ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER SET OF ATTACKS FROM HILLARY CLINTON
Clinton Release: "Sen. Obama Rewrites History, Claims He Hasn't Been Planning White House Run...Senator Obama's comment today is fundamentally at odds with what his teachers, family, classmates and staff have said about his plans to run for President," Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer said. 'Senator Obama's campaign rhetoric is getting in the way of his reality.'" [Clinton Press Release, 12/2/07]
Washington Post: "Losing Ground In Iowa, Clinton Assails Obama." "With a new poll showing her losing ground in the Iowa caucus race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) mounted a new, more aggressive attack against Sen. Barack Obama." [Washington Post, 12/3/07]
Des Moines Register: "Clinton Begins To Swing Harder At Rival Obama." "Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton ramped up her criticism of rival Barack Obama." [Des Moines Register, 12/3/07]
New York Daily News: "Hillary Clinton Attack On Barack Obama Comes After She Loses Iowa Lead." "Hours after a new poll showed her falling behind for the first time in Iowa, Hillary Clinton launched a blistering personal broadside on rival Barack Obama." [New York Daily News, 12/3/07]
Chicago Tribune: "This Clinton Attack On Obama Could Boomerang." "The Clinton people are citing a kindergarten essay by Obama as evidence against him in a presidential campaign. Good thing he was born before widespread pre-natal ultrasounds. Who knows how they might've used that against him? Clinton's people have thrown similar jabs before at Obama but it hasn't fazed him. So their seems to be a little more fury behind the punches as now that Obama's may have taken the lead in Iowa according to the Des Moines Register's most recent poll." [Chicago Tribune, The Swamp, 12/3/07]
New York Times: "An Attack, From the Candidate's Mouth" [New York Times, 12/2/07]
New York Times: "Battered by Poll, Clinton Hits Back" [New York Times, 12/2/07]
...INCLUDING OBAMA'S KINDERGARTEN ESSAYS
Clinton Release: "In kindergarten, Senator Obama wrote an essay titled 'I Want to Become President. 'Iis Darmawan, 63, Senator Obama's kindergarten teacher, remembers him as an exceptionally tall and curly haired child who quickly picked up the local language and had sharp math skills. He wrote an essay titled, 'I Want To Become President,' the teacher said." [AP, 1/25/07]...JUST WEEKS AFTER PROMISING NOT TO ATTACK DEMOCRATS
Clinton Said "I'm Not Interested In Attacking My Opponents, I'm Interested In Attacking The Problems Of America." "I'm not interested in attacking my opponents, I'm interested in attacking the problems of America. And I believe we should be turning up the heat on the Republicans -- they deserve all the heat we can give them." [Clinton Jefferson Jackson speech]
Clinton Campaign Chair Said "We're Going To Stay Positive....We're Not Going To Attack Our Fellow Democrats." "Terry McAuliffe, Clinton's fundraiser and adviser, provided more evidence of that general-election strategy and warned other candidates that going negative could hurt them in Iowa. 'We're running our campaign for president,' McAuliffe said. 'We're going to stay positive and get our message out. I'm not worried about what the other candidates are going to do. I think if other candidates want to go negative, they do that. I think you do that at their peril here in Iowa. People don't like that. But we're not worried about anyone else. We're running our campaign. Tonight, she's saying she wants to talk about taking the heat to the Republicans. We're going to focus on the Republicans. We're going to focus on winning the White House. We're not going to attack our fellow Democrats. That's not what we want to do." [MSNBC, 11/11/07]
Days that Senator Clinton has spent attacking Democrats since making that promise:179
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What Iowans Think
Which Candidate is the most negative? |
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| Hillary Clinton | 21% |
| John Edwards | 9% |
| Dennis Kucinich | 9% |
| Barack Obama | 8% |
| Joe Biden | 3% |
| Mike Gravel | 3% |
| Christopher Dodd | 3% |
| Bill Richardson | 3% |
| None/Not sure | 43% |
| Source: The Iowa Poll [Des Moines Register, 12/2/07] |
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