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Clinton, Obama Complain About Complaining
Associated Press via Comcast ^ | April 19, 2008 | Nedra Pickler, AP

Posted on 04/19/2008 8:18:06 AM PDT by Lancey Howard

Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are complaining about which candidate is the biggest complainer.

The issue is their treatment in debates. Obama is objecting to the questions posed this week in one moderated by ABC News. Many of the toughest questions were targeted at Obama, the front-runner for the nomination, and he's said too much time was spent on political divisions instead of issues that matter to Americans.

Clinton said Friday that if Obama thinks the debate was tough, it pales in comparison to the pressures a president faces.

"I'm with Harry Truman on this — if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen," she told voters while campaigning in Pennsylvania. "Just speaking for myself, I am very comfortable in the kitchen."

But it wasn't so long ago that Clinton was the front-runner and complaining about her treatment in debates. After a debate last fall, her campaign compiled clips of her being targeted, and called it the "Politics of Pile On." In late February, Clinton complained that she always got asked the first question.

"Her blatant hypocrisy here is stunning," responded Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

The most recent debate Wednesday night was the most watched of this election cycle and has generated some negative reviews for ABC. Obama supporters have made some of the loudest objections, and the Obama campaign sent out a fundraising appeal off the debate titled "Gotcha."

Obama said Thursday that the moderators "like stirring up controversy and they like playing gotcha games, getting us to attack each other."

Clinton said Friday that getting tough questions is part of what happens in a debate and campaign.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abcnews; hillary; obama; pa2008
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Posted mainly for the ACTUAL title.
1 posted on 04/19/2008 8:18:07 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - OBAMA'S CIRCLE OF FRIENDS

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH - BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY AND OBAMA'S CHURCH

2 posted on 04/19/2008 8:19:08 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Lancey Howard

I wonder if they would like some cheese with their whining


3 posted on 04/19/2008 8:19:20 AM PDT by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our vets! (RIP Sgt Matthew Maupin))
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To: Lancey Howard

This is not the kind of headline you see very often in the “mainstream” Democrat press.


4 posted on 04/19/2008 8:19:50 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Eye-poking, hair pulling, bed-wetting, shivering marxist Chihuahua’s.


5 posted on 04/19/2008 8:26:07 AM PDT by Eurale
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To: Lancey Howard

6 posted on 04/19/2008 8:28:26 AM PDT by Spunky (You are free to make choices, but not free from the consequences)
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To: Eurale

The scumbags are so used to a fawning pack of Democrat “reporters” throwing them softballs, they just don’t know what to do.


7 posted on 04/19/2008 8:29:37 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Poetgal26

8 posted on 04/19/2008 8:30:55 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

A good photo-shopper could easily turn Urkel into Obama...


9 posted on 04/19/2008 8:31:44 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Exactly, lol


10 posted on 04/19/2008 8:33:06 AM PDT by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our vets! (RIP Sgt Matthew Maupin))
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To: Lancey Howard; Jeff Head; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP

It's Unfair to Twelfth Imam from Chicago, Frau Mao

11 posted on 04/19/2008 8:34:40 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Lancey Howard

"The complaint department is one floor up"

12 posted on 04/19/2008 8:43:21 AM PDT by Ken H
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To: PhilDragoo

Two real pieces of work I’ll tell you. it’s like a sick rendition of the Twilight Zone that we are even in this situation. But here we are.


13 posted on 04/19/2008 8:43:49 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: Poetgal26
ObamaMouse being asked the hard questions..



14 posted on 04/19/2008 8:44:33 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Ken H

15 posted on 04/19/2008 8:46:37 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: vietvet67

Love the lil mouse freaking out and then running, it is so like Obama!


16 posted on 04/19/2008 8:46:56 AM PDT by Poetgal26 (God bless the US Military and our vets! (RIP Sgt Matthew Maupin))
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To: Ken H


17 posted on 04/19/2008 8:47:35 AM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Lancey Howard

hillleree was the one that began in the attack mode from the very beginning. Hateful, nasty, critical, low down, mean attacks. That’s WHO she is.

Obama simply RESPONDED.

Besides...who was the one sitting at the diner that CRIED. Wasn’t Obama I can tell you that. Was ole hilllreeee playing the gender card. What a dufus she is.


18 posted on 04/19/2008 9:16:14 AM PDT by cubreporter
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hillleree was the one that began in the attack mode from the very beginning. Hateful, nasty, critical, low down, mean attacks.

LOL, you sound just like the whining scumbag Obama!

19 posted on 04/19/2008 9:20:34 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: cubreporter

Both are a (0)what a joke they are the only ones the democrats have to offer for office.


20 posted on 04/19/2008 9:23:08 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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