Monday, January 21, 2008

Hillary, Edwards gang up on Obama

Any thoughts that John Edwards was angling for a spot on an Obama ticket are flying by the wayside tonight during the Democratic debate in South Carolina.
Edwards and Hillary Clinton are tag-teaming Barack Obama, who is the favorite in Saturday's primary.
Mrs. Clinton has hammered Obama on the more than 100 times he voted "present" instead of taking a stand on issues during his time in the Illinois State Legislature. After Obama failed to deal with that accusation in his response, Edwards reminded Obama that he had never explained his present votes and asked him to do so.
Obama did not help himself by giving a technical explanation about how the "present" votes meant that he had a problem with a certain aspect of a bill.

Mrs. Clinton and Edwards also teamed up on Obama during a question on health care with both noting that they favored universal health care while Obama's plan did not.

Mrs. Clinton has taken on Obama aggressively, sometimes to the point of being booed and hissed at by Obama supporters. Edwards has made his surgical strikes with a smile.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

John Edwards is by far the best candidate to win the Presidential election. I don't know why democrats don't realize that. People seem to hate hillary for no other reason than to just hate her, and people think barak is whimpy. Not mention America is still very much sexist and racist. If people think that racism and sexism are things of the past then just look at how women and blacks are paid less for the same work. I wish that racism and sexism were not part of US, but they are, and we need to not waste the opportunity bush has given us. This should be an easy election for democrats, lets not blow it by being naive.