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New Hillary Mailer: "American Families Can't Afford Barack Obama"

By Greg Sargent - February 29, 2008, 3:46PM
Hillary drops a mailer in Ohio -- forwarded to us by a reader -- that attacks Obama on energy.

In a state where Hillary is working hard to stave off Obama's inroads among her working class base, and arguing that she's the true enemy of the special interests, the mailer references the contributions he's taken from "energy company employees" and warns: "American families can't afford Barack Obama."

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The Obama campaign points to this chart over at OpenSecrets.org comparing energy industry donations to the candidates and emails over this response:

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From factcheck.org:

In closing, we'd just note that Clinton is no innocent on sending out misleading mailers. We reported on Feb. 6 that a mailing by her campaign contained a "big distortion" of Obama's position on Social Security taxes and falsely implied that he had "no plan" to address mortgage foreclosures. It also attacked him for voting for a "Dick Cheney" energy bill that gave "huge tax breaks to oil companies," when in fact the bill gave a net tax increase to oil companies.

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