Obama’s Clinton problem surfaces — in GOP ads
Author: markw // Category: Politics/Religion, Video
Steven Thomma
WASHINGTON — Get ready for a special guest star in the Republican campaign against Democrat Barack Obama: Hillary Clinton. Months of bare-knuckled campaign fights, pitched rhetoric and debate jousting produced a treasure chest of sound bites and videos of Clinton ripping Obama as inexperienced, elitist or simply wrong on various issues.
Now that the Democratic primaries are over and Obama has clinched his party’s nomination, the Republicans are ready to pounce. The Republican National Committee on Wednesday rolled out new ads quoting Clinton criticizing Obama, the first of what likely will be many such ads.
In one, Clinton is heard in a Democratic debate ripping Obama’s stance that he’d meet with foreign dictators without preconditions if elected. “I disagree with his continuing to say that he would meet with some of the worst dictators in the world without preconditions and without the real, you know, understanding of what we would get from it,” she says. More
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