Democracy

1. In Iowa, the Hillary Clinton campaign actively worked to suppress the votes of Iowa students.
2. In New Hampshire, the Hillary Clinton campaign harassed “get-out-the-vote” workers at the polls to hinder their efforts.
3. In Nevada, the Hillary Clinton campaign’s supporters filed a lawsuit that aimed to suppress the vote of culinary union members.
4. In Nevada, the Hillary Clinton campaign shut the doors on caucus-goers 30 minutes earlier than the official rules stated. Caucus-goers were not allowed to participate.
5. The Clinton campaign announced that they would go after Barack Obama’s pledged Democratic delegates (the delegates he won in the primaries and caucuses) if the nomination went to the convention. In other words, if you voted or caucused for Obama, your vote may not count. After public outrage, the Clinton campaign backtracked.
6. It is a sad day when America becomes dominated by two political families–the Bush family and the Clintons. America should be a democracy, not a dynasty.

Economic Concerns

1. In 1998, Hillary Clinton praised NAFTA, the bill President Bill Clinton signed into law. Now she opposes it. Barack Obama opposed it. NAFTA has been devastating to rural America.
2. Hillary Clinton has gone to other countries and proclaimed that “outsourcing will continue.” However, in front of American audiences she tempers this and talks about the problems with outsourcing American jobs. Why isn’t she saying the same things in both places?
3. Hillary Clinton misled an Iowa voter about her position on social security. The voter is still unsure where she stands.
4. Hillary Clinton argued that Americans who make over $97,000 per year are the middle-class.
5. The Washington Post gave Barack Obama an A- for his economic stimulus plan and gave Hillary Clinton a C+.

Electability

1. The polls consistently show that Barack Obama does better against John McCain than does Hillary Clinton.

The Environment

1. The League of Conservation Voters gave Barack Obama a higher score on his environmental voting record than all the other Democratic nominees.

Ethics and Lobbyists Reform

1. Barack Obama has a superior record to Hillary Clinton on confronting lobbyists and special interests.
2. Barack Obama does not take federal PAC or federal lobbyist funding for his Presidential campaign, while Hillary Clinton does. In fact, Hillary Clinton said, “Lobbyists represent real Americans.”
3. Barack Obama has released his personal income tax returns to the public for scrutiny, while Hillary Clinton has not.
4. Hillary Clinton uses more earmarks and pork spending than any other Democratic nominee or Republican nominee.
5. Barack Obama agreed to take public financing for the general election if the Republican nominee will do the same. Hillary Clinton has not agreed to this.
6. Barack Obama passed the toughest ethics reform legislation in the U.S. Senate since Watergate, while Hillary has not passed a bill yet of this magnitude.
7. The majority of Barack Obama’s campaign funding comes from small donors, while the majority of Clinton’s comes from large donors.
8. Barack Obama was the leader in revealing to the public all of his federal earmark requests, while Hillary Clinton was not.

Experience

1. Barack Obama has both sufficient experience and a record of good judgment.
2. Barack Obama will have held elected office for 12 years before becoming President. Hillary Clinton will only have held office for 8 years.
3. While Clinton claims experience from her husband’s presidency, she will not release her White House papers to let us know specifically what that experience is.
4. She cited her experience as the reason she voted to go to Iraq, so that nullified her experience argument.
5. Even Bill Clinton said when people criticized him for being inexperienced in the 1990s that, “The same old experience is not relevant.”
6. Barack Obama will be older than Bill Clinton, Teddy Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy were before they took the presidency. He can’t help that he takes care of himself and ages well.
7. As John Kerry argues, Barack Obama has more legislative experience than either Hillary Clinton or John Edwards.
8. Barack Obama has passed more progressive legislation in his lifetime than Hillary Clinton. As an Illinois Senator he passed over 200 of the bills he wrote. These bills include:
   1. A bill that expanded healthcare to over 100,000 people in Illinois.
   2. A bill that set up community health centers to serve underserved populations.
   3. A bill that provided the earned income tax credit to thousands of Illinois families.
   4. A bill that reformed the death penalty that had sent innocent people to death row
   5. A bill that banned gifts and meals from lobbyists.
   6. And much more.
9. While Hillary Clinton has spent more time in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama has gotten more substantive legislation that affects the American people passed while he’s been there. Many of Clinton’s bills were about naming post offices and buildings. However, Obama’s legislation includes:
   1. A bill with Senator Richard Lugar which bans the development of nuclear weapons.
   2. A bill that created a public database where average Americans can see how the government is spending their money.
   3. A bill that provided important assistance to address the situation in the Congo.
   4. A bill that Nancy Pelosi calls “one of the toughest ethics reform” bills in this history of the Congress.