Barack Obama - In Philadelphia, On Clinton

“She’s (Clinton) taken different positions at different times on issues as fundamental as trade, or even the war, to suit the politics of the moment,” Obama told the crowd Saturday in Wynnewood, Pa. “And when she gets caught at it, the notion is, well, you know what, that’s just politics. That’s how it works in Washington. You can say one thing here and say another thing there.”
“Senator Clinton’s essential argument in this campaign is you can’t change how the game is played in Washington. Her basic argument is that the slash-and-burn, say-anything, do-anything special interest-driven politics is how it works. … Senator Clinton has internalized a lot of the strategies, the tactics, that have made Washington such a miserable place.”
From FOX News

'This is a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war. Our planet is in peril. Our economy is in recession…. [M]ost of all, we’ve lost faith that our leaders can or will do anything about this; we don’t believe that anyone in Washington is listening to us, or standing up for us, or fighting for us.
That’s why this election is our chance to declare our independence from the broken politics of Washington, the cynical politics that puts spin ahead of solutions and the special interests ahead of our interests; the politics that’s all about tearing each other down when what we need is to lift this country up. "

From the New York Times