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."

Comments

[CindyKay]

Excellent Photo , now add a little Bush & You 've Got Her Pegged.

[highlyamused]

I agree! Not enough people aren't making the "hillbush' connection.

[jsinclair]

Charlie Black. Mark Penn. Both head the same lobbying company. Friends. Top advisors for Clinton and McCain. Both making MILLIONS from ... the campaigns of Clinton and McCain.


Coincidence? Why won't someone find out?


Is Hillary just a Republican at heart? Or is her campaign actually COORDINATING strategy with McCains?

[hbw3]

Now plaigarism from McCain? Are Garin, the still-employeed Mark Penn and the rest of the HRC hacks so lazy they can't cut, paste and then, God forbid, edit a little. "Markie, you're doin' a hell of a job..."

[radionewsboy]

HAHA NICE TRY.....

Read the Obama memo: ...Hillary "didn't just echo the Republican candidate's talking points: she actually used the very same words to pile on with more attacks."

THEN, read the Washington Post article. McCain echoed Hillary's comments, not the other way around. Hillary said them FIRST. She wasn't echoing anyone.

This is typical Obama trash politics.

[umbrella4sunshine]

What is the meaning of "is" ? What difference does it make who said that first?

The point is that the so-called democrat i.e. Hillary Clinton and the presumptive GOP nominee are using the same Karl Rovian tactics to attack a democrat!! Get it?

[radionewsboy]

How in holy god's name are these Rovian tactics? Obama said poor people are bitter and instead of dealing with it, they play with guns and become religious - c'mon that's what he said.

It's TOTALLY fair game for Hillary to bash Obama for this comment. Just as Obama is bashing Hillary and calling her a liar and faux-Annie Oakley is fair game.

Stop drinkin' the Obama Koolaid!

[AdLib]

And Obama looks so bad because the words from Hillary's mouth fit perfectly into McCain's?

You kinda made the perfect argument condemning yourself and Hillary.

[radionewsboy]

No, he looks bad because he twisted the truth to fit his agenda...he's trying to portray Hillary as a Republican and as a desperate, party-destroying monster.

That's why he said Hillary echoed McCain...that makes his agenda true. However, when the truth is McCain echoed Hillary....it doesn't really fit with his message.

[tbrnotb]

HAHA NICER TRY....
Bill and Hill sit on the sidelines FOR SEVEN FREAKIN" years and then come out as Republicans?
And you're going to knock Obama?

That's right you Clinton koo-aid drinkers...it ain't the90's anymore. They're in bed with the Bushies!

[zendem1]

Ok, that picture is creepy on several levels. Of course, so are McCain and Hillary.

[HelpMeJebus]

It is so sad that she is using these kinds of tactics. I have lost all respect the Clintons from all the crap thy have done.

[presto]

Why is it that when Obama makes a mistake, you guys think Hillary has to drop out? Bizarro world.

[misterbone]

Hillary should never drop out. She needs to suffer the humiliation of being rejected by her party on the convention floor, before the whole world.

[Average]

That would be because BOTH Hillary & McCain are telling the TRUTH about him!

[tbrnotb]

And you ACTUALLY believe them?

Pssst. Hey buddy, we got a country we want to invade........

[Ashall]

Apparently there are no differences between Hillary's democratic party and McCain's republican party, otherwise they would have different takes and different words on the subject. McCain didn't have any reason to jump into the fray, but he's such a feeble old man he can't remember that this isn't the general election yet. He doesn't do so well without his buddy Lieberman whispering sweet reminders in his ear.

[Tejano1]

average? i'd say way below average, at least intelligence-wise.

[TheNewHampshireLiberal]

Obama is telling the country the truth and that frightens the hell out of both status-quo candidates.

[cheersdk]

GUNS, GOD, and GRITS!

OBAMA: I am "BITTER" they used MARGARINE instead of BUTTER on MY GRITS!

Can't they afford real butter? How long have they been using margarine? 25 years?

Don't they know that Margarine is basically "BITTER" butter?

I know that Pennsylvanians and Americans are P.R.O. Hillary, that is POSITITVE, RESILIENT, and OPTIMISTIC about a woman that will work hard for them and stand by them.

So, I want to say to small town America: KISS MY GRITS!...I think the folks in San Francisco will like that, not grits, but the "SENTIMENT"!

Apparently GRITS are not served in small town Pennsylvania, as it is a southern favorite, I suppose this is another reason for Obama to be "BITTER", about his "SENTIMENT" that Pennsylvanians "CLING" to Grits!

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HILLARY, I find it hot when you act like Annie Oakley...will you be my BAMBINA?

[4wehttam]

I keep saying HELLary is McWar's running mate. Do you guys believe me know.......??? hehehe!!

[MikeDu]

I was on the fence about the race for a long time. But Senator Clinton seems to be 'pulling a Leiberman' on the Democratic party. If she can't win the nomination she's going to make damned sure her opponent is crippled for the general election. Sure, Clinton may possibly have made the superior "CEO" president but when under pressure she apparently leans towards her worst possible instincts. She did it when she voted for the Iraq war (gotta cover my ass for future campaigns) and she's doing it again with her desperate RNC-style faux outrage over Obama's observations.

[JRandomPoster]

Have to agree. More and more, it is seeming like Hillary and McCain are part of the Business as Usual Machine, and will collectively do and say anything to maintain the status quo.

[indie17]

They're so, "Yesterday, life was such an easy game to play..."

[Countess]

Mccain is salivating at the thought of having Hillary Clinton as the democratic candidate. By the time she is finished her pandering primary he will appear much more liberal than her and in fact he probably is.

[movealongtrain]

The morphed photo of McHillary is going to give me nightmares.

[faroutgone]

seriously.

[Tejano1]

i didn't need that jacked up photo to give my nightmares that feature hellary mcclinton. she's a featured nightly horror.

[soybomb]

Oh poor baby.

If he can't take the heat. Tell him to go back to cleaning the kitchen.


SoyBomb

[GQB]

man... it doesn't take much for the racism to come out of the Billary crowd, does it?

[TOBEFAIR]

GQB, after watching Obama play the race card, maybe they just thought they would join in the fun. Got a problem with that? Two can play the game doncha think?

[PackyJ]

You sound bitter, not to mention elitist.

[soybomb]

Im a fleabit peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies
Thats not really true

Im a cold italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeezer
What you do?

But Ive been bit and Ive been tossed around
By every she-rat in this town
Have you, babe?

Well, I am just a monkey man
Im glad you are a monkey woman too

I was bitten by a boar
I was gouged and I was gored
But I pulled on through

Yes, Im a sack of broken eggs
I always have an unmade bed
Dont you?

Well, I hope were not too messianic
Or a trifle too satanic
We love to play the blues

Well I am just a monkey man
Im glad you are a monkey, monkey woman too, babe

Im a monkey
Im a monkey

[bennofs]

If you mean, Obama, then your turn of this phrase sounds ever so much very demeaning to one particular group of people. And if I think of all of those good people you mention who do clean kitchens. Well, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Explain please.

[neenj]

May I suggest you take your comments over to ABC news or Fox since there is quite a number of Obama haters over there!!! Trust me, you will feel right at home over there.