No more Ms Nice Guy

[The_Munchmaster]

....On a sad/side note, rumor is Ralph Nader is supposedly thinking of running again... can you say "republican plant?"

It's not a rumor.

[Flashermac]

Getting to be a catfight now.

 

Obama: Hillary taking false credit

 

 

LORAIN, Ohio â?? Sen. Barack Obama said today Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presents herself as if she was "co-president" from 1993 to 2000.

 

Mr. Obama, holding a town hall forum at a wall board manufacturing plant here, said his criticism of her position on the North American Free Trade Agreement is fair because she includes her time as first lady for eight years as part of her claim to "35 years of experience."

 

"She has essentially presented herself as co-president during the Clinton years," the Illinois senator charged during a press conference after the town hall concluded. "Every good thing that happened she says she was a part of, and so the notion that you can selectively pick what you take credit for and then run away from what isn't politically convenient, that doesn't make sense."

 

Link

 

[Flashermac]

Nader says he's running

 

 

Nader said today he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."

 

Nader, 73, said most people are disenchanted with the Democratic and Republican parties due to a prolonged Iraq war and a shaky economy. The consumer advocate also blamed tax and other corporate-friendly policies under the Bush administration that he said have left many lower- and middle-class people in debt.

 

"You take that framework of people feeling locked out, shut out, marginalized, disrespected," he said. "You go from Iraq, to Palestine/Israel, from Enron to Wall Street, from Katrina to the bungling of the Bush administration, to the complicity of the Democrats in not stopping him on the war, stopping him on the tax cuts."

 

"In that context, I have decided to run for president," Nader told NBC's "Meet the Press."

 

The Arab candidate

 

[Flashermac]

Hillary responds:

 

 

[sayjann]

fuck me Mr.Munchmaster..we actually agree on something.........

 

too many threads on the boring US Elections......

[Torneyboy]

Good idea :thumbup:

[Flashermac]

Costume party

 

With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a "dressed" Barack Obama.

 

The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya.

 

The senator was on a five-country tour of Africa.

 

"Wouldn't we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?" questioned one campaign staffer, in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

 

In December, the campaign asked one of its volunteer county coordinators in Iowa to step down after the person forwarded an e-mail falsely stating that Barack Obama is a Muslim.

 

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe quickly accused the Clinton campaign Monday of 'shameful offensive fear-mongering' for circulating the snap.

 

 

[Steve]

Well, the gloves are off. More on the story, from the above post.

 

...A photograph photograph of Obama, dressed as a Somali elder with white headdress and matching robe, created a stir when it was posted on the popular Drudge Report web site on Monday and the accompanying article said it had been circulated by Clinton campaign staffers.

 

The Obama campaign was incensed.

 

The Drudge Report said the photo was taken in 2006 and shows the Democratic front-runner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya. Obama has fought a whispering campaign from fringe elements that say erroneously he is a Muslim.

 

"On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we've seen from either party in this election," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.

 

Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams said in a statement: "Enough."

 

"If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely," Williams said.

 

She called the flap "nothing more than an obvious and transparent attempt to distract from the serious issues confronting our country today and to attempt to create the very divisions they claim to decry."...

 

[chuckwoww]

'Shameful' seems to be the new buzz word. The US election is starting to look childish. Shame on all of them.

[Steve]

The U.S. election is ALWAYS childish. Lots at stake, so the lowest common denominator wins out.

 

I think its like that in all elections. Tit for tat things go on. I enjoy Question Time sometimes on cable tv here. I like how they say ' the right honorable gentleman from Surrey' before they tell him in very nice language to go f**k himself...lol.