Obama has had much positive press this week. In addition, Obama has made significant promises to the American people. First, this week individuals have claimed that Republican Giuliani’s daughter supports Obama after she joined an Obama Facebook group. Furthermore, Obama has planned a concert fundraiser in Los Angeles, receiving the support of the Goo Goo Dolls, as well as many young Hollywood stars including Jessica Biel and Brian Greenberg. In addition, in Iowa Obama announced his plan for national service. Obama promises that the government will allow for more community and national service opportunities. Obama says as President he will add 250,000 people to the AmeriCorps, as well as double the amount of individuals serving in the Peace Corps; he will implement a Classroom Corps, an Energy Corps, an expand service learning in middle and high schools nationwide. Individuals including Congressmen, a governor, and presidents of various organizations have praised Obama’s plan. Furthermore, this week Obama learned of a list by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid that details 128 nursing homes that have ignored safety and health regulations, as well as caused harm to their residents. Obama has urged the agency to quickly publish the full list of these homes to the public. Lastly, Obama helped introduced the Credit Card Safety Star Act of 2007 to give consumers the knowledge to understand complicated credit card agreements.
However, as Obama is moving up in the polls especially in Iowa, he is receiving much criticism from other Democratic candidates (especially Clinton). For example, at a Democratic debate in Chicago, Obama claimed that if he received sufficient intelligence information, he would call the United States to action against Pakistani terrorists, provided that Pakistan’s leader was ignoring them. Clinton (with the support of Dodd and Biden) attacked Obama for his statement claiming: “I do not believe that people running for president should engage in hypotheticals. “You should not always say everything you think if you're running for president, because it can have consequences across the world." Furthermore, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton calls Obama to shut down his PAC, HOPEFUND. Clinton claims that HOPEFUND has helped Obama with his presidential bid and has dodged or violated FEC rules. Obama responded declaring he has not shut down the PAC because they "simply did not have the ability to get all the money out." In addition, Obama points out that his PAC has contributed to individuals endorsing Clinton. Moreover, Karl Rove, in a letter sent to Obama this week, gave Obama suggestions on how to beat Clinton; however, at the same time Rove criticized Obama as being “weak and ineffectual.”
On a more positive note, Obama’s campaign has begun broadcasting a new television spot demonstrating the importance of change in the Presidency. In addition, as Obama fiercely fights for the Democratic nomination, he has been gaining in the New Hampshire polls. While in October Clinton had 20% more support than Obama, now Clinton only leads by 7%. Another part of his strategy for winning the Democratic nomination is to urge Iowa students to caucus, which he did this past week.
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Has Obama responded yet to the recent firing of a Clinton campaign volunteer? Apparently someone with the Clinton campaign circulated an email claiming that Obama is still a muslim and secretly wants to destroy America if he becomes president. However, the volunteer was fired immediately after the email got out. I guess Hillary Clinton wanted to be the only cadidate planning to destroy the United States when elected.
with Obama gaining so much support the other candidates are now coming after him in a way that they hadn't been before. it'll be interesting to see within the next few weeks if their attacks on him influence his support in the polls significantly or if he really has all of those supporters
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