HRC Hits Obama In WI Health Care Mailer
NBC/NJ's Aswini Anburajan has nabbed the new Hillary Clinton mailer circulating in WI that hits Barack Obama for offering a health care plan that leaves 15M Americans without coverage.
"Barack Obama, Which Of These People Don't Deserve Health Care?" the front reads, above a photo of seven people of different ages and races.
The mailer says that HRC is the only candidate, Dem or Republican, whose plan would cover everyone.
The Obama campaign fought back in a conference call featuring Ted Kennedy and WI Gov. Jim Doyle.
Kennedy told reporters in a conference call that he had been fighting for universal healthcare for 38 years and would not have endorsed Obama if he didn't believe that he wasn't for it or couldn't pass it. He told reporters that the Clinton campaign was resorting to the same kind of "fear mongering" that had scuttled their efforts to et a health care plan through Congress in 1994.
Kennedy also introduced a new line of attack on Clinton, saying that neither she nor her husband were initially for the S-chip program which he introduced in the Senate with Republican Orin Hatch after the failure of Clinton's health care plan in 1994.
But he had no answer for why the Obama campaign had also gone negative in their ads about healthcare and engaged in what some claimed was "fear mongering" as well, by dropping a mailer that had an eerie resemblance to the Harry and Louise ads that were released by drug companies to discredit the Clinton plan in the early nineties.
"We've seen this in the past," Kennedy said of Clinton's tactics. "Carter insisted there was health planning and cost containment. Those are legitimate debates. But what is not legitimate is to undermine the central position of Barack Obama of not being for universal comprehensive healthcare. That is the distortion… is a misrepresentation and that is fundamentally wrong."
Doyle, who has in other calls criticized Clinton for not spending enough time campaigning in the Badger State, said today that HRC's campaign has spent more time attacking Obama than talking to WI voters.
"It reflects how Senator Clinton has conducted the campaign in Wiscosin," he said about the mailer. "Before she even came to the state she started running negative TV ads which distorted Senator Obama's record."
How is the Obama mailer negative?
I've seen it and it just says that people are worried about rising INSURANCE costs which is true. If the Clintons weren't basing their whole plan on forcing us to buy off a list of insurance companies that they've approved...companies that are profiting off those mandates...then they might have a case.
The Clintons plan does little if anything to help us get health CARE. The whole plan is about getting a universal INSURANCE program.
Sorry, Obama's mailer should have hit harder than it did. What the heck good will it do us to continue the same dysfunctional health INSURANCE system rather than spending the money on actual health CARE?
Obama's plan isn't the best, but at least he's not forcing us to buy something we can't afford.
Is it even grammatically correct to say, "... which of these people don't..."? I'm pretty sure it should be, "... which of these people doesn't..." because "which of" is singular. Am I wrong?
Why is Hillary still complaining about this ad which is now a mailer. The same ad was ran on TV and she complainned then. Now she pretends that it is a new attack on her health plan. It's the same response to her ad that Obama's health plan doesn't cover everyone. It's like she thinks the public is stupid. Act more indignant and perhaps this time the public will listen. She keeps doing the same thing hoping for different results.