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Hillary Obama clash in crucial debate

AFP, Cleveland. Ohio
Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Tuesday traded attacks over the Iraq war, healthcare and foreign policy at a feisty debate heading into crunch White House nominating contests.
Giving no quarter, both presidential runners probed each other's defenses but neither appeared to have landed a knockout punch a week before the pivotal clashes in Texas and Ohio.
They ended the 90-minute debate in Cleveland praising each other over presumed Republican nominee John McCain, with Obama stating that Hillary would be "worthy as a nominee" but that he would be better at uniting the nation.
However, for much of the encounter, the two Democrats exchanged potshots over negative
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campaigning as they highlighted the signature differences between their historic White House bids.
Hillary highlighted recent mailers from the Obama campaign on her healthcare and trade proposals that contained "false, misleading and discredited information."
The literature on her plan for universal healthcare read "almost as if the health insurance companies and the Republicans wrote it," she said.
Despite repeated interruptions from Hillary, the Illinois senator hit back by stating her campaign "has constantly sent out negative attacks onus."
"We haven't whined about it," said Obama, whose healthcare plan focuses on driving down costs rather than making insurance mandatory.
Hillary's tone in 'Cleveland was being closely watched. In a debate last week in Texas, she had been expected to go on the offensive, but only unleashed a few poorly received attacks before ending on a valedictorynote.
Now, seated close to Obama at the 20th and possibly last Democratic debate of this lengthy primary season, Hillary came out fighting with her White House dream on the line heading into the March 4 battles in Ohio and Texas.
To scattered boos, she complained that she always received the first question of debates and pointed to a weekend skit on the satirical program "Saturday Night Live" in which news anchors fawned over Obama.
The first laughs came nearly an hour into the debate, when Obama gave Hillary "points for her delivery" after the MSNBC hosts aired a clip of
her mocking his soaring oratory as the chorus or "celestial choirs."
Obama said that Hillary had betrayed a critical lack of judgment on the Iraq war and insisted he was best placed to take on McCain in November's presidential election.
Obama took aim at Hillary's campaign theme that because of her long experience in Washington, only she was ready to be commander-in-chiefon"dayone."