Obama Praises McCain, Clinton Responds

Barack Obama gave rare praise to the idea of a John McCain president during a town hall event in Pennsylvania Sunday:

"You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain. And all three of us would be better than George Bush," Obama said.

"But what you have to ask yourself is, who has the chance to actually, really change things in a fundamental way?" Obama asked as he wrapped up a town-hall style event at Reading High School in central Pennsylvania.

Sen. Hillary Clinton fired back at her opponent over the comment, while tying it in to her general critique that Obama cannot fight hard enough to win the election. Ben Smith reports:

"We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain, and I will be that nominee," she said.

Of course, Clinton had a similar moment of praise for John McCain's experience earlier this campaign season:

"I have a lifetime of experience I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain [the presumptive Republican nominee] has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002."

Comments

[MadJeffersonian]

So this is from the same Clintons that praised McCain a few weeks back right?

Just checking..­.

Are the Clintons bi-polar? Or do they have multiple personalities?

[epsiloneon]

Obama can’t win in November even if he is more then just a giant talking head with an impressive speech writer, he can’t get the votes. News flash for the Obama supporters they don’t do caucuses in the general elections.­, and red states are labeled red for a reason!

[epsiloneon]

Obama supporters are not seeing the big picture. The bloggers are so intent on bashing Hillary about her looks and her clothes or insulting other democratic supporters that support Hillary they have forgotten the real race starts in November. Obama has only won in states that are red or that have caucus rather then ballot voting. The problems that Obama will face in November will be the fact all the voters will be heard from, not just a handful of voters that had time to attend a caucus.

[butterworth]

This is illustrative of one of the major problems in HRC's campaign. All the contradict­ory/bizarr­e/easily disproved statements are making Hillary and Bill seem as though they have gone nuts.

Hillary Rodham Clinton should submit to a psychiatric evaluation if she wants to continue this farce of a primary.

[bobdob]

"We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain, and I will be that nominee," she said."

What DRUG is she on? This is just insanity. The Senator will say ANYTHING. Wow...

[scorpioleidy]

This hypocrisy of this woman just boggles the mind!!!!! It's really true that Hillary Huckabee will do and say anything to try and win. How sad ... how desperate!
OBAMA '08

[personalpolitical]

And here was Bill commenting on McCain and Hillary:

"She and John McCain are very close," Clinton said. "They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they're afraid they'd put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other."

Read more:

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/04/another-heavy-dose-of-hillpocrisy-as.

[DoTheMath]

I'm glad to see that Clinton thinks we need a candidate who will take on John McCain instead of cheering him on. I expect retractions of her previous statements to follow. She can start with that "Commander in Chief test" comment.

[austinobserver]

I guess according to Hillary that McCain is not any better than Bush but McCain is better than Obama. So that means she thinks Bush is better than Obama. Now why again is she in the Democratic Party?

[BinAgain]

The in your face hypocrisy of this woman is astounding.

[jteschke]

There's a difference between impliedly endorsing McCain as opposed to Obama as Hillary has done and saying that McCain would not be quite as bad as Bush, as Obama said. The Billary campaign's earlier implied endorsement of McCain makes her latest critique the most cynical sort of hypocrisy. I hope that it's transparent enough for people who have not followed the mudslinging to notice the contradiction.

[MaracaKabob]

This is what "Throwing the china" looks like. It's best to just go to your room, lock the door and turn up the headphones.
Bill and Hillary are going to throw the everything in pantry against the kitchen wall and then set it on fire.

"If you can't stand the heat, the flying china, the smoke, the ballistic can of split pea soup that cost $3.95, then get out of the kitchen. No really, get out of the kitchen, the fire and police departments are on their way over right now."

[REZBOO]

All sane --and former Clinton lovers/ admirers have reached the only rational conclusion: HIL AND BILL ARE NUTS....! NUTS....! NUTS......­..........­..........­..........­.......!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!

I'm just glad his mom didn't have to live to see this mess. She'd no doubt be back on the sauce.

[sfsj]

Has she gone completely lost it? As her husband said in referencing her Bosnia gaffe -- "she's 60" and that basically she just forgets. SHE SURE DOES!

1) She repeated the following line over several days starting the day before Texas -- "I'm qualified, John McCain is qualified, and Barack Obama has ONE speech!". This was frankly when I cried and felt she went to a place I could never support. It was the main example of her willing to throw the Democratic Party and American people under the bus in order to push forward her agenda of winning at all costs.

2) She also forgets about her whining ("I always get asked the first question") and Bill's whining ("they're gangin' up on the girl") and Bill & James Carville's MAJOR cry-baby remarks ("Richardson is a Judas" and "he owed something to the Clintons"). If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen!

She really has lost it and is forgetting more than just whether or not she was under gunfire (I'm sure we all forget those if we were ever under gunfire, right? -- but of course, MSM would never call it lying).

[Podewumun]

There are two things I don't like about Hillary.

Her face.

[Jamchinadian]

Brevity is the soul of wit - Brilliant! !!!