Obama...how to stay positive, while pointing out the negative

It seems Obama will need to strike back at least some on Senator Clinton...but he can't become too negative, nor let his campaign become Clinton's style of campaign.

So what should he do? And how much and how hard?

Well one thing he can and should do...is after the jump....

Senator Clinton had a recent argument that needs to me jumped on hard...from many angles...but especially this one...

She said the she has experience, McCain has experience and Obama has a speech from 2002. He needs to, obviously, point up that he has as much experience as she does by talking about what he has done and pointing out how she claims things that she doesn't quite deserve the credit for. But what he also needs to do is this:

"Senator Clinton has claimed that she has experience. She has even, strangely enough, built up Senator McCain's experience. And I guess Washington DC insider experience does help some when you are a Senator. But she then claims that all I have is a speech from 2002."

"Now we could sit here and argue about McCain's 50 plus years of service or Hilary's 35 years of service or my 25 years of public service and try and decide which is more important: military service, Very Important, community service, Very Important, Washington DC work, yeah, also important, First Lady service...also kinda important."

"But what I really want to talk about is Hilary's mentioning of that speech I gave in 2002."

"I really wish she had listened to that speech back in 2002. I really wish she had read the NIE report back in 2002. Everything I said in that speech back in 2002, sadly, has come true. I truly wish it hadn't. But we went to war against a country that did not attack us, that did not have weapons of mass destruction and that was not a direct threat to our country. We went to war without a reason and without a plan."

"If Senator Clinton had listened to that speech I gave in 2002, if Senator Clinton had read the NIE report and had then decided not to support President Bush on his rush to war, many things would be different today."

"Perhaps if she had said "NO" to President Bush instead of "YES", we, as a nation, could have focused on getting the real group that attacked our great country on 9-11. If we had focused on Afghanistan instead of diverting our attention and resources to Iraq, we would not only have Bin Laden either in Jail or buried in a grave right now, but we would today have no troops in either Iraq on Afghanistan. We would not be spending what some say will be 3 trillion dollars on Iraq...3 Trillion dollars of American tax payer's money that could be used on roads and bridges or going back into their pockets...you know, real things that help and protect this country, not some war based on falsehoods and a President's desire to invade Iraq for who knows what reason..."

"If she had listened to that speech in 2002 and she had read the NIE report, perhaps we could have saved thousands of lives of our loved ones in the military. We perhaps could have saved hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives. We could have correctly gone after Bin Laden and not been distracted by Iraq. We could have not only kept our good standing across the world, but we could have built it up stronger."

"If Senator Clinton had only listened to that speech in 2002...but instead she listened to President Bush, she voted with President Bush, she, sadly, voted for war."

"I have more to offer this country than a speech made in 2002. At the same time, I stand behind that speech. I wish I had been wrong with that speech. But time has shown that everything I thought and feared would happen when we rushed to war against a country that did not attack us, that did not have weapons of mass destruction, that was not a direct threat to our country, well time has shown every word to be true."

"Senator Clinton could have listened to that speech from 2002. She could have read the NIE report. She could have voted against President Bush's War. Instead she voted for President Bush, she voted for War."

"Experience is important. Judgment is important. I do have the experience. 25 years of a combination of community and local and state and federal service. I also think I have the best judgment."

"This election isn't about just experience. It isn't just about judgment. This election surly isn't just about speeches. It is about all those things and more. We need experience, which we all have. But it is the judgment that we need too."

"We had Senator Clinton and Senator McCain voting for and supporting the rush to war in Iraq. We had the NIE report and my speech and other speeches in 2002 saying, "Wait, let's look at this before we rush in." I ask you to consider that and then decide. Decide if the rush to war was right, of if the rush to war was wrong. And then decide on the judgment of the three people running for President."

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