Obama Press Release: Response To Clinton Campaign Conference Call

[Obama Campaign Press Release from March 15, 2008]

[This is a response to this Clinton Campaign conference call (audio available)]

The Obama campaign today released the following statement in response to the Clinton campaign’s request for Senator Obama to release documents already available on our campaign website:

“It’s the height of hypocrisy for Senator Clinton to demand the release of documents that are already on our campaign website while she steadfastly refuses to release her full tax returns and earmark requests from her time in the Senate, as well as her White House records and Clinton library donors. Democrats across the country should be very concerned about Senator Clinton’s refusal to offer a full and complete accounting of what could be lurking in this financial information and what that would mean for our party when we run against Senator McCain in November,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.

From the Chicago Tribune: The most remarkable facet of Obama’s 92-minute discussion was that, at the outset, he pledged to answer every question the three dozen Tribune journalists crammed into the room would put to him. And he did. When we endorsed Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination Jan. 27, we said we had formed our opinions of him during 12 years of scrutiny. We concluded that the professional judgment and personal decency with which he has managed himself and his ambition distinguish him. Nothing Obama said in our editorial board room Friday diminishes that verdict. [LINK]

Link to the documents: [LINK]