Senator Casey: Clinton Arguments Against Obama Getting "Really Ridiculous"

[babylonsister]

Senator Casey: Clinton Arguments Against Obama Getting "Really Ridiculous"

April 10, 2008 4:46 PM

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The mild-mannered Casey showed a little fire after I asked him about Rendell’s argument that Clinton had been thoroughly vetted and Obama has not –Rendell's calculation being that there’s only 10% unknown about Clinton and 50% unknown about Obama.

"I think the other side needs to start coming up with better arguments about how Obama can’t win," Casey said. " Some of these arguments are beginning to get really ridiculous because this should be a campaign about why their ideas are better."

Taking aim at Rendell’s "vetting" argument, Casey said "the idea that everybody in the country has everything they need to know about one candidate and 50% about Obama is a mystery, because to make that argument, and to get that argument past the hysterical laughter test is to assert that the national media has a conspiracy to keep Sen. Obama’s record under wraps until the Republicans get a hold of it and hit him over the head with it. It’s a ridiculous argument. Both of these candidates have been vetted for 18 months now, and they’ll be vetted even more. So I think whoever is nominated, they’re both going to be vetted."

Casey said he decided to publicly endorse in March after he decided whom he'll vote for in the state's April 22 primary.

"When a primary of this dimension is taking place in your state and you are a decided voter and you are an elected official who has run for state-wide office a number of times," Casey said, "I thought it was important to weigh in."

"I think he can best unite the country and the world," he said of Obama. "Both challenges are going to be before the next president."

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/senator-casey-c.html

[Coexist]

1. I think he's coming up on Hardball

interesting that Russert was on - perhaps because of the Matthews piece coming up on Sunday?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13matthews-t.html?_r=2&ref=politics&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Coexist]

5. he's on now!

[BumRushDaShow]

2. K&R

Casey has been able to thus far campaign without getting rattled and he comes across as pretty secure, which give me some confidence. :thumbsup:

[babylonsister]

7. His temperment seems similar to Obama's, both in stark contrast

to the other two candidates.

[AtomicKitten]

3. Her claim that they should only count votes while both in the Senate was particularly lame.

She is desperate to cover her IWR vote like kitty poo in a litter box, but her YES vote on the IWR stands in stark contrast to Obama's clear, out loud opposition to the war in 2002. Several TV talking head pundits hit on this particularly lame line of attack, as it should be. This kind of bullshit subterfuge is becoming exhausting. Maybe that's her strategy: To wear the electorate out like a 2-year-old running screaming around a restaurant. Oy.

[babylonsister]

6. Yes, trying to move those goal posts whenever possible. It's amazing

to me that she doesn't think we'd notice. I think she should be embarrassed, but apparently that's not an emotion she has any problem with. Hell, remember the Clinton camp floating the electoral college totals? Oye!

[Jane Austin]

12. Remember?

They're still doing it!

I saw somebody float that one just yesterday.

[ORDem]

14. Absolutely laughable! Does that mean we can discount now 28 years of

her so-called "experience" since she's only been in the Senate for 7 years?

:eyes:

[Zachstar]

4. I hope this race ends soon. Things are getting silly!

[DemGa]

8. The very argument made by the Obama campaign

in this slanderous BO campaign memo which repeatedly smears Clinton as a liar:

FULLY VETTED?

Clinton Claims To Be Fully Vetted But Does Not Release Tax Returns And Cites Presidential Privilege On Information Related To Her White House Years, Drawing Criticism Even From Allies. Clinton’s “gates-drawn stance raised concerns that shadow her presidential bid today — that she reacts with a siege mentality under pressure, retreating behind a restrictive wall of presidential and attorney privilege. ‘There’s no question that her first instinct was to protect herself and the president,’ said former Clinton chief of staff Leon E. Panetta.” Roger Simon wrote,

http://thepage.time.com/obama-camp-memo-on-clinton-misleading-voters/

[Connie_Corleone]

9. I think it's proven that Hillary is indeed a liar.

Tuzla?

[DemGa]

10. It's a smear campaign tactic -- as low as they come

They used the exact same smear on Al Gore in 2000 -- it was a Dem that behind that it time too. It's character assassination.

http://ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/columns/column.php?id=228

[johnnydrama]

13. so she did land during sniper fire

in Bosnia.

Good to know.

[kwenu]

11. Getting really ridiculous? They've been ridiculous for weeks.

[Andrew99]

15. Casey did not support Clinton's candidacy in 1992

Just for the record. It shows how good of a Democrat he is.

[karynnj]

16. That was his dad, not him

His dad actually was a solid Democrat, who simply did not approve of Clinton.

[madrchsod]

17. rezko rezko rezko rezko rezko rezko rezko

i`m running up the rezko spike on the internet...maybe it will make it to google first page!

by the way the rezko trial could be in trouble because the key witness was going through hundreds of thousand of dollars worth of drugs and gifts during the time he was wearing a wire...

we know everything there is to know about barack...

[jackson_dem]

18. Casey: let me suck up to "progressives" by shilling for O so they get off my case

[Scurrilous]

19. K & R

:thumbsup:

[barb162]

20. Casey strikes me as not knowing what he's talking about.

[barb162]

21. Casey' s Arguments Against Clinton Getting "Really Ridiculous"

Really. He should zip it up already.

[IndianaGreen]

22. Casey: "(Obama) can best unite the country and the world."

I fully agree!

Two good things about Obama winning the nomination: No more Clintonian psychodrama on TV, and no more Ed Rendell!

[IsItJustMe]

23. K&R