Hillary might as well be putting a stalk of hay in her teeth after last night’s victory fueled by rural Pennsylvanians. You know, the bitter folk. So she sticks with her new best friends from the sticks as she challenges Barack to two debates in Oregon, one focusing on the problems of life in rural oregon.
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A bubbly Obama Girl goes in search of Super Delegates at the Philadelphia Democratic debate.
Hillary Clinton says Barack Obama “spent all day complaining about the hard questions he was asked” in the recent debate and he ought to toughen up if he wants to be president.
Watch that video of Obama shrugging off the Pennsylvania debate again. After careful analysis, the Hillbuzz blog insists that he was giving his opponent the finger and that the audience got it. Further research indicated that as a lefty, he wouldn’t have scratched his nose with the middle finger of his right finger unless it meant something, eh? And the Make them Accountable newsletter found more hidden meaning: “He also did a fist-shoving motion reminiscent of a certain Italian rude sexual gesture.”
Former president Bill Clinton says the “other guy’s” camp is a bunch of girlie men. Hillary knows how to cowboy up.
Sound Bite: This is a contact sport. If you don’t want to play, keep your uniform off.”
Jackie Broyles and Dunlap, the Red State Update boys, bring their Budweiser-fueled analysis to last night’s Democratic debate.
Jackie: “At least we learned why Obama hates the American flag.”
Dunlap: “[On Hillary’s Bosnia story] “I guess . . . if you only lie about something every other time you tell it, that’s all right.”
At a rally in Raleigh, NC today, Barack Obama said last night’s debate “was the rollout of the Republican campaign against me in November. It happened just a little bit early.” He says he’ll handle himself just fine against John McCain.
Sound Bite: “If the Republicans come at me, I will come right back at them. And I will come at them hard.”
“It does not get much more fun that these debates,” said Barack Obama today at a rally in Raleigh, NC, tongue firmly in cheek. “They are inspiring events.” Flashing a big smile, he went on to give Hillary Clinton the business: “Senator Clinton looked in her element. She was taking every opportunity to get a dig in there. That’s all right. That’s her right to, you know, twist the knife a little bit.”
Sound Bite: “It took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people. It took us 45 minutes.”
Asked about Minister Louis Farrakhan’s support of his candidacy, Barack Obama says he didn’t ask for it. He notes that he has denounced some of Farrakhan’s past remarks and that he has spoken out against anti-semitism on the part of African-Americans. There’s a great exchange between Clinton and Obama at the end of the clip on “rejecting” versus “denouncing.”
Barack Obama calls Hillary Clinton a flip-flopper on NAFTA in last night’s debate in Cleveland. He says as President, he’ll make “certain that every agreement that we sign has the labor standards, the environmental standards and the safety standards that are going to protect not just workers but consumers.”
Asked at last night’s debate if her campaign is responsible for distributing the Obama in turban and dress photo, Senator Clinton says no.
Sound Bite: “That’s not the kind behavior that I condone or expect from the people working in my campaign. But we have no evidence where it came from.”
In last night’s debate, the clip of Hillary Clinton mocking Barack Obama’s soaring rhetoric was played. Obama’s comment: “I thought Senator Clinton showed some good humor there. I wouldd give her points for delivery.”
During last night’s debate in Cleveland, Hillary Clinton complains that “In the last several debates, I seem to get the fiirst question all the time. And I don’t mind.” She then references a Saturday Night Live bit that spoofs the media’s infatuation with Obama. It seems to fall flat.
Sound Bite: “Maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and needs another pillow.”
Note the body language during Barack Obama’s closing statement at last night’s debate: When he refers to John McCain following George Bush’s failed economic policies, Obama points off stage, but when he talks about McCain and the Iraq war, he points and nods at Hillary Clinton, subconsciously, no doubt, suggesting that it is hers.
