Praise? H3ll, try a mutual admiration society!
Posted on 04/21/2008 11:25:13 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
The latest Democratic soap opera in Pennsylvania erupted this week when Sen. Barack Obama seemed to praise Republican Sen. John McCain.
At a campaign stop in Reading, Pa., Obama said “either Democrat would be better than John McCain. … And all three of us would be better than George Bush.”
Speaking at a rally in Johnstown, Pa., with Congressman John Murtha, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton struck back.
“Senator Obama said today that John McCain would be better for the country than George Bush,” Clinton said. “Now, Senator McCain is a real American patriot who has served our country with distinction, but Senator McCain would follow the same failed policies that have been so wrong for our country the last seven years.”
“We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain. And I will be that nominee,” Clinton said.
The McCain campaign was pleased. Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman, told Fox News: “The remark underscores that John McCain has the strength to change America and move this nation forward. Barack Obama is a new face who represents old ideas.”
This is not the first time Hillary sought to gain ground on Obama for praising a Republican.
Back in January, Obama told a Nevada newspaper:
"I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times ... I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing."
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“Senator Obama said today that John McCain would be better for the country than George Bush,” Clinton said.”
So while chastising Obama for praising McCain, she praises McCain in her response. lol
Whoops, posted wrong portion of quote.
“Now, Senator McCain is a real American patriot who has served our country with distinction, “
Praise, Hillary?
Hillary is schizo. This election has made her nuts.
But I like her more than that jerk Obama.
>> Hillary slaps Obama
That there’s what you call a “b!tch slapping”.
***Tucker Bounds, a McCain spokesman, told Fox News: “The remark underscores that John McCain has the strength to change America and move this nation forward.***
There’s that ‘Change’ thing again.
and so Hillary in laying the hate-republicans card now risks being accurately labeled as “The Polarizer”.
and obviously its all the fault of the VRWC.
“At a campaign stop in Reading, Pa., Obama said “either Democrat would be better than John McCain”
I see it as more of a wash.
The whole thing is SOOO mentally deficient. I can’t wait until tomorrow is over.
I enjoy watching the Anti-American, Anti-Military liberals beating each other bloody.
Let’s try it again...”This election has made her nuts”,”That one has been nuts”, and a “sociopath” since the 60’s.
An adult female politician living in her little girl dream of wanting to be as a Princess. We have yet to see the real tantrums. She’s just warming up so far.
I am waiting with baited breath for her head to just explode one day in a fit of rage. I would pay two weeks pay for a front row seat for that show.
Didn’t she say recently that there were only two candidates ready to govern from Day 1, her and McCain? So it’s OK for her to praise McCain but it’s not OK for Obama?
I want to see Shrillary totally be herself when she doesn’t do her script thing.
That’s going to be some blowup.
Praise? H3ll, try a mutual admiration society!
“Fellow Senator....”
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