Posted on 02/11/2008 6:38:20 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Clinton Accuses Obama of Cutting Deals Behind Closed Doors Dem Rivals Throw Elbows in Separate Local TV Interviews By ELOISE HARPER AND TAHMAN BRADLEY
Feb. 11, 2008 —
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in an interview Monday with ABC's Washington, DC affiliate WJLA, accused Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama of suspicious activity after being asked why she hasn't disclosed her income tax returns.
"Senator Obama has some questions to answer about his dealings with one of his largest contributors Exelon, a big nuclear power company; apparently he cut some deals behind closed doors to protect them from full disclosure of the nuclear industry," she said.
Senator Clinton defended her position not to disclose her income tax returns. "I have said that I will release my tax returns when I am the nominee. My entire ethics statement is on record at the senate I have liquidated all my holdings, I'm holding everything in cash so there's not even a question of conflict."
Obama was not immediately able to respond to the accusation because his interview with the same station, which aired Monday night, was taped.
The Illinois Democratic, however, took a swipe a Sen. Clinton's campaign operation, which has suffered bad news of late with campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle stepping aside on Sunday and word that Sen. Clinton had injected $5 million of her own money into the campaign.
"I started from scratch and was up against a operation that had been built over the course of 20 years by a former president with the bulk of the Democratic establishment on their side and after setting up a hundred million plus operation with hundreds of employees around the country, it looks like we've played them to a draw so far," he said.
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Right! That's purely her domain, not his.
Doubt Obama is doing anything like-— planning to take hostage in secret 1/7th of the nation’s economy while using taxpayer-funded personnel and funds to do so.
That's the one percent that's above the table, I presume, and not held in foreign accounts.
Paging doug from Upland... Pick up the white courtesy phone
And this is just the beginning .. wait until the nasty jabs and tears start stacking up one on top of the other with Hill, it'll become a 3 ring circus.
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Got that right :)
I have been waiting for Saint Obama to be confronted with the deals with Exelon, ConEd, the coal producers and then there are the lobbyists. I guess it took Maggie Williams to go for blood, because Hillary finally said something today. Apparently, the Boston Globe will be running a story about Obama refusing to take money from lobbyists, but contacting the lobbyist network to get their lists of contacts.
That wacky Hillary. What a sense of humor! She’s the Queen of Behind Closed Doors deals.
More attacks are anticipated. The slime sucking pig will not go away without a trench war battle.
I'm waiting for her to slip and call him "that uppity n----r" in public.
“I have said that I will release my tax returns when I am the nominee.”
How the he// does she get away with that stuff. A candidate who wasn’t the spawn of Satan would get crucified for this.
Right - the pot calling the kettle black (pun sort of intended) indeed.
That's her testosterone.
I thought that cutting deals was EXACTLY what politics is about?
Ummmm, popcorn time. Yum.
Hmmm, cutting deals. Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, that was a Bill thing.
But don't count her out yet. It's also the most dangerous.
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