在线国产一区二区_成人黄色片在线观看_国产成人免费_日韩精品免费在线视频_亚洲精品美女久久_欧美一级免费在线观看

   

'Two against one' in Clintons' vs Obama campaign

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-01-24 08:00

WASHINGTON - In 1992 Bill Clinton vowed Americans would get "two for the price of one" if they elected him with wife Hillary at his side. Now it is two against one as the Clintons gang up on Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential race.


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks to supporters as her husband, former president Bill Clinton, listens at a rally in Las Vegas, January 18, 2008. In 1992 Bill Clinton vowed Americans would get "two for the price of one" if they elected him with wife Hillary at his side. Now it is two against one as the Clintons gang up on Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential race. [Agencies] 

Bill Clinton, whose eight years as president in the 1990s are remembered fondly by many Democrats despite the drama of his Monica Lewinsky scandal, has gone from top dog to attack dog on the campaign trail on behalf of his wife.

The former president went negative against Obama in New Hampshire early this month, angrily accusing the news media of not looking more deeply into the "fairy tale" of Obama's record on Iraq as an Illinois senator.

In South Carolina this week, he is trying to make Obama pay for comments he made last week in Nevada about the late President Ronald Reagan, a Republican icon held in disdain by many Democrats.

Obama had said Reagan "changed the trajectory of America" and that the Republicans over the past 10-15 years were "the party of ideas" because they were challenging conventional wisdom.

"I thought he was running against me for a while there in Nevada when he said that Republicans had most of the new ideas and you had to challenge the conventional wisdom of the '90s," Clinton told reporters in South Carolina. "I thought we challenged the conventional wisdom of the '90s."

'TRIANGULATION'

An Obama supporter and ex-presidential candidate himself, former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley said Bill Clinton is conveniently ignoring his own presidential past of "triangulation," adopting some Republican ideas in order to get re-elected in 1996.

"It was indeed in the Clinton administration ... that the whole concept of triangulation took place, which means appearing to be Republican to enough people to get elected, and that's what happened," Bradley told MSNBC.

"So Barack Obama isn't supporting the ideas of Republicans. Bill Clinton actually took the ideas of Republicans and used them in a Democratic way to get re-elected," Bradley said.

Bill Clinton's attacking role has gotten many political experts wondering whether New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's reliance on her husband will sooner or later backfire on her in her drive to become the first woman U.S. president.

"Clinton's current role confirms my ongoing reservations about whether the nation can deal with two presidents in the White House -- one of them elected and the other retired," said Linda Fowler, a professor of government at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

Democrats hold a natural advantage this year with many Americans fatigued of the two-term George W. Bush White House, but the Bill Clinton role is an intangible that could affect voter thinking, experts believe.

America has never had to deal with a former president re-entering the White House as a spouse.

"It does raise some questions about what a Clinton White House will look like and the power Bill will have," said presidential historian Thomas Alan Schwartz of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.

The onslaught from not one but two Clintons has clearly frustrated Obama, who would be America's first black president.

At an acrimonious debate on Monday night in South Carolina ahead of Saturday's Democratic vote there, Obama resurrected a line used by many critics to describe the Clintons, that they will say anything to get elected.

"No, he's not getting to me," Obama told NBC's "Today" show on Wednesday. "It's just that, I think, in the Clinton campaign, they have had former President Clinton delivering a bunch of inaccurate statements about my record. So, naturally, I've got to make sure that those are corrected."



Top World News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
主站蜘蛛池模板: 久久免费国产 | 综合网av| 国产在线h | 一级黄色录像片 | 可以免费看黄色的网站 | 在线中文av| 五月婷婷亚洲 | 日韩在线视频播放 | 久久精品国产视频 | 国产成人av网站 | 日韩视频网 | aaa一级片 | 国产免费一区二区三区免费视频 | 草草免费视频 | 午夜激情福利视频 | 午夜视频在线看 | 国产成人99久久亚洲综合精品 | 91午夜精品亚洲一区二区三区 | 国产精品二区一区二区aⅴ污介绍 | 日韩在线不卡 | 黄色一级生活片 | 久久依人 | www黄色片 | 亚洲国产中文字幕 | 日韩一级黄色片 | 日本视频免费 | 中文在线观看免费高清 | 黄色av毛片 | 黄色小视频在线观看 | 黄色大片免费观看 | 欧美日韩一区二区在线观看 | 香蕉视频网站 | 亚洲毛片在线 | 国产成人一区二区三区 | 黄色大片av | 国产99对白在线播放 | 国产乱码一区二区三区 | 精品久久影院 | 国产精品一区二 | 午夜xxx | 婷婷六月色 |