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    Obama's aides say they will actively draw new distinctions in the weeks ahead, including on foreign policy experience, which they say Clinton has cited as a major asset of hers without offering any evidence. "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." The situation is somewhat analogous to last year's Massachusetts gubernatorial race, in which Governor Deval Patrick, a friend and political kindred spirit to Obama, resisted pleas from Democratic leaders to attack after his Republican opponent, Kerry Healey, ran hard-hitting negative ads against him. Full Article at Boston Globe
    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.
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
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Obama vies to push back, stay positive
  1. The truth is, more than a year into this campaign, some very simple vetting of Hillary Clinton has yet to start
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  2. 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.
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  3. 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.
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  4. TAX RETURNS: What does Clinton have to hide?
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  5. 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.
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  6. Going after her about tax returns and stuff like that, you know, that's OK, except that's not where the election is
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  7. 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.
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  8. do things that I'm not comfortable with. Just remember ... What we've been doing has worked.
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago
  9. 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.
    SOURCE: Boston Globe 21 months ago

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