Hillary Clinton today said John McCain would "let that phone ring, and ring, and ring" if he received a 3 a.m. phone call about the economy as president.
Clinton was discussing John McCain's economic speech, made Tuesday, in which McCain called for economic experts to meet and arrive at an answer to the recent swell of home foreclosures.
Barack Obama, in his own speech on the economy today, offered his own harsh criticism of McCain. Clinton's campaign circulated the video this afternoon as both candidates sought to denounce McCain's economic platform.
A Gallup poll yesterday caught a lot of attention for claiming 28 percent of Hillary Clinton supporters would defect to John McCain in an Obama-McCain match-up. The poll said 19 percent of Obama supporters would jump ship. Today Gallup released a follow-up showing that of the Hillary defectors, nearly 40 percent of Independents and Conservative Democrats jumpt to McCain if Obama is the nominee. Full results after the jump.
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Hillary Clinton's campaign is claiming that Barack Obama "copies" Clinton's proposed $30 billion economic stimulus plan in calling for a $30 billion plan of his own.
"If Senator Obama has to copy policy ideas when he's a candidate on the campaign trail, how is he going to solve people's problems if he's president?" said Clinton policy director Neera Tanden in an e-mail. "When it comes to fixing the economy, we need leadership, not followership."
The attack is reminiscent of another that Clinton pushed just a few weeks ago. In a February debate, she accused Obama of copying words from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and thus running on "change you can Xerox." The line was met with boos from the audience.
After this morning's speculation of an Obama-Bloomberg ticket, now we can move on to McCain-Romney. The former GOP rivals campaigned together today in Utah. Romney will stay with McCain this afternoon for a fundraiser in Colorado.
Mike Soraghan has a story on Speaker Nancy Pelosi responding to the letter sent by 20 Clinton fundraisers blasting Pelosi for saying super-delegates should support the winner of the pledged delegate count. Here is Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly's comment on the letter in Soraghan's story:
Not shying away from speculation of a fusion ticket, Barack Obama thanked New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) for his "extraordinary leadership" while giving a major speech on the economy.
Bloomberg introduced Obama at Cooper Union. Obama then opened his speech by lauding Bloomberg for his record on the economy and on education.
"At a time when Washington is divided in old ideological battles, he shows us what can be achieved when we bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions," Obama said, according to his prepared remarks.
Chris Good has a story coming, but while you wait here is the full text of Obama's speech. After being introduced by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Obama laid out "six core principles for reform" and proposed a second stimulus package.
Obama called President George Bush's plan "completely divorced from reality." The Illinois Senator also hit John McCain saying McCain's plan "amounts to little more than watching this crisis happen."
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds had a ready response to Obama's speech. "No amount of rhetoric can hide Senator Obama's clear record of embracing the liberal tax and spend, big government policies that hit hardworking American families at a time when they're most vulnerable, and are certain to move America backward," Bounds said.
Obama does not mention Hillary Clinton in the speech. Read the entire speech after the jump. Video here.Read more...
At a campaign event this afternoon, former President Bill Clinton said any concern over the escalating fighting between his wife and Barack Obama is overblown. "If a politician doesn't wanna get beat up, he shouldn't run for office. If a football player doesn't want to get tackled or want the risk of an occasional clip he shouldn't put the pads on."
"Let's just saddle up and have an argument," Clinton said. "What's the matter with that? That's what America's about, right?"
Obama spokesman Bill Burton has called on Hillary Clinton to "reject the insinuations" in a letter from 20 Clinton fundraisers and donors blasting Speaker Nancy Pelosi for publicly saying super-delegates should support the winner of the pledged delegate count.
"This letter is inappropriate and we hope the Clinton campaign will reject the insinuation contained in it. Regardless of the outcome of the nomination fight, Senator Obama will continue to urge his supporters to assist Speaker Pelosi in her efforts to maintain and build a working majority in the House of Representatives," Burton said in a statement. The letter is after the jump.
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