Obama misrepresents Hillary's plan in mailer

kenstipe

3-27-2008 9:26 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3038c7d5-b75c-45ca-8dc5-e66edb5e0196/C3638C72-8C02-43B4-ACA4-3D0EE704A5BC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html" href="http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.factcheck.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html"><P><FONT size="3" face="Arial">An Obama mailer stretches the differences between the candidates on health care. Specifically:</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html"><UL>
    <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="3" face="Arial"><DIV>It touts measures included in Obama's plan to help low-income individuals buy insurance but fails to mention that Clinton would provide similar financial assistance.</DIV>
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    <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="3" face="Arial">It says Obama's plan would save </FONT><FONT size="3" face="Arial">the average family $2,500 per year </FONT><SPAN>–</SPAN><FONT size="3" face="Arial"> an estimate provided by experts at the campaign's request </FONT><SPAN>–</SPAN><FONT size="3" face="Arial"><DIV> but doesn't say that Clinton estimates hers will save $2,200 per year. </DIV>
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    <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><FONT size="3" face="Arial">It also neglects to point out that Clinton's plan isn't the only one that would have an enforcement mechanism for those who failed to purchase insurance. Obama's plan, which would require that children be insured, would need one as well, though it would affect fewer persons.</FONT></LI>
</UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html"> his campaign sent out a piece of direct mail that lacks a good amount of context and could mislead those who are not familiar with Clinton's plan.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C3638C72-8C02-43B4-ACA4-3D0EE704A5BC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

kenstipe says:

Didn't Obama recently express anger about Hillary doing this to him in a Texas debate?