
Astrid Riecken photo
TOLEDO, Ohio — Sorry, I couldn't resist the headline. But it's accurate. Sen. Barack Obama has filled the University of Toledo's Savage Hall to capacity. When the traveling press arrived two hours before the event started the line was stretched around the building. We figured they hadn't started letting people in yet.
Wrong — it was already at least half full. Here's some video that I took of the crowd from the sky box they have set up as the press file.
Earlier, Obama made some news and continued trading accusations with Clinton:
LORAIN, Ohio — Sen. Barack Obama said today Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presents herself as if she was "co-president" from 1993 to 2000.
Mr. Obama, holding a town hall forum at a wall board manufacturing plant here, said his criticism of her position on the North American Free Trade Agreement is fair because she includes her time as first lady for eight years as part of her claim to "35 years of experience."
"She has essentially presented herself as co-president during the Clinton years," the Illinois senator charged during a press conference after the town hall concluded. "Every good thing that happened she says she was a part of, and so the notion that you can selectively pick what you take credit for and then run away from what isn't politically convenient, that doesn't make sense."
Read the rest of the story, and Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson's response, here.
Brian DeBose has a blog up featuring a conversation Sen. Hillary Clinton had with reporters on her press plane.
Finally, check out some more of Astrid's photos from the trail here.
— Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (1)
I guess you could call the the criticism campaign. It's not a matter of why one person is better than the other, it's why the other person is worse. From what we hear on the campaign trail, we are going to get the best of the worst. We should have expected it after seven years of blame politics.
Posted by Larry Stone | February 24, 2008 11:51 PM