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Article: Obama, Clinton Sparring Early; Campaigns' Scrutiny Unusually Intense
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
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Standing in front of a large banner that blared "Clinton,"
surrounded by students in Clinton Community College sweat shirts,
Sen. Barack Obama offhandedly mentioned the obvious.
"Hillary, you know, she's interesting," Obama said, acknowledging
that he understood they would consider other candidates before
making up their minds.
Interesting, indeed.
In the month since the presidential nominating contest got
underway, Obama (D-Ill.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.)
have barely mentioned each other's names in public or even greeted
each other in the Senate halls. But each campaign has increasingly
fixated on the other, engaging in a shadowboxing match in which they
intentionally cross ...