Clinton unveils a new refrain: "That's not change"

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NASHUA -- Searching today for a criticism or attack or revelation that would halt Barack Obama's post-Iowa momentum, Hillary Clinton levied a serious of charges against the Illinois senator to counter perceptions that he's the change candidate.

During a rally at a local high school, Clinton unveiled a new refrain: "That's not change," she chanted, as she noted Obama's 2002 speech against the Iraq war and then his subsequent votes as senator to fund the war. Without naming him, she also referenced Obama's vote for legislation that she described as "Dick Cheney's energy bill."

Clinton said it's one thing to "campaign in poetry, but you govern in prose."

She also noted John Edwards' vote for the Patriot Act, without naming him, intoning again, "That's not change."

Meanwhile, Obama in Derry today took a jab at Clinton's claim that he was offering "false hope."

"You know, I've been teased, even derided lately for talking hope," he said. " Last night in the debate one of my opponents said that you know, 'you need to stop offering the American (sic) false hopes about what can get done. You need a reality check.' You remember that?"

He said that often in American history, the country has relied on hope to get through some of his greatest challenges -- as he has in his life.

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Clinton and Obama are playing to packed houses, with voters forced at times to park blocks for rally venues and then trudge through snow to see the candidates.

This evening brought tough news for the Clinton camp, with two new polls showing Obama gaining ground here. A USA Today/Gallup survey released tonight shows Obama with a 13-point lead.

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/01/clinton_hits_ob.html

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. I think this counts as an example of false hope

S. 2433, The Global Poverty Act of 2007

Sounds great, don't it? Well, find something specific in it ... you won't.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2433:

[karynnj]

13. I think it is a bill that would put the Senate (and hopefully the US)

behind the UN millennium goals. It was introduced last month - it has not been debated, sent to committee or anything yet. It is something the US should be behind and this is a call from the Senate for the executive branch to submit a plan. it might indicate what he would do with the executive branch - the US should be participating.

[billbuckhead]

2. "Belief is the enemy of truth"

All this belief thing puts the Obama campaign into the cult camp. At some point all this Kool-aid is going to bring on an extraordinary hangover.

[Sulawesi]

6. No, faith is...

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. A quote from one of the best movies of recent times......

Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

[tridim]

4. All I know is I'm getting sick of the word "change" already

Every candidate is using it since Iowa, Republican and Democrat. The word has lost all meaning.

Only two candidates really mean it when they say it.

[Cha]

10. I love Change and I can't wait.

I've been waiting along with millions of others in this country and across the world 8 years for fucking change.

[tridim]

11. Of course we all want it

I just don't want the change that Mittens and The Huckster are promising every five minutes.

[Cha]

12. I don't listen to those

chickenshithawks.

[Armstead]

5. Hillary is going for the Scorched Earth Strategy

"If I can't have it, nobody can have it."

[Sulawesi]

7. Another positive message to rally behind...

[annie1]

8. Right on

[Cha]

9. hillary=disingenous bullshit.

No surprises coming from her..how's that mark penn workin' out for ya, hillary, ya yak.