Audacity In Action

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Clinton Says McCain No Better Than Bush

By Anne E. Kornblut
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- Keeping up her end of their long-distance dialogue, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday for praising Sen. John McCain on the campaign trail.

"Senator Obama said today that John McCain would be better for the country than George Bush," Clinton said. "We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain."

The Clinton-Obama-McCain triangle has been a source of intrigue throughout the three senators' run for the presidency, with Clinton and McCain once enjoying a friendship and McCain at times seeming to root for Clinton to get the nomination. Clinton has been careful to praise McCain as an "American patriot," but she and Obama began to take him on once he emerged as the Republican nominee.

Clinton was referring in Johnstown to a speech Obama gave in Reading, Pa. The Associated Press reported that he said, "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."

Clinton said that McCain would be no better than President Bush. "Senator McCain would follow the same failed policies that have been so wrong for our country the last seven years," she said.

The Democratic National Committee is airing an ad against McCain entitled "Better Off?", questioning a claim the Arizona senator made that people are generally better off now than they were at the start of the Bush administration.

Clinton Chides Obama for Going 'So Negative'


By Anne E. Kornblut BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton hit Sen. Barack Obama for being "so negative" on the campaign trail on Sunday -- and accused him of acting like a Republican in his criticism of her universal health care proposal.

"He has set out mailers, he has run ads, misrepresenting what I have proposed," Clinton said. "I really regret that, because the last thing we need is to have somebody spending as much money as he has downgrading universal health care. We need to achieve universal health care -- not create political opposition to universal health care. That's what the Republicans do, not what the Democrats do."

Clinton is criticizing Obama's ad strategy in the closing days of the Pennsylvania race, saying the Illinois senator has turned negative to compensate for his debate performance last week. After stopping by a diner in Abington outside Philadelphia, Clinton drew thousands to a school gymnasium here, then was headed to stops in Johnstown and State College.

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[Glocksman]

I don't know whether to laugh or be pissed, given her comments earlier this year about McCain being ready to lead while Obama is not.

Then again this is Hillary 'Kitchen Sink' Clinton we're talking about here.

[Darth Onasi]

She's either nuts, stupid, likes revelling in hypocrisy or doesn't have a clue who writes her speeches/press releases and doesn't ever proof read them.

.. or all of the above.

[Vohu Manah]

If her goal at this stage was to demonstrate her complete and utter irrelevance at this stage of the race I think she's achieved that. I wonder if Obama will officially respond to this or if he'll decide not to bother?

[Anguirus]

Clinton comes off less like Obama's competitor than as his stalker, just following him and waiting for him to say something she can pounce on. Her only consistent position is "lol, what he just said is stupid."