“Enough with the speeches and the big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove’s play book. This is wrong and every Democrat should be outraged,” Clinton told reporters Saturday after a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“So shame on you Barack Obama. It is time you ran a campaign consistent with your messages in public. That’s what I expect from you. Meet me in Ohio and let’s have a debate about your tactics and your behavior in this campaign,” Clinton said. The two are set for a debate Tuesday in Cleveland.
Obama’s campaign responded quickly, issuing a statement standing by both pieces of campaign literature.
“Everything in those mailers is completely accurate, unlike the discredited attacks from Hillary Clinton’s negative campaign that have been rejected in South Carolina, Wisconsin and across America,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said in a prepared release.
Otherwise known as NAFTA, the agreement aimed at encouraging more trade among Mexico, the United States and Canada was signed early in Bill Clinton’s presidency but since has become a major point of criticism by labor groups concerned with the loss of U.S. jobs to foreign competitors.
One of the mailers Obama sent shows a locked fence gate, with a “Closed” sign over what ostensibly is a factory. The mailer says: “Hillary Clinton believed NAFTA was a ‘boon’ to our economy. See inside …”
Visibly angered, Clinton waved a copy of the mailers at the Cincinnati press conference, saying one of her supporters had just given them to her. The mailers have been in circulation for several days.
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