When attacked with lies, Obama now fighting back.

RENO, Nev., Jan. 18 -- The hundreds of people who turned out at the University of Nevada on Friday heard Sen. Barack Obama deliver a lofty stump speech about bridging the nation's divides and creating a groundswell for change. But they also witnessed him engage in the more mundane task of rebutting attacks from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on his positions on Social Security taxes and on the proposed nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

"When Senator Clinton implied that I'm for Yucca when I've never been for it, that's a problem. That erodes people's confidence in our politics," Obama said.

It was a sign of a lesson learned the hard way: Let no attack go unanswered.

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Obama has 100 percent ratings from abortion rights groups.

But the mailing in New Hampshire, which stated in bold that Obama was "unwilling to take a stand on choice," arrived much closer to the vote there than in Iowa. His campaign rushed out an automated phone call two days before primary day, but on the final day of the campaign, volunteers reported with dismay that many voters were asking about Obama's stance on abortion rights.

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Watching the new course Obama has taken, some campaign insiders like to think the New Hampshire loss was not the worst outcome for a candidate who is relatively new to the national stage, compared with Clinton, and followed a relatively easy path to the Senate. Had Obama won in New Hampshire, said one prominent Democrat, he might have become the prohibitive favorite for the nomination, "but he wouldn't be ready for the general election, he wouldn't be ready for the White House."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011803765_2.html?sid=ST2008011900229

Thank you Senator Clinton, for providing Obama with such fine target practice against Rovian-style attacks.

You want this guy to be president. We get it. Geesh...

Obama's halo is blinding. Long live Obama. :rofl:

You're right about one thing. He's just as shifty as they are. You said it yourself, didn't you?

I don't know what you are referring too when you say, "you said it yourself, didn't you?"

He's responding to lies, that doesn't make him a liar. Quite the opposite.

;)

Go Obama! :-) :hi:

The sound's a bit off, but it's still funny as all get out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDo8Gqa4SJw

He's fighting back against Clinton's Rovian tactics with humor.

She's demonstrating herself to be the consumate divider and he gets to show his ability to unite.