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Article: He Said, She Said ... ; Clinton, Obama Try To Defuse Gaffes In Last Debate Before Primary
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- April 17, 2008
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PHILADELPHIA - Sen. Hillary Clinton slammed Sen. Barack Obama
during their much anticipated debate Tuesday for fundamentally
misunderstanding rural and working-class Pennsylvanians when he
described them last week as clinging to guns and religion out of
bitterness over economic frustration.
Just a few minutes later, though, Clinton asked voters to
overlook her embellishment of a 1996 trip to Bosnia she took as
first lady. Clinton had said she ducked sniper bullets on the
tarmac, although video evidence refutes her story.
I just said some things that weren't in keeping with what I knew
to be the case and what I had written about in my book, Clinton