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Obama campaign responds to Clinton attack
Barack Obama’s campaign responded on Saturday, Feb. 23 to charges Hillary Clinton made in Cincinnati earlier in the day that Obama was sending out misleading attacks on Clinton’s stance on NAFTA and her plan for universal health care.
Bill Burton, Obama’s press secretary, said:
“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.
“We look forward to having a debate this Tuesday on the facts, and the facts are that Senator Clinton was a supporter of NAFTA and the China permanent trade treaties until this campaign began.”
Obama, campaigning in Columbus, did not mention NAFTA but criticized Clinton’s health care plan because it mandates that everyone acquire coverage.
“The main difference between us is that Senator Clinton includes a mandate, which means she’d have the government force you to buy health insurance, and she said she’d consider going after your wages if you don’t.
” I disagree with that approach. I believe that the reason Americans don’t have health care isn’t because no one’s forced them to buy it. It’s because no one’s made it affordable, and that’s why my plan does more to cut costs than any other that been offered in this race,” Obama said at a panel discussion at the Ohio State University Medical Center.
Obama and Clinton are scheduled to debate in Cleveland on Tuesday night.
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