Obama Responds to McCain and Clinton attacks in Terre Haute
It's becoming utterly expected that Hillary will pounce on anything Obama says and distort it, closely to be followed by McCain doing the same thing.
Obama said the above during a speech yesterday and his campaign released the following statement:"Senator Obama has said many times in this campaign that Americans are understandably upset with their leaders in Washington for saying anything to win elections while failing to stand up to the special interests and fight for an economic agenda that will bring jobs and opportunity back to struggling communities. And if John McCain wants a debate about who's out of touch with the American people, we can start by talking about the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans that he once said offended his conscience but now wants to make permanent."
McCain wants to ensure tax cuts for the 1% of America's richest citizens who pay the top rate of taxation and yet he has the sheer gall to refer to Barack Obama as showing "an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans".
You couldn't make this stuff up.
The difference between Obama and both Clinton and McCain is that they are quite clearly engaging in standard political mud slinging. By rising above it and making his case, Obama is making mincemeat of both of them.
UPDATE:
Clinton's camp are now emailing this shit around:
Grover Norquist: 'That sentence will lose him the election... He just announced to rural America: I don't like you.' "Grover Norquist, the anti-tax activist who leads an influential weekly meeting of conservatives, went as far as to argue that Obama's line would cost Democrats the White House. 'That sentence will lose him the election,' Norquist told ABC News. 'He just announced to rural America: 'I don't like you.'" [abcnews.com, 4/11/08]Obama has responded by emailing out the video below which has Gloria Borger pointing out that, at this point, Hillary and McCain are sharing the same goal. As Jeffrey Toobin says, it's a bit much for these two to point to the kid brought up by the single mom and label him the elitist.
Republican strategist Ed Rollins: Q: "On a scale of 1 to 10 how damaging is this?" Rollins: 'Ten.' [CNN, Lou Dobbs, 4/11/08]
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