What Obama wishes he could say

[Emillereid]

What Obama wishes he could say
By: John F. Harris and Jim VandeHei
May 1, 2008 12:08 PM EST

Thrown off his game by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright uproar, Barack Obama’s strongest answer to Hillary Rodham Clinton is one he won’t give: Senator, do you really want to get in a contest with me over who has more unsavory personal associations? <snip>

It also includes new ones, like recent stories raising questions about the web of personal and financial associations around Bill Clinton. Since leaving the presidency, he has traveled the globe to exotic places and with sometimes exotic characters, raising money for projects such as his foundation and presidential library and making himself a very wealthy man.

You want to talk hypocrisy? How about piously criticizing me for Jeremiah Wright when you have a trail of associations that includes golden oldies like Webb Hubbell? (‘90s flashback: He was one of Hillary Clinton’s legal partners and closest friends, whom she installed in a top Justice Department job before prosecutors sent him to prison.) It also includes modern hits like Frank Giustra. (In case you missed it: There was a January New York Times story, which did not get the attention the reporting deserved, highlighting how this Canadian tycoon and major Bill Clinton benefactor was using his ties to the ex-president to win business with a ruthless dictatorship in Khazakstan.)

Obama has never pressed Clinton to talk about Marc Rich, even though the former fugitive financier who won a controversial pardon from Bill Clinton gave money to her first Senate campaign.

He has never mentioned her brothers, even though Hugh and Tony Rodham once defied Bill Clinton’s own top foreign policy advisers by entering into a strange investment in hazelnuts in the former Soviet republic of Georgia (they later dropped the deal) and Hugh Rodham took large cash payments for trying to broker presidential pardons. ...more at link: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=A4B83756-3048-5C12-0041E3B83E0D4634

[LakeSamish706]

1. And I as an Obama supporter am happy that he has stayed above this as well....

Thats part of his charm IMO... He doesn't need to stoop to Hillary's level or the Repubs. level to win both the nomination and the GE.

[maxsolomon]

2. he won't need to, but as to mccain...

Adultery is his Achille's Heel, and the GOP has set precedent: its a legitimate topic.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. ABSOLUTELY

Obama should concentrate on getting out the facts on McCain. This one is a very damning ones in the eyes of the GOP--not the leadership, who are lying hypocrites, but the little guys who only go to the polls to pull the R lever. We must concentrate on getting out the facts to them. We can do this quite effectively using McCain's own words in many cases-like his remarks on the economy.

[Avalux]

3. I am glad Obama didn't.

There are MANY Clinton skeletons - the GOP would have no problem digging them up; Obama chose not to. I admire that about him.

[JimGinPA]

6. While I Agree With You, It Wouldn't Bother Me If Somebody Pressed The M$M About Covering It

[boobooday]

5. I'm glad Obama doesn't bring them up

But where is the media?

[DemsUnited]

7. Good article, tip of the iceburg. Clinton baggage is enormous and

super D's know this (hence the flocking to Obama in spite of the last few weeks).

Kick & Rec & thanks for posting.