Clinton, Obama: The Bitch-Slapping Continues
January 22, 2008 | 2:32 pm | by t-blender |Rate It:
laTimes.com: The rancorous rivalry between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama continued unabated today, a day after a South Carolina debate in which the two Democrats traded barbs and drew gasps from a predominantly black audience in Myrtle Beach.
In a conference call with reporters, Obama argued that both Clintons — the senator and her husband, former President Bill Clinton — had been twisting the facts about his record.
“It’s very clear that [they] … have been spending the last month attacking me in ways that are not accurate,” Obama said. “Sen. Clinton announced while we were still in Iowa that this was going to be her strategy and called it the fun part of campaigning. And, you know, I don’t think it’s the fun part to fudge the truth.”
Sen. Clinton called Obama’s arguments “rehearsed points” and suggested he was smarting from losses in New Hampshire and Nevada.
“I think what we saw last night was that he’s very frustrated,” she said at a press conference she held in Washington before flying to California. “He clearly came — he telegraphed it, he talked about it — he clearly came last night looking for a fight.”
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cnn.com: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday said Sen. Barack Obama had become frustrated by his losses in New Hampshire and Nevada, and she also accused her opponent of not backing up his words with action.
Obama responded quickly, saying Clinton was willing to “fudge the truth” in her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The bitter exchange continued the sharp confrontations from Monday night’s Democratic debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
The sniping came four days before Saturday’s Democratic primary in South Carolina.
“Sen. Obama is very frustrated,” Clinton told reporters in Washington. “The events of the last 10 or so days, particularly the outcomes of New Hampshire and Nevada, have apparently convinced him to adopt a different strategy.
“If you get the kind of looseness with the facts that Sen. Clinton’s displayed and you’re willing to say anything to get a political or tactical advantage, that erodes people’s trust in government. It makes them cynical,” Obama said.
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newsVine.com: Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama accused each other of repeatedly and deliberately distorting the truth for political gain Monday night in a highly personal, finger-wagging debate that ranged from the war in Iraq to Bill Clinton’s role in the campaign.
Obama told the former first lady he was helping unemployed workers on the streets of Chicago when “you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.”
Moments later, Clinton said that she was fighting against misguided Republican policies “when you were practicing law and representing your contributor … in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.”
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