Great find - thanks for posting this ;o)

Thanks for posting- I was watching the debate- Hillary was great!

I noticed that Hillary remarked about his many takes and explanations he has gone through on his slip ups.  Was it the slip up on Wright, or the slip up on church clinging, or the one........................ Change is his theme, ya know.

Always attacking Hillary.

Good catch campskunk.

Yeah, you know skunk, hope and change and all that!!!  Give me a break and please vote Hillary, the change America really needs!

How could they forget this 3/11 Obama press memo before the controversy even took off?  They pushed the story to begin with.

http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics /2008/03/team_obama_hits_clinton_on_exp. html

From the memo

Bosnia:

Senator Clinton has pointed to a March 1996 trip to Bosnia as proof that her foreign travel involved a life-risking mission into a war zone. She has described dodging sniper fire. While she did travel to Bosnia in March 1996, the visit was not a high-stakes mission to a war zone. On March 26, 1996, the New York Times reported that "Hillary Rodham Clinton charmed American troops at a U.S.O. show here, but it didn't hurt that the singer Sheryl Crow and the comedian Sinbad were also on the stage."

There's a real difference between the campaign sending stuff to press (as we all know both camps do) and the candidates themselves doing it. I was so surprised and impressed when Obama didn't hammer Clinton when she as much as admitted she lied about the Bosnia stuff. Unlike Clinton, who made every desperate attempt she could to use every little issue. That whole Weather Underground thing was just appalling.

has pushed every. single. major negative attack on Clinton for the last year- basically.  The only one that wasn't pushed by Axelrod and company was the pre-NH tear thing.  Absolutely disgusting and Obama deserves everything he got from ABC tonight- hell, it could have been a lot worse.

that these sorts of "distractions" are what he has been campaigning against, or as he never lets us forget, he brings to us a "new kind of politics." But as I've said for a very long time now, a "new kind of politics" is really just the same old politics, but with a gift for gab. He cannot have it both ways.

Isn't that what BO said during the debate?  If the candidates "misspeak," the media and other candidates should just ignore it.  Funny how that argument materialized when Obama started "misspeaking."

The latest Iowa poll, from the Des Moines Register, shows Barack Obama has pulled ahead of Hillary Clinton and is now leading there. We even lead among women by five points.

While that's all good news, there was even more telling news this weekend.

The poll also showed that -- by a wide margin -- Iowans have found that Senator Clinton is running the most negative campaign of any candidate.

And sure enough, less than 12 hours after the poll results were released, the Clinton campaign launched multiple frantic, baseless attacks against Barack Obama. The emerging pattern is disturbing: as Senator Clinton's poll numbers slide, the campaign of "inevitability" becomes more desperate and negative by the day.

It's exactly one month until the Iowa caucuses, and Senator Clinton has promised that this is just the beginning of her negativity. She even quipped yesterday that attacking other Democrats is "the fun part" of campaigning for the presidency.

Barack will always respond swiftly and forcefully with the truth when attacked, but we have to do more to stop this kind of politics once and for all.

These attacks take attention away from solving people's problems and exact a real cost on our political process.

We need to respond by increasing the cost of these tactics for her campaign.

If 10,000 people donate in the next 48 hours in response, it will show our opponents that when they attack Barack Obama, it literally makes our campaign stronger.

You can make them think twice about continuing these attacks. Respond now with your donation of $25: https://donate.barackobama.com/costofneg ativity

Here's a quick rundown of her campaign's attacks from yesterday alone:

- They falsely claimed that Barack Obama doesn't support universal health care, even though he's had a detailed plan for it since May that would provide affordable health insurance for every single American and do more to cut the cost of health care than any other plan in this race.

- They attacked our youth organizing efforts and tried to intimidate Iowa college students who plan to participate in the caucus (the latest Iowa poll shows Obama with a commanding lead among young people).

- They even published an article on their website attacking Barack for telling his kindergarten teacher he wanted to be president when he grew up. (I'm not kidding.)

Senator Clinton and her campaign may find it fun, but this kind of disingenuous attack politics is exactly what turns people off about our political process.

You can set the tone for the next 30 days. Will you respond to these attacks with a donation of $25 right now?

https://donate.barackobama.com/costofneg ativity

While Barack continues to talk about real problems like the war in Iraq, the tens of millions of uninsured, and the need for fundamental change in Washington, Senator Clinton's personal attacks come from the same, tired textbook of establishment politics.

These attacks are borne out of cynical political calculation, plain and simple.

But if 10,000 people respond to these attacks on Barack in the next 48 hours, we can change the math for them.

Thank you,

David

David Plouffe

Campaign Manager

Obama for America

P.S. -- If you're curious about why our campaign is continuing to build momentum in Iowa, check out this short film we put together for our supporters there:

https://donate.barackobama.com/iowasuppo rtervideo

    multiple times...that he'd let the Clintons talk about and answer questions about Bosnia.

   What more do you want?

I can't believe you guys are feigning indignation about some memos while giving Hillary a pass on the Ayers thing.

yes obama answered and looky weasely on that, yeah, ok dude just because you personally did not slime her constantly, everybody in your campaign did, out of mass hysteria or something

quit trying to be so perfect all the time, its ok obama, let yourself shine

I'm so glad you put this information out there. Obama lies with impunity most of the time. It is staggering how he looks right at the camera and  comes out with another whopper.

http://www.huntersandshooters.com/index. php

AHSA Endorses Obama  
Obama: He "gets it"

Today, as President of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), I announced our endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.   Because the gun issue has recently become a factor in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, I want to share the remarks I made today:

As a gun rights organization we have not come to this decision lightly.  We were formed two years ago because our research shows that millions of gun owners wanted a change.  They not only wanted an organization that would protect their gun rights but an organization that was also committed to the protection of their communities as well as the protection of our lands. We reached out to the Obama campaign several weeks ago to offer our support and approval as was reported by Paul Bedard of US News and World Report. We believe recent attacks on Senator Obama's stand on the 2nd Amendment and his commitment to our hunting and shooting heritage are unfair and American Hunters and Shooters Association is stepping up to set the record straight.

Senator Obama has clearly demonstrated his commitment to the 2nd Amendment by his vote in support of the Vitter amendment to HR 5441, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill of 2007.  This amendment prevents the Government from confiscating guns in a time of crisis or emergency. Imagine how the citizens felt during Hurricane Katrina when government agents kicked in doors to confiscate law abiding citizens' guns at a time when they needed them the most.  We know Senator Obama "gets it."  To say that he is an elitist is patently ridiculous. To hunters and shooters everywhere, Senator Obama's vote demonstrated a fundamental understanding of the meaning of the 2nd Amendment which means he recognizes the individual right of all citizens to keep and bear arms.  Senator Clinton, on the hand, failed to grasp the importance of this critical issue to hunters and shooters and voted against this Amendment.  She turned her back on America's gun owners. In addition, Senator Obama's commitment to conservation and protection of our natural resources and access to public lands demonstrates to us his commitment to America's hunting and shooting heritage. Senator Obama will be a strong and authentic voice for America's hunters and shooters and it is with great pleasure that we endorse his candidacy.

Ray Schoenke
Wednesday, April 16, 2008