Jan 22, 2008 5:30 pm US/Central
Sparks Still Flying Between Obama And Clinton
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (CBS) ―
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Democratic presidential hopeful New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama exchange comments during the Democratic Presidential Primary Debate hosted by CNN on Jan. 21, 2008.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are back on the campaign trail and back on the war path. The sparks are still flying from that fiery debate between the Democrats Monday night.
CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports that Monday's Democratic debate might have been the best presidential debate he has ever seen and the senators were still going at it on Tuesday.
Obama is scheduled to speak again in South Carolina at South Carolina State University. Hours before that speech, hundreds of students were already lined up outside the auditorium.
They and many other young voters were talking about that heated debate.
Obama was scheduled to visit three college campuses on Tuesday as he prepares for Friday's big primary.
With Monday night's debate still on everyone's mind, he claimed his chief rival, Hillary Clinton, had repeatedly flip-flopped and routinely distorted his record.
"The point is this: this is exactly the kind of politics we cannot afford right now," Obama said Tuesday.
A few minutes earlier at a Washington, D.C., news conference, Clinton had called Obama thin-skinned, suggesting he just can't take the heat of a tough campaign.
"Senator Obama is very frustrated. It is clear that this is a difficult subject area for Obama," Clinton said.
"We cannot afford a president whose positions change with the politics of the moment. We need a president who knows being ready on day one means getting it right from day one and South Carolina, if you give me that chance, that's the kind of president I intend to be," Obama said.
Obama has told us that he plans to campaign hard in South Carolina right through the primary. Clinton has taken an unusual step that's surprising some; she's left the state.
After Monday night's debate, she went to Washington and is now en route or in southern California. She'll also visit New Mexico, Arizona, New Jersey, seemingly everywhere but South Carolina, where she won't visit again until the day before the primary.
But her husband, who is already in South Carolina, can be expected to go one-on-one with Obama until then and voters can expect a lot of Obama bashing. They've seen a lot of that already in the past few weeks.
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