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January
5 Signature Moment?

Hillary Clinton's response to John Edwards already is on YouTube.

But Clinton also got in a signature line, aimed at Barack Obama. "Words are not action. And as beautifully presented and as passionately felt as they are, they are not action." Obama's response: "Words do inspire."

Clinton's "words are not action" reminded me a bit of Walter Mondale's 1984 line against Gary Hart --- "Where's the beef?" --- that  stopped Hart's unexpected rise in the polls. But unlike Hart, Obama was not rendered all but speechless.

Posted: Sat, January 05, 2008, 7:01 PM

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