2:30 pm ET: Participates in the Presentation of the Medal of Honor, Washington, DC 6:45 pm ET: Holds town hall meeting with voters, Waco, TX 2:50 pm ET: Holds media availability and announces endorsement, Lubbock, TX Appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Attends town hall meeting with voters, Austin, TX 5:00 pm ET: Attends fundraiser with supporters, Plano, TX 12:55 pm ET: Holds joint media availability with the Danish prime minister, Crawford, TX 2:00 pm ET: Delivers remarks at the Texas Outdoor Writers Association, College Station, TX 9:00 pm ET: Attends Clinton-Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative Project Launch, Toronto, Canada 10:15 am ET: Holds rally with voters, Lakewood, OH 8:30 am ET: Holds rally with voters, Kirtland, OH 4:00 pm ET: Holds rally with voters, Dallas, TX 1:45 pm ET: Holds rally with voters, Fort Worth, TX Attends rally with voters, Providence, RI Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, who made $266,000 in January, on a conference call with reporters. "I am making considerably less in February than I did in January." "When that call gets answered," Obama's ad says, "shouldn't the president be the one - the only one - who had judgment and courage to oppose the Iraq war from the start."
The Obama campaign responded by launching an ad in Texas which points to his early opposition to the Iraq war as well as his efforts in the Senate to secure loose nuclear weapons. Hillary Clinton launched an ad Friday asking voters: who do you want answering the phone at 3:00 am when "something's happening in the world." And we're banking that that concern is real." So, if he doesn't win all four of the contests, I think it demonstrates that there is a concern on the part of Democrats with giving him the nomination. He's telling people that he's the nominee. "He has all the advantages," Wolfson continued. Howard Wolfson, Clinton's communications director, defended the memo, saying, "If Senator Obama is, by their admission, essentially, the de facto nominee, he ought to win all these contests." "If he cannot win all of these states with all this effort, there's a problem," wrote Clinton strategist Mark Penn in a memo released to the press. The effort to move the goal post is likely a last-minute realization on the part of the Clinton camp that Texas, which allocates delegates based on a quirky primary-caucus system, might be slipping away from the former first lady. The Clinton campaign made this argument even though its top surrogates have been arguing for weeks that the former first lady can - and must - win both Ohio and Texas on March 4th. February 29, 2008— - The Clinton campaign audaciously tried to lower expectations for itself on Friday, putting out a memo and arguing on a conference call with reporters that there's "a problem" with Barack Obama if he cannot win Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island, and Vermont on March 4th.
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