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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 03:43 PM
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Obama campaign: "long on the need for change and inspiration and short on specifics"
Edited on Mon Jan-28-08 03:52 PM by rodeodance
All fired up for the Lady!! Go Hillary!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080128/pl_bloomberg/ao9cr9bfebjm;_ylt=AhxU4VVc1cq5ELv6aYiW3Kys0NUE


Clinton Adjusts Obama Tactics in Run to Super Tuesday

Heidi Przybyla and Indira Lakshmanan 34 minutes ago

Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama, fresh from a landslide victory over Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, plans to continue a campaign that is long on the need for change and inspiration and short on specifics.


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`Economic Challenges'

In an interview on CBS's ``Face the Nation'' yesterday, Hillary Clinton, 60, zeroed in on economic issues. ``I am particularly focused on doing what I can to try to get President Bush to be much more vigorous in responding to our economic challenges,'' she said. ``It doesn't seem as though he really gets it.''

On the economy, the difficulty for Clinton will be to differentiate her positions from Obama's. According to people familiar with her campaign, she plans to hit harder on the housing crisis and, in California, on her alternative energy policies. The campaign is also counting on a victory in tomorrow's Florida primary to give her momentum.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 03:45 PM
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1. Could you add the link to your post so people could read the full piece? NT
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R_M Donating Member (425 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 03:47 PM
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2. Links please?
Thanks!

Go Hillary!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 03:53 PM
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5. sorry, LINK added
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 03:47 PM
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3. You were being sarcastic, right?
I mean, really...that was a joke. Please tell me that was a joke.

`I am particularly focused on doing what I can to try to get President Bush to be much more vigorous in responding to our economic challenges,'' she said. ``It doesn't seem as though he really gets it.''

Maybe you'll explain to the group just what was so specific about that load of pap? It was about as specific as saying "I want change!" So come on...you just forgot the sarcasm smiley, right?

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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 03:54 PM
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6. no joke on my part
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 04:01 PM
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7. Wow.
Edited on Mon Jan-28-08 04:15 PM by Atman
So you think that Hillary quote was somehow presenting specifics? Are you frikkin serious? If that's all it takes to make you believe someone is telling you something factual, please give me a call. I can link you to some bridges I have for sale on e-bay.

Are you married? An office worker? Then you've used the same kind of meaningless bullshit to lie to your spouse or boss.

Whatever...those are totally empty words. "I'll do what I can." Do you even realize what that means? It means that you don't have to do SHIT, and you've still done what you "can." Because you "couldn't." I can't honestly believe people get sucked in by meaningless drivel like this. Weasel words. Bullshit. And you're actually taking it as a "specific plan" that she'll "do what she can" to hold Bush accountable. Oh...my...god.

:wow:

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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-28-08 03:49 PM
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4. And yet, before I was a supporter, the one thing that impressed me about him
was how much info there was on his website. His issue papers were L-O-N-G and full of specifics on exactly what he wanted to do. Still haven't read them all, but I remember being annoyed a little as I printed them out. At that point in the summer I wanted one page issue papers for our Dem Party booth at the state fair, and his were several pages long.
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