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Article: Obama, Clinton debate delivers no knockout
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- April 17, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA -- Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton slugged it out
Wednesday night in what at times looked like another sequel to
"Rocky," the 1976 film set in the City of Brotherly Love.
During the nationally televised debate six days before the
Pennsylvania primary, the Democratic presidential candidates roughed
up each other for the first 45 minutes before turning to a tamer,
more policy-oriented discussion, during which they agreed on much.
They pledged not to raise taxes on people making less than
$250,000 a year, talked tough about a potential nuclear threat from
Iran, and agreed unconditionally to pull out of Iraq.
Clinton and Obama stopped short of saying they would support a