Obama vies to push back, stay positive

Boston Globe 21 months ago

Obama vies to push back, stay positive

As the Democratic primary race enters a new, critical phase, Senator Barack Obama's campaign is wrestling with how to respond forcefully to Hillary Clinton's recent attacks on his record without violating the positive, uplifting spirit at the core of... Full Article at Boston Globe

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The truth is, more than a year into this campaign, some very simple vetting of Hillary Clinton has yet to start
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He has rolled out this very powerful theme of change. He has the opportunity here now to be more meaty with respect to the issues and to juxtapose his approach to hers.
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I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator, or member of Congress ... How can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not the quality, that's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa.
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These are important questions. The people deserve to know. And we deserve, as Democrats, to know before a nominee is selected, because we don't want things to explode in a general election against John McCain.
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There's a difference between drawing a contrast between Senator Obama and Senator Clinton and going negative ... There are questions that need to be asked of Senator Clinton and her campaign - about her tax returns, about her foreign policy experience - and we are more than ready to do that.
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Going after her about tax returns and stuff like that, you know, that's OK, except that's not where the election is
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Are there favors attached to $500,000 or $1 million contributions? And what do I mean by favors? I mean, pardons that are granted, investigations that are squelched, contracts that are awarded, regulations that are delayed.
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do things that I'm not comfortable with. Just remember ... What we've been doing has worked.
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Apparently, the Obama campaign's idea of new politics is to recycle the same old Republican attacks on Senator Clinton that have failed for years. Imitating [former independent prosecutor] Ken Starr is not the way to win the Democratic nomination.
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