The candidates spent nearly half of the debate with moderators continually grilling Obama (as he is the clear front runner) with the numerous spurious allegations that have been fodder for journalists and pundits for the past few weeks and especially for the increasingly desperate Clinton camp.
Obama once again answered questions about controversial statements by his former pastor and his own comments that some rural Pennsylvanians are "bitter." He was also questioned about wearing an American flag lapel pin and his association with Bill Ayers, a Chicago supporter who was a member of the Weatherman Underground and is now a professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Mrs. Clinton seemed determined to push the question of Mr. Ayers, citing details of Mr. Obama’s association with him as a fellow board member for the Woods Fund of Chicago. Mr. Obama, was well prepared, and responded by noting that Bill Clinton, when he was President, had pardoned the sentences of two other members of the Weather Underground.
“By Senator Clinton’s own vetting standards, I don’t think she would make it, since President Clinton pardoned or commuted the sentences of two members of the Weather Underground, which I think is a slightly more significant act than me serving on a board with somebody for actions he did 40 years ago when I was only 8 years old,” he said.
Senator Obama pointed out Clinton’s continued negativity and needing to resort to politics-as-usual attacks, despite her transparent efforts to assure one and all of the priority of electing a Democrat to take the White House in November. "You take one person's statement if it's not properly phrased and you just beat it to death, and that's what Senator Clinton has done the last several days," he said. "But I do think it's important to recognize it's not helping that person who's sitting at the kitchen table, trying to figure out how to pay the bills at the end of the month."
"During the course of the last few days, she has said I am an elitist, out of touch, condescending," said Senator Obama. "Let me be absolutely clear, it would be pretty hard for me to be condescending towards people of faith because I am a person of faith, and have done more than most other campaigns in reach out specifically to people of faith."
Obama was also able to point out that his record of unifying voters would make him the better Democratic nominee. "There is no doubt that the Republicans will attack either of us," he said. "What I have been able to display during the course of this primary is that I can take a punch. I have taken some pretty good ones from Senator Clinton."
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