Obama: Hillary, McCain Using "Very Same Words" Against Me

Barack Obama said yesterday that Hillary Clinton is using attacks from the GOP playbook. Today his campaign circulated a fundraising letter, charging that Hillary Clinton and John McCain are using the "the very same words" to attack him. Obama isn't the only one who says it's two against one. The Washington Post points out that Hillary and John McCain are sounding like they are in an echo chamber when it comes to attacking Obama these days.

Sen. John McCain joined in the criticism of Sen. Barack Obama yesterday for Obama's comments about "bitter" victims of small-town economic distress, while Obama's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination weighed in with a tough new ad on the controversy.

Speaking at a gathering of newspaper editors and executives in Washington, McCain echoed the rebuke voiced repeatedly by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, calling Obama's characterization "a contradiction from what I believe America is all about."

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[HumeSkeptic]

MORE BAD NEWS ABOUT OBAMA

(This should end hi sbid by late this week, DEFINITELY)

"Beyond his appearance, what set him apart was his approach to argument, the lifeblood of the law school and the constant occupation of the young lawyers-in-training. While other students were determined to prove the merits of their beliefs through logic and determination, Obama preferred to listen, seek others' views, and find a middle way.

"A lot of people at the time were just talking past each other, very committed to their opinions, their point of view, and not particularly interested in what other people had to say," said Crystal Nix Hines, a classmate who is now a television writer. "Barack transcended that".

He confronted his most charged debates as president of the Harvard Law Review, the exclusive club of 80 student editors and future Supreme Court justices who publish a regular journal of legal writings. Classmates recall an especially emotional debate in the spring of 1990 over affirmative action, which conservative students wanted to abolish.

Presiding over an assembly of 60 mostly white editors in a law school classroom, Obama listened to impassioned pleas and pressed conservatives to explain their reasoning and liberals to sharpen their thinking. But he never spoke about his own point of view or mentioned that he believed he had benefited from affirmative action

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/01/28/at_harvard_law_a_unifying_voice/

[kevenseven]

Oh, this is definitely the last straw. Clinton locks the nomination!

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

You should read what they say about him at Colombia, where he earned a degree in Political Science, specializing in International Relations:

http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan05/cover.php

“He’s a rare package of brains, values and personality,” says John Bouman, an advocate who has worked with Obama on policy issues. “What you see is the real deal. It’s a good break for all of us that he chose politics.”

[HumeSkeptic]

Oh! He's toast. A Communist for sure. Hope Hannity doesn't find out about this connection.

[SpookyTooth]

two people i don't trust as president or with a gun in their hand.

[PardonMyFrenchFries]

Is the Huffpost hiring moderators? Make sure you do a background search before employing them.

[HumeSkeptic]

BREAKING NEWS

Obama reads books.

[JuneCleaversBeaver]

WITHOUT moving his lips.

[ThunderclapNewman]

WQEll, that settles it. He's over-qualified.

[GrouchoMarxist]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that they're slightly more sophisticated than "My Pet Goat"

[HumeSkeptic]

More Bad News: He has a sense of humor:


CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 23 — The peers who elected Barack Obama as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review say he was a natural leader, an impressive student, a nice guy. But in the 1990 Revue — the graduating editors’ gleeful parody of their elite publication — they said quite a bit more.

Barack Obama at his fellow student Bradford Berenson’s apartment, where he watched the 1990 election returns.
“I was born in Oslo, Norway, the son of a Volvo factory worker and part-time ice fisherman,” a mock self-tribute begins. “My mother was a backup singer for Abba. They were good folks.” In Chicago, “I discovered I was black, and I have remained so ever since.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?ex=1327640400&en=bed3e016d07394c2&ei=5088

[kevenseven]

Books without pictures?

Gotta be a terrist!

[HumeSkeptic]

No. An elitist.

[Brutus1]

What's a terrist?

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Well it seems Bill is helping Hillary again.

New main thread:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/15/bill-clinton-suggests-you_n_96889.html

[marc1antony]

this picture will come in handy when she is his VP

[AdLib]

Whoops...I think I broke HuffPo!

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

LOL

[kevenseven]

I've split this Cabin Boy. Bring me another.

[Nochnoi]

Again... damn you!!!

[Brutus1]

No, you forgot the speil of Obama supporters: " GOD DAMN AMERICA".

[kevenseven]

Do you know what I find really disgusting? That a politician would manipulate people in order to get them to like and admire him. What is this world coming to when a man like Obama can fool 20,000 people to show up to a venue and listen to him give a canned speech and cheer and cheer and be all excited and enthusiastic and get the stupid idea in their heads that they can make any difference and should have hope that tomorrow could be better?

What is happening when people make an emotional bond to a mere politician? Do these people not have brains in their heads? Are they on drugs?

You would think it was 1992 and Bill Clinton was running for president.

[SaskiaStars]

You sound positively elitist. What do you have against HOPE anyway??

Obama 08

[kevenseven]

I'm hoping you regain a sense of humor after my man Obama gets the nomination.

Me, I'm just hoping to keep it together until the balloon drop.

[GrouchoMarxist]

Go figure.

[kevenseven]

Heh.

[marc1antony]

amazing isn't it - and yet only 19 out of 100 showed up for Hillary and she's the frontrunner in PA. lol

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

They'd rather chat amongst themselves:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/15/clinton-forced-to-cut-spe_n_96774.html

[JiminNC]

Funny - all these millions and millions of stupid people supporting Obama and there's only you and a few old-world democrat sycophants that really know the truth.

[SCG]

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070917_giving_and_taking

[kevenseven]

Some of the Obama supporters know satire when they see it.

Many of them. Obama supporters tend to be better educated than the electorate as a whole.

[IndependentPAVoter]

Dont have hope things can change just slave your life away making the upper calss rich working toward a retirement and a social security check that ypu wnt get because the government will owe that money to China.

[kevenseven]

Hi. That was satire. I can't help myself. I've been posting that for ten weeks.

I just get a kick out of stirring my fellow Obamans on occasion.

But the best part is catching a Clintonista in the mix....

I'm a bad man.

[Jtt]

Scrub, Scrub, Scrub, patapsco99 posts gently till there clean......

[JuneCleaversBeaver]

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Trolls are such a scream

[Jtt]

The War EXPERT :

to next target Iraq since the Taliban regime had collapsed in Afghanistan. It is "imperative that we plan to eliminate the threat from Iraq," the lawmakers wrote.... .... Asked if it wouldn't require 100,000 American soldiers as occupation troops, Mr. McCain demurred. "Oh no," he said, "I don't think so at all." ( http://www2.nysun.com/article/73498 )

"I believe that success will be fairly easy."
-- John McCain (9/24/02, CNN)

"I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time."
-- John McCain (9/29/02, CNN)

"The American people ... were led to believe that this would be some kind of a day at the beach which many of us, uh, fully understood from the very beginning would be a very, very difficult undertaking."
-- John McCain

"I knew it was probably going to be long and hard and tough. And those that voted for it and thought that somehow it was going to be some kind of an easy task, then I'm sorry they were mistaken. Maybe they didn't know what they were voting for."
-- John McCain (1/4/07, MSNBC)
( http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1674 )

McCain: 'The war will be over soon'/McCain told a questioner that the United States could have forces in Iraq for "maybe 100" years. ( http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/25/iraq.mccain/index.html )

[IslandGyal]

Row v Wade

[GrouchoMarxist]

Row, row, row your boat...

[JuneCleaversBeaver]

...Wade onto the shore...

[CarlsV]

gently down your spleen ...

merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily

ya blow your new blue jeans

[kevenseven]

Did you say you had a JohnCT sighting?

[kevenseven]

That is Roe.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

salmon or sturgeon?

[HereticalPolemicisit]

Edward R. Murrow's ghost must want to rise up as a "knight of the living dead" to bedevil these American descendents of Josef Goebbels.

[AdLib]

Mixing alcohol with your metaphors?

[MichiganJFrog]

And some Slim Whitman in the background...

[CarlsV]

Is that allowed?

[rosal]

Actually, the visit that never leaves, looks better in the picture than in real life. The stress is taking its toll on Hell-ary. Time to go on a loooooooong vacation.

[NuttyProf]

you people do realize that all it takes one act of provocation from Iran and McCain wins.

People will be running back to war all over again.

I wish the democrats would take a stronger anti war position instead of having this bite them in the a$$

[GrouchoMarxist]

Good thing the Iranians ain't that stupid, isn't it?

Hell, all it would take is one act of provocation by the Martians, and Jack Nicholson could be president.

It's fun to have a fantasy life, isn't it?

[SCG]

The Italians aren't stupid, and don't forget it.

[Nochnoi]

Whatever you do..... don't release a Dove!!!!

Although what the Martians did to Congress.... well... I would laugh too!

[emmav70]

Do you mean act of provocation from the BUSHES to provoke Iran to provoke us?

We're way ahead of you !

Not this time !!!

[CarlsV]

"you people do realize that all it takes one act of provocation from Iran and McCain wins."

Only in the minds of the less challenged sparky ....

[Nochnoi]

Iran isn't going to do anything to us.... although that does not mean that the Bushies will make something up, like they did to illegally invade Iraq....

But.... attacking Iran is would be incredibly stupid.... they are way beyond the countries that the United States is used to bullying........ they will kick our collective butts......... into oblivion....

[MichiganJFrog]

Not sure about that, but they will fight like we haven't seen since Korea.

[AdLib]

Yeah, they may provoke us as Iraq did, by insisting they don't have WMDs just to trick us into assuming that they do and forcing us to start a war! Sneaky SOBs! We should bomb 'em just for thinking they can trick us into starting another war!

[AnnnCA]

One last thing to complete the horrific picture at the top: Cindy McCain's eyes!

A truly stomach-churning image;) *upchucking*

[SCG]

Perhaps they could include a Cindy McCain home recipe along with it? She's quite a cook I hear.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

When she borrows Rachel Ray's recipes.

[kevenseven]

One thing I will always be grateful to Hillary for:

Peace in Northern Ireland.

I think we need another president who can just make s**t up and have everybody believe it. That is what America needs.

Hillary '08!

[ThunderclapNewman]

A president who just makes sh*t up?

We already have one, and we'd like to send him back.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Don't forget SCHIP.

[SCG]

AnnnCA , I'm looking forward to the day when you reconsider your blind support of Hillary. With time you'll see she just wears on you. Better our loss and Colombia's gain. ; )

[AdLib]

Psst...read the name closely, it's not AnnInCa...

[SaviourMachine]

psst,that's AnnnCA the good "twin" of AnninCA.

AnnnCA is following the laws of nature and balancing things out.

[samson24]

How scared and pathetic you are to try to pretend you are AnninCa. Her knowledge of facts is obviously very scary. How sa