Hillary Clinton spent an hour on Pumpkinhead’s program today where she promptly blamed Barack Obama for forcing her to inject race into the campaign and then claimed her vote to authorize Bush to go to war in Iraq was unfair.
Barack Obama wasted no time responding:
“This is, you know, fascinating to me. I think what we saw this morning is why the American people are tired of Washington politicians and the games they play. Look, Sen. Clinton made an unfortunate remark, an ill-advised remark, about Dr. King and Lyndon Johnson. I didn’t make the statement. I haven’t remarked on it, and she, I think, offended some folks who felt that it somehow diminished King’s role in bringing about the Civil Rights Act. She is free to explain that, but the notion that somehow this is our doing, is ludicrous.”
Obama then went further on the offensive and suggested that Clinton is lying.
“I have to point that instead of telling the American people about her positive vision for America, you know, Sen. Clinton spent an hour talking about me and my record in a way that was flat-out wrong. I stood up against the [Iraq] war when she was voting for it, at a time she didn’t read the intelligence reports, or give diplomacy a chance….I have to say, she started this campaign saying that she wanted to make history and lately she has been spending a lot of time re-writing it.”
14 Comments
+ at 5:01 pm
It’s a shame Barack Obama must waste his valuable time monitoring and responding to Hillary’s public pronouncements.
+ at 5:27 pm
I watched Meet the Press today and I have to say, Russert — who is almost as much of a jerk as Chris Matthews, held Hillary’s feet to the fire.
He wouldn’t let her squirm out of taking complete responsibility for her war vote. You could see how angry she was. I guess she’s used to the media swooning at her very presence.
He wasn’t quite so tough on the issue of race. I guess this makes sense on one level. He’s a white, wealthy man, with the president and vice president on his Rolodex. I would’ve liked to have seen him grill Hillary harder for her Martin Luther King/President Johnson comments.
+ at 5:41 pm
I have to say, she started this campaign saying that she wanted to make history and lately she has been spending a lot of time re-writing it.
ROFL!
This is the type of thinking on your feet Obama can do with his hands tied behind his back without breaking a sweat.
Hillary can’t hold a candle to this type of rapid fire thinking.
+ at 5:43 pm
sh and bill likely paid the founder of BET to say what he did about obama…just another factor I believe that is leading to the fall of America…. poor mr or mrs next president nice blog,
+ at 5:49 pm
John Edwards doesn’t buy Hillary’s bull shit either.
Edwards rips Clinton for MLK remark
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/739344,ed011308.article
Democrat John Edwards on Sunday waded into a dispute between his rivals, criticizing comments by Hillary Rodham Clinton and her husband that some have considered disparaging to Barack Obama and black people generally.
‘‘I must say I was troubled recently to see a suggestion that real change that came not through the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King but through a Washington politician. I fundamentally disagree with that,’’ Edwards told more than 200 people gathered at a predominantly black Baptist church.
Sen. Hillary Clinton recently was quoted as saying King’s dream of racial equality was realized only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Obama was telling a ‘‘fairy tale’’ about his opposition to the Iraq war.
+ at 6:24 pm
Well, Hillary is making history, though probably not in the sense she had hoped.
+ at 6:41 pm
You go Obama!
How different US Politics will be when the Clintons are gone – I can’t wait.
Now if we can just get Obama, an African American, to hold Hillary accountable for the worst African Genocide in history.
For 100 days in 1994, Hillary was silent while 800,000 blacks were butchered to death in the Rwanda Genocide. It’s unpleasant, I know, but if we forget history, we’re doomed to repeat it (Darfur).
What a positive message it would send to Africans, and Americans, to see the couple that turned their back on Rwanda defeated by an African-American.
Justice 4 Rwanda – Vote 4 Obama.
+ at 8:43 pm
I watched half of this pathetic mess and between Russert giving her softball questions, and Hillary claiming she never supported the war, I became ill and had to leave.
+ at 9:53 pm
Thanks for posting this, Christopher.
I’m shocked, but not surprised.
Regards,
Tengrain
+ at 10:14 pm
I suffered through maybe 20 minutes of the so-called interview and started screaming at my TV set. Hillary is as much a know-it-all as Bush. She make me furious to watch.
+ at 12:22 am
I just read about this on Comast’s news headlines – thanks for posting Obama’s response; he continues to impress me with his reasoned responses and refusal to get into the mud…glad to hear Edwards also criticized Clinton’s comments.
+ at 1:48 am
There were over 600 press releases with his responses- very dignified the way he handled it….
and also I found a bunch of articles where Edwards was quoted supporting Obama- and that these Hill tactics were acceptable…( I guess he remembers the swiftboating- must be very deja vu) this is a new kind of swiftboating using dead Legends and altered History to attack an opponent—I blogged on MLK tonight- that is my way to set the record straight- IF we could ALL blog on him this week- that would be another way to fight back…WITH the Truth…and each other…
Thank you for posting this….
namaste.
+ at 1:49 am
OMG…huge enigma typo…Edwards said the Hill tactics were UNACCEPTABLE…PERIOD..so sorry
+ at 10:23 am
They rebroadcast Meet the Press Sunday night on CNBC in Connecticut so I saw the last 40 minutes of it. Hillary was argumentative, opinionated and annoying. Worst of all, she reminded me as Bush and that odd arrogance of infallability. She’s perfect and knows it all. She’s never made a mistake in judgement. It must be nice to be so perfect. Most of us are human — not this bitch Hillary.