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Hillary Says Obama's Economic Plan Mirrors Hers but Lacks Specifics

By Jeralyn

I'm on Hillary Clinton's media conference call right now. The theme was her new economic stimulus plan vs. the one Barack Obama announced today.

Shorter version: Obama's a copycat. One week ago, Hillary proposed a $30 billion second stimulus plan. Today he introduced a $30 billion second stimulus plan. If he can't come up with his own proposals on the campaign trail, how will he do it as president?

Her plans are specific proposals, his are a statement of principles. (More here.)

They accused Obama's campaign of negative personal and character attacks on Hillary Clinton and of savaging her in personal terms on his daily campaign calls.

Polls show Obama isn't connecting with voters on the economy so he's now offering ideas, but they are ideas she proposed a week ago. That's not leadership, that's followership.

Reporter question about the Anti-Italian slur by Wright in Trumpet Magazine: They don't know anything about it. A reporter describes it. "Comments like that have no place in the public discourse."

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Question about tax returns: She will release all 2000 to 2006 tax returns within the week. Will it include schedules? Campaign says they are not conversant with distinctions between returns and schedules so can't answer. Point out that 20 years of Clinton tax returns and annual disclosure forms while Hillary has been a Senator is already in public domain.

Update from the AP on Obama's plan:

While he laid out a half-dozen principles for closer scrutiny of the financial markets, he offered no specifics, such as which agencies should be reorganized or exactly how the government should go about peering over the shoulders of bank executives.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on March 27, 2008 (boomark / email).