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Clinton: White House Is Harder Than Debate
Friday, April 18, 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that if Democratic
presidential rival Barack Obama thinks their last debate was tough, it's
nothing compared to pressures in the White House.
"Having been inside the White House, I know the pressures inside the White
House, I know how hard it is every single day," Clinton told Philadelphia
television station FOX 29. "When the going gets tough you can't run away."
Obama has complained that the debate Wednesday night moderated by ABC News
focused on political divisions instead of issues that matter to Americans.
Many of the toughest questions were targeted at Obama, the front-runner for
the nomination.
"We were both asked some pretty tough questions and that's part of what
happens in a debate and in a campaign, and I know he spent all day yesterday
complaining about the hard questions he was asked," Clinton said, although
Obama did not complain about the difficulty of the questions, just the
substance.
"Being asked tough questions in a debate is nothing like the pressures you
face inside the White House," she said, according to a transcript of her
interview provided by her campaign.
The debate 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."
"Senator Clinton looked in her element," Obama said. "She was taking every
opportunity to get a dig in there. That's her right to kind of twist the
knife a little bit ... that's the lesson she learned when Republicans did it
to her in the 1990s."
Clinton: White House Is Harder Than Debate
Friday, April 18, 2008
PHILADELPHIA -- Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that if Democratic
presidential rival Barack Obama thinks their last debate was tough, it's
nothing compared to pressures in the White House.
"Having been inside the White House, I know the pressures inside the White
House, I know how hard it is every single day," Clinton told Philadelphia
television station FOX 29. "When the going gets tough you can't run away."
Obama has complained that the debate Wednesday night moderated by ABC News
focused on political divisions instead of issues that matter to Americans.
Many of the toughest questions were targeted at Obama, the front-runner for
the nomination.
"We were both asked some pretty tough questions and that's part of what
happens in a debate and in a campaign, and I know he spent all day yesterday
complaining about the hard questions he was asked," Clinton said, although
Obama did not complain about the difficulty of the questions, just the
substance.
"Being asked tough questions in a debate is nothing like the pressures you
face inside the White House," she said, according to a transcript of her
interview provided by her campaign.
The debate 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."
"Senator Clinton looked in her element," Obama said. "She was taking every
opportunity to get a dig in there. That's her right to kind of twist the
knife a little bit ... that's the lesson she learned when Republicans did it
to her in the 1990s."