"Obama Campaign Character Attacks Not Supported by Facts"

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Mon Mar-24-08 04:46 AM
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"Obama Campaign Character Attacks Not Supported by Facts"

DISCLOSURE:

�On a week when 11,000 pages of Hillary's White House schedule were made available to the public, the Obama campaign is continuing to attack Hillary's transparency. At the same time, the OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAS NOT RELEASED A SINGLE PAGE of his state senate schedule or records.�
�There are 20 years of Hillary's tax returns in the public record and she will release all of her post-White House returns next month. Sen. Obama has released ONLY ONE YEAR OF HIS TAX RETURNS TO THE PUBLIC and refuses to release any other years.�

FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT:

OBAMA�S ATTACK:
�Clinton credits herself with �helping to pass� the Family and Medical Leave Act as First Lady. But the 11,000 pages of schedules don�t contain a single mention of her involvement in the issue.�

EXPLANATION:
Debra Ness, President of the National Partnership for Women and Families, said about Hillary's involvement in FMLA:
�Hillary was instrumental in getting the Family and Medical Leave Act signed into law. We at the National Partnership for Women & Families as well as other family and labor groups had been pushing for the law for nearly 10 years. Hillary brought her work and experience on behalf of children and working families to the campaign trail in 1991 and 1992 and knew the importance of getting this legislation passed immediately. Two weeks after President Clinton was inaugurated, it was done.�

35 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE

OBAMA�S ATTACK:
�The oft-repeated Clinton claim that she has 35 years of public service experience is simply false. Fifteen of those years were spent at a law practice�

EXPLANATION:
During that time, Hillary was First Lady of Arkansas, Founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, was appointed by President Carter to the board of the U.S. Legal Services Corporation, Chaired Rural Health Advisory Committee in Arkansas and was on the board of directors of the Children's Defense Fund, among other activities in the public service.
Sen. Obama also worked in private practice for about a decade, and doesn't exclude that period of time from his experience in public service.

NAFTA:

OBAMA�S ATTACK:
The Obama campaign falsely claims that Hillary was not critical of NAFTA in the early 1990s:
�Clinton tells Ohio voters that she has �been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning.� Yet her own schedules show that as First Lady she attended at least four meetings to advocate for its original passage.�

EXPLANATION:
Here is what David Gergen, who organized at least one of the meetings, had to say about Hillary's views at the time:
�I was actually there in the Clinton White House during the NAFTA fight and I must tell you Hillary Clinton was extremely unenthusiastic about NAFTA. And I think that�s putting it mildly. I�m not sure she objected to all the provisions of it but she just didn�t see why her husband and that White House had to go and do that fight. She was very unhappy about it and wanted to move on to health care. So I do think there�s some justification for her camp saying, you know, she�s never been a great backer for NAFTA.
Hear more explanations to Obama�s attacks at
http://facts.hillaryhub.com/