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...every turn in his campaign Obama has faced pressure to attack Clinton-pressure he has usually avoided until Pennsylvania. Throughout the long summer, when Clinton was viewed as the inevitable Democratic nominee, Obama supporters pushed him to go on the offensive. Instead, he held his tongue, stressed his theme of change and a new kind of politics, and managed to pull out a stunning victory in Iowa. Even as the campaign has dragged on and gotten increasingly heated, Obama rarely attacks first. He took more than a week, for example, to hit Clinton after her chief strategist Mark Penn resigned...
...that doesn't mean Obama is standing pat. "Senator Clinton has been trying a lot of different approaches and a lot of different criticism. This is sort of the kitchen sink strategy," Obama told reporters in New Albany, Indiana, Wednesday after a town hall meeting. "And you know, I know that people like to talk tough and use a lot of rhetoric about fighting and obliterating and all that stuff. You know that I have always believed that if you are tough you don't have to talk about...
...After ABC's much criticized debate last week, Clinton began attacking Obama for complaining (as did much of the media) that the questions focused heavily on gaffes and gotcha politics. In a commercial aired last weekend, over images of Pearl Harbor, the Cold War, the 1929 stock market crash, the Cuban Missile crisis and Osama bin Laden, Clinton reprised Harry Truman's famous line, "If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen." In response, Obama was as forceful as he has ever been in the campaign, but some observers wonder if his show of toughness came...
...Donna Brazile, Al Gore's former campaign manager and a still-undecided superdelegate, believes the attacks-both Clinton's and the GOP's-are aimed at painting Obama into the stereotypical angry black man. "First he wasn't black enough, then too black because of Rev. Wright," said Brazile, who is African American. "They want a rise out of him, and that will ultimately destroy his candidacy, that will make him the angry black male...
...long as it has because it led her to Obama. "I first supported John Edwards and when he dropped out I backed Hillary," said Woods, wearing a pink shirt with "Ya'll" scrawled on the pocket. "In the beginning I don't think his message really resounded. But then Clinton, she has slowly been chipping away my support; she's done everything I hoped she wouldn't. She went there with her attacks. I started leaning towards Obama and today sealed the deal." For Obama, the test will be if enough people like Woods will reward him for resisting...