In the article that I've quoted she literally does not mention Obama by name, but her implication is obvious and us Democrats are thrilled that she hasn't said a word about Obama in a week and is purely focused on McSame and Bush. This is from yesterday, and is more explicit:
RAPID CITY, South Dakota (CNN) - Hours after President Bush made an apparent swipe at Barack Obama's foreign policy in a speech to the Israeli Knesset, Hillary Clinton seemed to come to his defense. "President Bush's comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy," she told reporters in Rapid City, South Dakota Thursday. "This is the kind of statement that has no place in any presidential address and certainly to use an important moment like the 60th anniversary celebration of Israel to make a political point seems terribly misplaced; unfortunately, this is what we've come to expect from President Bush. "There is a very clear difference between Democrats and Republicans on foreign policy and that difference will be evident once we take back the White House.
"President Bush's comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially in light of his failures in foreign policy," she told reporters in Rapid City, South Dakota Thursday. "This is the kind of statement that has no place in any presidential address and certainly to use an important moment like the 60th anniversary celebration of Israel to make a political point seems terribly misplaced; unfortunately, this is what we've come to expect from President Bush.
"There is a very clear difference between Democrats and Republicans on foreign policy and that difference will be evident once we take back the White House.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200 8/05/16/clinton-defends-obama-after-appa rent-bush-swipe/
Hillary has been an extraordinary Democrat in defense of our nominee in the past 48 hours, and she deserves a ton of credit for that. It's obviously not easy to switch gears like this given how hard she's fought for this. It's the reality of any presidential primary, but she's handled this with grace, and she deserves a ton of credit.
but I don't see this as any defense of Obama. She did not mention the issue with the mideast comments of bush, obama and McCain. And she mentioned nothing about Obama and his economic message, which is actually weaker than hers.
While her comments are good, not everything she says is in relation to Obama. Of course democrats are different than republicans. That doesn't mean she's plugging OBAMA as different from republicans. You can chose Clinton or Obama--either one as democrats will be different than bush.
You may be happy she didn't mention him, but I don't think she cares about him right now, nor does she need to. She is her own candidate in her own right.
She doesn't need to say anything about him---not because she's giving in--but because she doesn't have to.
You're absolutely entitled to take from this whatever you'd like.
Of course he does. Every nominee does. That's the point.
If you don't think that nominees require strong, vocal advocates, then you haven't experienced an election before. Every candidate from city council to President needs a strong cadre of defenders.
I think you're reading way too much into this. I'm a Democrat, and I'm proud of Hillary for proving to be a good Democrat. I don't know how this statement has possibly become remotely debatable on MyDD. This was MyDD.
So why the misleading title then if you are not trying to ... mislead?
