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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: After avoiding pointed criticisms of her opponent all weekend, Hillary Clinton took Barack Obama to task on Sunday, suggesting that his campaign was negative and duplicitous.
"This week we had a debate, and it showed you the choice you have," Clinton said, speaking at a rally at a high school. "And it's no wonder my opponent has been so negative these last few days of this campaign, because I think you saw the difference between us. I'm offering leadership you can count on. You know where I stand, you know what I've done, you know what I will do." She added, "While my opponent does one thing and his campaign does another, you can count on me to tell you where I stand."
Clinton also criticised Obama over his health care plan, which she said is not universal, and his "yes" vote on the 2005 energy bill, which Clinton voted against.
Her appearance in Bethlehem, a former steel town in the Lehigh Valley, was the first of three rallies planned as she crisscrossed Pennsylvania on Sunday, two days before the state's primary. today. Earlier in the day, Clinton stopped at a restaurant in the heavily contested Philadelphia suburbs, where she met with voters, many of them undecided.
The Clinton campaign released a new 30-second television ad on Sunday accusing Obama of "false charges" against her health care plan. "There are more and more questions about Barack Obama," a narrator intones in the ad. "Instead of attacking, maybe he should answer them."
Clinton said Obama had misrepresented her health care plan in mailers and ads in Pennsylvania. "I really regret that because the last thing we need is to have somebody spending as much money as he has downgrading universal health care," she said. "We need to try to achieve universal health care."
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| This article on the national political campaigns in the United States is from The New York Times. It was specially selected and prepared by the editors of The New York Times News Service. |
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