Obama = Bush

Hillary Clinton goes after Barack Obama again on the issue of specifics:

ABC News' Eloise Harper reports: Speaking in Eugene, Ore., Sen. Hillary Clinton went further than she has before drawing a comparison between Sen. Barack Obama and President Bush, saying he gave a lot of "speeches" too, but lacked "specifics."

"Some of you might may remember that President Bush in 2000 ran as a compassionate conservative. It sounded great. Who could argue with that?" she said. "I never knew what it meant. He sure didn’t enlighten us about what it meant. But he gave a lot of speeches about how he was going to be a compassionate conservative. Well, because we didn’t have the specifics to tie him down because we didn’t say 'What exactly does that mean?' It turns out he was neither compassionate nor conservative. He was uncompassionate and radical."

As I've said ad nauseam this idea that Obama doesn't have specific policy proposals is BS. But Clinton's now moved on to a new form of BS about George W. Bush. The point about Bush and policy details isn't that he was vague in 2000 it's that when you looked up his policy proposals you could see that they were really, really, really right-wing. There is, by contrast, nothing in Obama's policy proposals that hints at secret rightwingery. Instead, you'll find few major policy differences between Clinton and Obama, though you will find that Obama's health care plan is less far-reaching than Clinton's. Even on this front, however, Obama and Clinton are light-years closer to each other than either is to Bush or McCain.