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Obama Hits Clinton for Negative Campaign
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Clinton
on Saturday of shifting positions and waging a negative campaign as the two
candidates sped across Pennsylvania before next week's potentially
make-or-break primary election.
Obama, an Illinois senator who is the party's national front-runner but
behind in Pennsylvania, hopes an upset will hand him the Democratic
nomination and knock Clinton, a New York senator, out of the race to compete
against Republican John McCain in the November general election.
He said the former first lady had adopted an attitude of, "We're going to
throw whatever we want at Barack, whether it's true, whether it's false,
whether it's exaggerated, whether it's relevant, because that's, according
to Senator Clinton, what the Republicans will do."
"What's happened is that Senator Clinton has internalized a lot of the
strategies, the tactics that have made Washington such a miserable place
where all we do is bicker and all we do is fight," he told a rally in Paoli,
Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
His comments came after a contentious television debate on Wednesday that
focused largely on issues such as his controversial former pastor, his
recent relationship with a 1960s radical, his remarks about small-town
voters and his failure to wear a flag lapel pin.
Clinton has seen her sizable advantage over Obama in Pennsylvania dwindle to
a single-digit lead, but a Gallup daily tracking poll released on Saturday
gave her a slight edge among Democrats nationwide -- putting her ahead of
her rival in that ranking for the first time since mid-March.
Clinton, who said Obama could not stand the pressure of the nation's top job
after he complained about the questions in Wednesday's debate, alluded to
the same theme on Saturday.
"When you get into the general election and when you get into the White
House, the stresses and pressures of the general election and the job are
overwhelming," she told a rally in West Chester, another Philadelphia
suburb.
Clinton campaign advisers sought to play down expectations of a big victory
once polls close at 8 p.m. (0000 GMT) on Tuesday. They highlighted Obama's
financial advantage and advertising blitz.
Obama Hits Clinton for Negative Campaign
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Clinton
on Saturday of shifting positions and waging a negative campaign as the two
candidates sped across Pennsylvania before next week's potentially
make-or-break primary election.
Obama, an Illinois senator who is the party's national front-runner but
behind in Pennsylvania, hopes an upset will hand him the Democratic
nomination and knock Clinton, a New York senator, out of the race to compete
against Republican John McCain in the November general election.
He said the former first lady had adopted an attitude of, "We're going to
throw whatever we want at Barack, whether it's true, whether it's false,
whether it's exaggerated, whether it's relevant, because that's, according
to Senator Clinton, what the Republicans will do."
"What's happened is that Senator Clinton has internalized a lot of the
strategies, the tactics that have made Washington such a miserable place
where all we do is bicker and all we do is fight," he told a rally in Paoli,
Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia.
His comments came after a contentious television debate on Wednesday that
focused largely on issues such as his controversial former pastor, his
recent relationship with a 1960s radical, his remarks about small-town
voters and his failure to wear a flag lapel pin.
Clinton has seen her sizable advantage over Obama in Pennsylvania dwindle to
a single-digit lead, but a Gallup daily tracking poll released on Saturday
gave her a slight edge among Democrats nationwide -- putting her ahead of
her rival in that ranking for the first time since mid-March.
Clinton, who said Obama could not stand the pressure of the nation's top job
after he complained about the questions in Wednesday's debate, alluded to
the same theme on Saturday.
"When you get into the general election and when you get into the White
House, the stresses and pressures of the general election and the job are
overwhelming," she told a rally in West Chester, another Philadelphia
suburb.
Clinton campaign advisers sought to play down expectations of a big victory
once polls close at 8 p.m. (0000 GMT) on Tuesday. They highlighted Obama's
financial advantage and advertising blitz.
