Clinton to Obama: I Showed You My Records, Now Show Me Yours

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After more than 11,000 pages of Hillary Clinton’s schedules as first lady were released by the National Archives Wednesday, the Clinton campaign called on Barack Obama to release in full his records as an Illinois state senator.

“11,000 pages of the former first lady’s schedules are now part of the public record and I believe that is approximately 11,000 more documents than the Obama campaign has released up until this point relating to any part of his service especially as a state senator,” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a statement.

The Clinton records, released on CDs and posted on the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Web site, showed that in the early days of the Clinton administration, then-first lady Hillary Clinton held several meetings on health care with Cabinet secretaries and staff. She was also involved in helping her husband win congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal she now criticizes and says she would try to change.

Wolfson called on Obama Wednesday to specifically release memos and letters that may relate to indicted Chicago businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko, who used to be a prominent fundraiser for Obama.

“There is much that Senator Obama can do on the subject of disclosure if he chooses to make this an issue as he has. I think in many respects he has gotten a free ride on this but there is a voluminous amount of information that presumably should be available relating to his tenure in the state Senate that he could release and make available at any time since he thinks that this is so important. I would again call on him to do so,” Wolfson said.

As Clinton’s campaign touted the records’ release as an example of her commitment to disclosure, Obama spent the day in North Carolina Wednesday hitting Clinton for her Iraq war vote, suggesting only he can be trusted to end the war.

The National Archives in Washington and former President Clinton’s presidential library in Arkansas jointly released Clinton’s first lady schedules after months of pressure from critics who say the Clintons were delaying the disclosure.

In all, 11,046 pages have been made available. Nearly 4,800 pages have parts blacked out. Archivists said that’s to protect the privacy of third parties. Schedules for more than 30 days of activities were not included in this release.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

40 Responses to “Clinton to Obama: I Showed You My Records, Now Show Me Yours”

Comment by BillK

Obama where is your records. Where are your 20 years of taxes.

 
Comment by helena

I am student and have watched both campains. At this time, No free ride for Obama H Barack. He should release all docu he has experienced as senator.

 
Comment by naz

lets not have a question as a answer and be third parties,lets no all & then ask obama & all in the rat race

 
Comment by LEW

Who cares about her records or Sen. Obama’s records, his speech last night put the final nail in the casket for the Clinton’s. But for you die-hards keep hoping for something that is not going to happen this year. But I’m probably too educated for you individuals who can’t see that the end has come for the Clinton gang!

 
Comment by Jay

Clinton didn’t voluntarily release the records. A lawsuit had to ensue for that to happen. Geeeez, now she is even taking credit for releasing them. She won’t even admit that pushing congress on NAFTA was a mistake. Talk about political double talk. The good part of how Obama has been under pressure lately, and his reaction to everything clearly shows he can handle everything thrown at him, as well as admitting to being human and making mistakes. Mrs. Clinton on the other hand, is a completely status quo story. Wake up. Obama at least has some loyalty, where Mrs. Rodham-Clinton will even fire someone who she claims to be a good friend. Huh. If she were to whine her way into the WH, it will be a rerun of the Bush administration where key positions will be either bailing on her, or she will get rid of them because she doesn’t have good judgment or foresight.

 
Comment by Jack

This is like you show yours and I will show you mine.

 
Comment by Ima

Hillarys records that were released prove she has no experience to take the 3:00 am call, she was only a First Lady. Where is her back up that she has all this experience? The only experience she has is lying, stealing, and covering up her and Bill’s messes, she is very good at that.

 
Comment by Mary

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Obama, show the American your records !!! No more speechmaking. Get Real !
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Comment by Latisha

I’m sure he will do the same but all her records proved is that she has just as little experience than he does. It’s up to the people to decide who will be the best Chief of Staff. What she needs to do is jump off of her husbands coat tail and really own up to what she’s done which isn’t much going to resturants and award ceromonies doesn’t qualify as big decision making

 
Comment by ObamaFan

For the record, Obama has released his tax returns. He has nothing to hide. Where are HRC’s??

The request for Clinton’s schedule was not initiated by Obama’s campaign, but by a seperate organization altogether. But of course Obama supported it…she claims to have so much experience but the schedules show that she did lunch with “prominent ladies”…she did not form public policy!

Nonetheless, I’m sure Obama would be happy to release his schedules as Senator. Again…nothing to hide.

 
Comment by Fay

How about she release her tax returns first! If anyone has some questions to answer regarding the company they keep it’s definitely this crazy corrupt lady. Oops, I better be quiet before an HRC fan goes psycho on me!

 
Comment by DM

I would like to know how Obama can afford a $1.6 million home if his wife makes around $300,000 and he as as a Senator must make less. Perhaps he should share with rest of the nation his financial approach as it is quite impressive!

 
Comment by Ingrid

First -We pay our taxes, why can’t Hillary show us her returns? If she expects us to even consider her for president she owes us that.

Second- this has got to be the most racially charged with hate news website - EVER!!!!!!! But what do we expect - it’s FOX. In kindergarten we learned that a fox was sly. All I need to know about FOX was taught in kindergarten.

 
Comment by James

all you Obama supporters are so blind and stupid ..
You know what his record consists of .. voting present over 100 times … consistently voting to raise funding for the war …
and out right lying in every speech he has ever given..
did you watch the debate in nevada .. he couldn’t even keep it straight then .. he said he was all for yucca mountain and then 2 mins later said he never supprted and never would ..lol he is a lying idiot..
And now he is doing the same thing about the war its funny how he never supported it yet he keeps voting to raise funding for it …

 
Comment by J Bates

Correction, Obama has only released his 2006 tax records. Lets see the rest of them

 
Comment by Ana Lucia

NICE TRY HILLARY! FIRST YOU HAVE TO RELEASE YOUR TAX RETURN.
By the way reading your records proves that you have no experience.
I think we should educate people, since educated people vote Obama.
Have a great day!
Ana Lucia

 
Comment by piper

He won’t release a thing he knows he has too much hide, I can only imagine what other lies he is going to try and justify. This man is a disgrace and a racist, he had me fooled.

 
Comment by S Perdun

How lucky can we get, HRC by way of her records has as much experience a BHO…..little to none.
I wonder how much of a racist BHO really is and how clueless HRC while Monica was doing her thing in the WH. What a choice..WHERE is Alfred E. Newman.

 
Comment by andy

Obama,

Show your travel records, your meetings and with whom, your tax returns for 20 years

Obama, your all talk

 
Comment by Ana Lucia

According to some of the documents released, she took a bunch of kids on a hill with the former PM’s wife and released balloons. Balloons? What the hell is she going to do if a crisis comes to America’s shores? Open a lemonade stand?

Give me a break.

 
Comment by Jacob

And Hillary has released her tax records for what year?

Seriously, how does HRC expect these records, which have been extensively censored (”private meetings, etc), to support her claims of loads of foreign policy experience?

 
Comment by Jay

I wonder how much confidence troops and the Republicans have in John McCain being Commander in Chief when he runs around the middle east saying that Iran is training Al Qaida?

I mean seriously. That is a major gaffe - the man should have been more aware than that - where has he been the last 5 years? Shiite Iran training Sunni Qaida? Yeah right. All the world has been listening to Bush making repeated charges of Iran enabling Shiite Militants like the Mahdi Army - and we all know that the Iraq Government put in place by America were largely returned Shiite exiles from Iran, and the feared ‘death squad’ group the Badr Brigade were also a shiite militant army (although, unlike the Mahdi Army, bedfellows with the Americans).

Making unfounded and ignorant statements like Iran is training Qaida is just as bad as saber rattling at Iran about their increased influence over Iraq after you were the ones who put people in control of the Iraq Government who had been living in Iran for decades - Duh oh!

I can tell you that would not have done very well to impress the Middle Eastern people about McCain being President. In fact, that is just plain and downright scary.

 
Comment by CarolineGerhardt

She didn’t release her tax records. She hasn’t presented any new information to the public, she has just feigned the appearance of not being secretive. Obama of late has been under very acute scrutiny from all sides, and has maintained a respectable disposition, even amongst having to defend himself against charges of both being a racist, and having an advantage by being a mulatto with an Islamic name. Seriously! He’s only where he is because he’s a black man with a name that alludes to the fallen Iraqi dictator, and of striking similarity to a terrorist leader’s?
Let that black preacher give sermons where he angrily points out that nearly all the leaders of this country, and nearly all of the wealthiest people are of European ancestry. Isn’t that obvious? Isn’t it true that this country has employed the largest population of enslaved foreigners ever seen on the planet (correct me if I’m wrong)?
Now we have an intelligent, articulate man, who also happens to be of a diverse ethnicity, trying to run a campaign for President without relying purely on tearing his opponents down, and people jump at the opportunity to paint him a racist by association. If he’s not a racist, then he’s a muslim. He’s not tried and true like McCain and Clinton.
Let’s all tear this man down for trying to keep his campaign positive, let’s elect another short-tempered white person, whose well-connected in Washington DC, who’ll give cynical speeches about ‘hard-work’, because that’s something we’re used to.

 
Comment by MLB

As for his 1.6 million dollar home, he did receive a hefty amount for his books. He has made it clear that he used that money to purchase a home and settle student loan debt. And to James… It is clear that you do not listen with both ears. Some people have what is called selective hearing, and for those individuals I feel bad. If you actually listen to everything being said, you will get a clear picture of the truth… it is not lies Obama speaks of. It is sad that our country is so tied up in a kill each other mentality when it comes to politics. Obama is the first person in my lifetime that has shown some maturity, professionalism, and sensibility when it comes to these crazy political games politicians and the media love to play. People have been saying speeches don’t matter, words are nothing, where’s the action. Before you can act you have to speak. Those that don’t take the time to convey what will happen and act with out speaking are selfish, naive, and insane. When becoming the CEO of our country that person needs to have the ability to relate to EVERYONE, also have the ability to articulate, captivate and encourage the nation to become more involved. I am sure once Obama is president that all of the skeptics out there will be amazed on how this one man could actually do some good FOR EVERYONE.

 
Comment by jean

stop them nasty comments Obama will win this election down hilary

 
Comment by saleanna

First of all to answer the person aboves question as to how Obama could afford such an expensive house is because Rexko helped him out by letting Obama get it for 300,000.00 less than what it went for and Obama couldn’t afford the property adjacent to the house he wanted to buy that was a package deal so Mrs. Rezko bought the property the same day that Obama bought the house and then a month later sold Obama back the property for 100,000.00 less than she paid for it….
Next I think Obamas campaign is going negative.. He is a lier… First of all he lied about the question if he smoked.. secondly he lied about Rezko’s contributions of first 125,000.00 for his campaign and then it was 250,000.00… Then he wasn’t there in the church when Rev. Wright was preaching all this racial garbage and Obama’s words were if he was there he would have got up and walked out… Then when he made his speech on national television he stated he was there but he didn’t agree with him even though the reporter that was right in back of him see him nodding his head yes in agreement with Rev. Wrights racial sermon. What I question in Obama is his integrity. How can we believe him when in the short time he has run for president he has lied time and time again.. People need to wake up and realize that Obama’s speeches of hope and change are just words and mean nothing to him but more lies…

 
Comment by Isabella

Ok ,Obama lets see your past 20 years.Not just 2007.I just listen to Al Sharpton ,wow their is something wrong with that man,he couldn’t tell the truth if it hit him in the face,and how he is so good to turn the table the other way.<<<>>>.

 
Comment by Mark Wright

Obama was able to afford that expensive house because he wrote a #1 best-selling book.

Weeks ago he talked about his state Senate records and said that he had a tiny staff and they didn’t keep records of his schedules. Clinton is fishing for something that doesn’t exist.

Voting present in the Illinois state legislature is a standard procedure and has nothing to do with dodging issues. Illinois gives their legislators an opportunity to cast a vote when neither Yes nor No fits. It’s a wise way to run things. Have you ever had to make a choice between two bad choices? Wouldn’t it be great to have the opportunity to vote for neither? If the U.S. Senate allowed its members to vote ‘present’ we might have less bad legislation.

And he flipped on Yucca mountain? Go back and read the transcripts. The first thing he said about the subject was, and I quote: “I will end the notion of Yucca Mountain”. The last thing he said a few minutes later was “despite the fact that my state has more nuclear power plants than any other state in the country, I’ve never supported Yucca Mountain. So I just want to make that clear.”

James, you need to pay more attention and listen a little more clearly.

 
Comment by Lilly

Has Hillary Finally released her2007 tax returns now that her experience in the White House shows it consisted more of “busy work”, lying, hiding documents and stealing furniture than the global peace making she fabricates? Do the records include the IRS and investigators she hired to ruin Bill’s sexual harrassment accusers? Now that Karl Rove appears to be her latest hit man, it’s clear she intends to steal the nomination. Very Bush-like.

 
Comment by Bo

Don’t you wish we had an honest choice, either Democrat or Republican to vote for who would care about the public interest. Alas, tis not to be, until we quit following the leader over the cliff, we get what we deserve. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

 
Comment by Bystander

Props to all of you for engaging in public dialogue. As a relic from the 60s I envy you all having these on-line forums to comment on the events of the day. However, I am always surprised when someone asks a question for which the answer has been reported by the news several times on several sites. To DM: The Obamas were able to afford their Chicago home because of proceeds from a book deal. To some of you others: do you pride yourselves on not being able to spell?

 
Comment by Scott C

The call for Clinton’s tax returns has a reason behind it.

She donated 5 million to her own campaign and we should see where that money came from… We need campaign finance transparency.

We ask for her schedule because she claims to have garnered experience that would qualify her as president because she was married to one.

I am sure if Obama needs to he will release the information asked of him as he has been upfront about stuff like this from day one. Though there is no actual REASON you need the info from him like with Clinton.

Clinton has been on record saying she thinks giving immigrants driver’s licenses makes sense and that it doesn’t make sense within a two minute response.

Clinton has said that no strategy can be taken off the table INCLUDING nuclear weapons then later say we can’t take anything off the table EXCEPT nuclear weapons.

Clinton gave authority to wage war in Iraq and no opposes it.

How do we know anything she stands for now will be what she stands for later if she is elected?

Obama has answered the question of why he funds the war before, you are ignoring his response to give validity to your feeble point.

The war was started and there was no way to stop the war right then, so what are we to do, keep our kids in Iraq without the supplies they need to survive.

Obama has always stood by our soldiers, his stance is that we should be there but if we have to be he is going to make sure our soldiers have EVERYTHING they need to stay alive.

Are you saying Clinton doesn’t share that viewpoint?

 
Comment by Ant

I showed you redacted mr records, now redacted show me yours. She is a joke and to believe this site has any baanced reporting is a joke too. McCain has no clue on a war he stands behind and Hillary will say or do anything to get her way. And for Bill Clinton to say that us wealthy millionares are voting for Obama shows that he s thrown truth out of the window. Also, the records show that she WAS IN THE HOUSE when Bil was being serviced by Monica. And we’re supposed to let her take care of our house?

 
Comment by Rae

If only educated people vote for Obama, I wonder where they were educated!! How can so many Americans be deceived so easily? I wonder if these are the same “educated” people who voted Bush a second term? Remember, Hitler was elected because he was an excellent speaker and rallied the people.

 
Comment by Sonja

To DM:
What is so unusual to have a house that costs 1.600000 if you make about 400000 to 500000 Dollars a year. I make about 50000 a year and can easily afford a house that costs 160000, so about three times of my yearly income, same as Obama.

 
Comment by Jim Jones

Yes Obama, show your records. No, I don’t mean all of those records that are publicly accessible on the Illinois State Senate web site. That only shows your tenacious record of authoring over 800 pieces of legislation. I’m talking about those records that you left with your successor, who has offered the media and rights groups to come by his office on several occasions and review those records. I mean come on, couldn’t you at least setup a library and get millions of dollars of foreign money to hide - uh, I mean protect - your records?

Oh, and you really need to release those Rezko documents. Simply putting them up on your campaign web site for all to see and download isn’t enough. You need to hand deliver these documents to every American.

Wake up people. Don’t you remember the 90’s? You’re conservatives! Be careful what you wish for!!!

 
Comment by Lexus in PA

Hillary has no more expereince than Obama, All she did was do what first lady normally do… pick flowers, schedule dinner, make plans for her husband. Sad thing she was home the nite Bill and Monica were having their affair…WOW, i sure dont trust Hillary to answer the phone at 3am! She mite not hear the phone ring..
If we can forgive Bill Clinton for disgracing us in the white house with Monica, then we can allow Obama to finish what he started without judging him for something HE DID NOT SAY…
PA has your back Obama!

 
Comment by Farra Yeswe Khan

He hasn’t been around long enough or done enough to have a record.

 
Comment by dylish

Sonja, thanks for that explaination. DM, its called a mortgage but for Obama its called a #1 book deal.

 
Comment by Lace King

Are you kidding me? SHE WOULDN’T RELEASE THOSE RECORDS UNTIL A LAWSUIT WAS FILED AGAINST HER!!!!

Unless something new has happened within the last week about the issue, both Hillary and Barack have not released their 2007 tax returns. But these are not even due yet. The difference between the two: Hillary hasn’t released hers in YEARS! And, she just loaned her campaign $5 million?! I don’t think so. YES WE CAN!

 

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Democrats(2,118 needed to win nomination)

Candidates number of delegates
Barack Obama 2206
Hillary Clinton 1906
John Edwards 26
Total 4138

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Candidates number of delegates
John McCain 1504
Mike Huckabee 286
Mitt Romney 242
Ron Paul 24
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