Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Obama/Hillary Face-off

Things are definitely heating up in the race for the Democratic nomination. Earlier in the week Hillary Clinton criticized Obama for plagarizing part of his speech in Wisconsin. Apparently he took a sentence from Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick 2006 speech and failed to give credit to Patrick. Hillary criticized Obama by saying, "If your whole candidacy is about words, they should be your own." However Obama did not seem to think her claim was a big deal and I guess the American people did not either considering he is on a 10 straight winning streak. However, today in Dallas Obama gave a speech to 17,000 people at Reunion Arena making some jabs at Hillary. Obama said, "Today Senator Clinton told us there is a choice in this race, and I couldn't agree with her more." "But contrary to what she was saying it's not a choice between speeches and solutions. It's a choice between the politics of divisions and distractions that did not work in South Carolina, that did not work in Wisconsin, and that will not work in Texas or a new politics of common sense, of common purpose, shared sacrifices, shared prosperity." Both candidates are controversial and it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. Texas will definitely be a defining moment in this campaign and each of the candidates' careers. It's the make-or-break point. 

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