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Clinton, Obama Stress Party Unity

Posted on: Thursday, 17 April 2008, 09:00 CDT

Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama used their debate in Philadelphia to appeal to Pennsylvania voters before Tuesday's primary.

The U.S. senators questioned each other's honesty and electability in the debate Wednesday.

Observers say New York's Clinton must win in Pennsylvania, among the last of the primaries, to keep her campaign alive, the Boston Globe reported. She leads Obama in Pennsylvania, but polls show the Illinois freshman senator gained ground recently.

Obama and Clinton stressed the need for party unity, expressing confidence in each other's viability against Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican nominee. But they also tried to raise concerns about one another's chances in November.

Clinton brought up Obama's relationship with the former pastor of his church who made racist comments about the United States, and Obama's remarks about some Americans being bitter. Obama spoke of Clinton's exaggeration about the danger she faced in Bosnia in 1996.

Republicans are going to be out there in full force, Clinton said. I have a lot of baggage and everybody has rummaged through it for years.

Obama agreed, There is no doubt that the Republicans would attack either of us.

Source: United Press International

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