The Media, Blogers and The Voters have been waiting for Obama to take Clinton on. It appears that he has today. Will it make a difference?
Obama Names Her
Finally:
A couple of months ago, Senator Clinton called me "naïve and irresponsible" for taking this position, and said that we could lose propaganda battles if we met with leaders we didn't like. Just yesterday, though, she called for diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. So I'm not sure if any of us knows exactly where she stands on this. But I can tell you this: when I am President of the United States, the American people and the world will always know where I stand.
By JASON CLAYWORTH
DesMoines REGISTER STAFF WRITER
October 12, 2007
Barack Obama took the most aggressive verbal swing against Hillary Clinton of his
presidential campaign during a speech this morning in Des Moines, naming the New
York senator multiple times throughout his talk and chastising her votes on the I
Iraq war.
Continue readingClinton Says She'd Negotiate With Iran
CANTERBURY, N.H. — Hillary Rodham Clinton called Barack Obama naive when he said he'd meet with the leaders of Iran without precondition.
But her comments Thursday on the issue prompted him to question whether she's changed her mind.
During a Democratic presidential debate in July, Obama said he would be willing to meet without precondition in the first year of his presidency with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
Standing with him on stage, Clinton said she would first send envoys to test the waters and called Obama's position irresponsible and naive.
But asked about it Thursday by a voter, the New York senator said twice that she, too, would negotiate with Iran "with no conditions."
"I would engage in negotiations with Iran, with no conditions, because we don't really understand how Iran works. We think we do, from the outside, but I think that is misleading," she said at an apple orchard.
Obama's campaign wondered whether Clinton had changed her mind.
Continue reading The Huffington Post
Obama: Bye-Bye Mr. Nice Guy
By John McCormick Tribune staff reporter
It may be bye-bye Mr. Nice Guy for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who said Thursday that he is opening the "next phase" of his campaign and plans to more pointedly and aggressively go after frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton.
"Now is the time where we're going to be laying a very clear contrast between myself and Senator Clinton," the Illinois Democrat told CNN. "Not just on the past, not just on Iraq, but on moving forward."
Obama's campaign has focused heavily on his biography, and he has been criticized by some supporters for not more forcefully challenging the New York senator, who has a wide lead in national polls and in some early voting states.
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Updated 10:12PM:
Obama's Campaign is entering a new Phase
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