One year to go in US presidential race

[Omaha Steve]

ABC video here: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=4861362&ch=4226716&src=news

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071104/pl_afp/usvote20081year_071104210430

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A year to the day before Americans elect their 44th president, sniping against Democratic favorite Hillary Clinton is intensifying, while Republicans continue to battle over their party's soul.

"The Republican and Democratic Parties are going through internal battles over their very identity, even as the races for their presidential nominations intensify," The New York Times said Sunday at the one-year-to-go mark in what is regarded as the most open US leadership contest in decades.

Candidates made little mention of the symbolic one-year point before a Republican and a Democratic face off on November 4, 2008. But the intense campaign rhetoric of past months showed no let-up.

Second-place Democratic hopeful Barack Obama kept up his offensive against Clinton on several issues, in a Newsweek magazine interview released Sunday.

He blasted what he considered failures in her husband's presidency and renewed criticism that she contradicted herself on an immigration issue. Her campaign on Saturday accused him of going on the attack because he was down in the polls.

Democrat John Edwards, running a close third behind Clinton and Obama in polls in the early nomination voting state of Iowa, also kept up attacks on the former first lady, branding her part of a "corrupt system" of Washington politics, in comments to ABC News.

FULL story at link.

[pscot]

1. A year!

How fucking depressing is that.We need change now, if not yesterday.

[MiniMe]

2. I don't know if I can take another year of this