Taking Aim at Clinton ( WaPo Blog)

Sorry if this has been posted before. It's interesting seeing the gloves come off - remember when they couldn't say enough nice things about each other? My candidate has been a little more critical as well. We may get a chance to see another side of our candidates which can only help to serve us in our decision to support.

Hillary Clinton should be prepared for a long night at Tuesday's Democratic debate. Having been the favorite target at the Republican debate in Orlando a week ago, the New York senator now faces up-close-and-personal criticism from her leading Democratic rivals in Philadelphia.

Obama tipped his hand over the weekend with an interview in the New York Times and some sharp words for Clinton while campaigning in Iowa. He accused Clinton of not being candid with voters on Iran, Iraq and Social Security and said she would not be able to unite the country if elected.

"'It is absolutely true that we have to make these distinctions clearer. And I will not shy away from doing that," he told the Times.

Edwards went to New Hampshire Monday for what aides called a major thematic speech in which Clinton was a major punching bag. Broadly he portrayed Washington as awash in corrupt relationships between lobbyists and politicians and then specifically put Clinton squarely in the nexus of that relationship.

"Senator Clinton's road to the middle class takes a major detour right through the deep canyon of corporate lobbyists and the hidden bidding of K Street in Washington - and history tells us that when that bus stops there it is the middle class that loses," he said, according to a prepared text distributed by his campaign.

If both Obama and Edwards stay true to this course, the Democratic race for president could have a different tone and feel by the end of this week, signaling what has become plainly obvious in a year in which one of the standard mantras has been: it's still early. In reality, the Iowa caucuses are now just nine weeks away

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more at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/29/post_162.html#more

the more desperate he gets...he spins folks, he spews folks, damn you'd think he was a republican. I bet he really is...don't you all.

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He did the same to Gore.

Yep - it isn't like that ass doesn't have an agenda regarding Democrats in general and Hillary in particular.

of some of her policies and actions.

I apologize that I'm not familiar with Dodd's or Richardson's statements regarding this.

I think it's the time - the approach of Iowa - which is shifting the campaigning into higher gear. As I said, we may now get to see a new side of our candidates, and it can't help but be enlightening.

I definitely don't go for unsubstantiated mud-slinging, but a heated debate is never out of line.

In his dispair, Barack's trying to nip at the heels of the frontrunner.