Obama Takes His Gloves Off

Obama and Clinton jab back and forth....arguing, talking over each other...

Barack, Barack, Barack, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary

Obama: "You just said that I complimented the Republican ideas. That is not true. Ronald Reagan is a transformative political figure because he was able to get Democrats to vote against their economic interests..."

Then this:

"When I was out there working in the streets, seeing people losing their jobs, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board of Wal-Mart."

Obama: "I did say we've got to be thinking in the same transformative way.."

Clinton:

"I was fighting when you were practicing law and representing ...Rezko...the slum-landlord in Chicago."

Edwards; "This kind of squabbling: how many people are going to get health care because of this?"

Comments

I thought it was important that Barack come out in this debate and clarify how the Clintons have misconstrued some of the things he has said ( Ronald Reagan ) and his positions ( on the war ). I think he did that well and made a strong argument. Hillary's attempts to refute him didn't work well. Saying he never takes responsibility was over-reaching and so was her saying he worked for a slum landlord which got booed. This bickering did work to his disadvantage by undercutting his campaign theme of rising above this type of politics. Edwards used the opportunity to really score some points by rising above the bickering and strongly come back to his themes.

Posted by Matt | January 21, 2008 10:57 PM

The debates are over, the words will fade away, each candidate held their base. HRC did everything but hit Obama over the head with a rolling pin.
She's smart but a shrew, skillful but condescending and patronizing. She'd do well on College Bowl, and probably a lot of MBAs in pant suits were proud of her.
If this great feminist wasn't married to a man who was the former President of the United Sates, she couldn't win a mayoral contest in Akron.
What was evident is that the Clintons are going to play very, very dirty. I'm a bit surprised how naked is her aggression. Again, that probably plays well with women in the corporate world, but to the rest of us, she's too full of herself.

Posted by fougasseu | January 21, 2008 11:15 PM

Obama, dont lie! You DID complement the republicans for being the party of ideas.

Here's the proof:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HnLy3R2DDw

Now, try denying that!

Are these "republican ideas" the sort of "change" that you want to impose on the US of A? Im sorry but you can kiss your "republican ideas" goodblye!

Posted by FJ Stratford | January 22, 2008 12:12 AM

Did she really shake her finger at him?

;0

I would love to find a good website with all/some/any of these women that are so behind her and discuss what being a woman in the 50's and 60's was like and what it's been like since. I would love for these women to tell me what, exactly, she has ever done for women's rights, black rights, hispanic rights. I don't see it in her record.

Talk is cheap. Walk the talk.

"We can no longer afford to build ourselves up by tearing someone else down. We can no longer afford to traffic in lies or fear or hate." Barack Obama

Vote hope, not fear. Vote unite, not divide and conquer.

Posted by G Davis | January 22, 2008 4:15 AM

When the Clinton campaign has to stoop so low that it brings up a non-issue like Rezko you know that they are desperate. They are very lucky that Barack Obama has the class and substance to stay away from opening the Clinton record of "questionable behavior". Lets just say it would not be a closet, it would be a vault.
I think that last night showed many Americans what they needed to see. A calm,cool and collected Barack Obama under fire from a desperate campaign trying to
misrepresent the facts to their advantage.

Posted by Davide | January 22, 2008 8:35 AM

FJ Stratford,

Did he say they were good????? NO!!!!!!!!!!!! He echoed the exact same thing that Bill Clinton said after he lost congress to the Republicans! For good or bad, the Republians did have ideas they were able to sell hook line and sinker to the country. Obviously they fell for it because Reagan won 49 out of 50 states and the Republicans took Congress under Clinton. How the hell are you going to dispute historical fact?

Posted by Dawn | January 22, 2008 9:35 AM

Hillary Clinton failed the DC Bar Examination, the first bar examination she took after law school. She hid this fact from her friends for 30-plus years. She had hoped to practice law in DC. After she failed the DC Bar Examination, though, she traveled to Arkansas and Bill. It's all in Carl Bernstein's new biography of Hillary. Clearly, she sensed after this failure that she couldn't stand on her own two feet. She never re-took the DC Bar Examination. This is relevant to her disdainful boast that, unlike Obama or Edwards, she'd get things right as President from Day One. She hasn't been able to get it right the first time on some very important matters: her DC Bar examination, her health care program during Bill's administration.

Posted by lynne | January 24, 2008 11:59 AM