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CLEVELAND, Ohio: Barack Obama intensified his bid to
end Hillary Clinton’s White House quest in Tuesday’s momentous
nominating contests in Texas and Ohio, jabbing back in a seething
foreign policy row.
Clinton meanwhile, in a wistful
moment, said she would examine her options when the votes were in,
after several top Obama backers upped pressure on her to concede the
Democratic nomination if she fails to score big victories.
“I intend to do as well as I
can on Tuesday, we will see what happens after that,” the former
first lady said in a late-night press conference on her campaign
plane.
The Illinois senator, who would
be the first African-American president, hit back after Clinton said
Saturday his entire campaign was based on just one antiwar speech in
2002, as part of a withering critique of his national security
credentials.
“When it came time to make the
most important foreign policy decision of our generation—the
decision to invade Iraq—Senator Clinton got it wrong,” Obama
argued in Westerville, Ohio on Sunday.
“We’re still waiting to hear
Senator Clinton tell us what foreign policy experience she actually
has,” Obama said, according to a copy of his remarks obtained by
Time magazine.
Clinton, desperate to halt
Obama’s winning streak at its current 11 straight nominating
contests, meanwhile raised fresh doubts about whether he was ready
to serve in the Oval Office, as the two candidates rumbled across
economically-depressed midwestern Ohio, before both heading to Texas
on Monday.
The latest count of nominating
delegates, awarded after each state contest, by website
RealClearPolitics shows Obama leading by 1,389 to Clinton’s 1,279,
with the freshman senator pulling into the lead after 11 nominating
wins in a row. A total of 2,025 delegates are needed for victory at
the Democrats’ convention.
--AFP
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