It sounds in reading what Chris reported that Hillary was the focus of quite a few attacks by fellow Democrats:
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton came under withering attack from her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination tonight in Philadelphia on topics ranging from Iran to electability to immigration, emerging largely unscathed despite the near-relentless focus on her during the two-hour long debate.
Time and again, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.) sought to draw bright lines between themselves and Clinton.
Obama, who had promised over the weekend to step up the level of contrast between himself and Clinton, was clearly focused on doing just that -- albeit it in a generally non-confrontational tone.
"The way to bring about that change is to offer some sharp contrasts with the other party," Obama said early in the debate -- in a sign of things to come. He repeatedly sought to paint Clinton as unable or unwilling to be frank with voters about her positions on Social Security and Iran. "That may be politically savvy but it doesn't offer the clear contrast we need," Obama said.
It was former Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), however, who offered up the most biting and direct criticism of Clinton during the debate's first hour.
Questioning Clinton's vote for a proposal that designates the Iran Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, Edwards said that if President Bush took the country to war in six months "are we going to hear 'if only I knew then what I know now'" -- a direct shot at the language Clinton uses on the stump when discussing her vote in favor of the 2002 use of force resolution against Iraq.
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