choice. This insures proper distribution of delegates. You owe this to your candidate.

P.S. Hillary's or Obama's campaign headquarters in your town are having meetings this afternoon to inform the public on the caucus process. Call your local candidate's office for more information.

[LAanna]

How many times can he flaunt the single-mom-rearing card? If Hillary were to constantly rely on the same two lines, she would be completely lambasted. Come on, Obama, you're no saint.

People, wake up and read something that most of the media doesn't want you to:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304

[TargetPraticing]

bill seems to think hope is the best thing. check ut his endorsement!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWJuzkHeo4