'Republicans will have a truckload of dirt on Hillary'

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Associated Press

Posted online: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 09:54:06
Updated: Thursday , February 07, 2008 at 10:11:49

Chicago, February 7: Senator Barack Obama has predicted that Republicans will have a truck full of dirt to unload on Hillary Rodham Clinton if the former first lady wins the Democratic presidential nomination, and said he offers the party its best hope of winning the White House this fall. Clinton countered that she did.

At a news conference last morning after Super Tuesday, Obama offered some pointed advice to members of Congress and other party leaders who will attend the national convention this summer as delegates not chosen in primaries or caucuses.

He said that if he winds up winning more delegates in voting than the former first lady, they "would have to think long and hard about how they approach the nomination when the people they claim to represent have said, 'Obama's our guy,'" he said.

Clinton, in a later news conference at her campaign headquarters in Arlington said, "If voters start to think about who would be the best president, to be commander in chief on Day One, to turn the economy around and who would be the best Democratic nominee to win in November, I am very comfortable with the answers to those questions."

Obama won primaries and caucuses in 13 states on Tuesday, while Clinton won eight and American Samoa. Obama and Clinton were in a tight race in New Mexico.

The first-term senator said he had won a majority of the 1,681 delegates at stake, although The Associated Press tally showed several hundred yet to be allocated.

Asked about Clinton's recent comment that she would not allow herself to be victimised by the type of attacks leveled against Senator John Kerry in the 2004 race, Obama said he had been vetted by his opponent in the nominating campaign.

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