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Article: Obama, Clinton trade blows in S.C. [Corrected 01/23/08] ; Spar over records; former president at center of storm

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WASHINGTON - The deepening feud between the campaigns of Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton burst into a verbal brawl during last night's Democratic debate, with Obama accusing Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, of distorting the facts on his record and Hillary Clinton charging that Obama has not given "a straight answer" on any position since he began running for the presidency.

At one point, the rhetorical fisticuffs devolved into political mudslinging: Clinton said that Obama once represented a "slum landlord" in Chicago, and Obama said that while he was working as an organizer for the poor in Chicago, she was busy as a ...

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