Obama debate comments set off firestorm
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Barack Obama's offer to meet without precondition with leaders of renegade nations such as Cuba, North Korea and Iran touched off a war of words, with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton calling him naive and Obama linking her to President Bush's diplomacy.
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WASHINGTONâThe US presidential campaign is entering a pivotal two-week period at a boil with Democratic candidate John Kerry and President George W. Bush making emotion-charged arguments to set the groundwork for their first debate on Thursday.
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Obama's sweeping victory in Iowa has panicked her contributors, damaged her electability argument, and set off recriminations inside the campaign
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Democrat John Kerry and President Bush delivered fresh criticisms Friday as they emerged from a campaign debate that, for the first time in weeks, put Bush as much on the political defensive as Kerry.
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The leading Democratic candidates for president engaged in a spirited clash in their second debate, challenging one another on financing the Iraq war.
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A last-minute flap blew up on Thursday at the presidential debate site over timer lights on the candidates' podiums, in a sign of how important each campaign saw every detail of the encounter.
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Democratic heavyweights Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama faced off in their first one-on-one debate of the 2008 White House race here Thursday, trading pointed but polite barbs.
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An Illinois controversy pitting two important constituencies against each other put Barack Obamaâs legislative skills to the test.
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MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina  - Democratic White House contenders Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton clashed angrily in a South Carolina debate on Monday, accusing each other of shading the truth and drawing a rebuke from rival John Edwards for "squabbling."
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Two days after scoring points in his debate with President George W. Bush, Democrat John Kerry was under major Republican assault for his defense policies, but balking at mounting a counter-attack.
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US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accuses Bill Clinton of making false statements about him.
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Clinton accuses Obama of desperation as debate rancour brings campaign to low ebb
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Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday he was not greatly offended by the Fox News chief's word play about his name that led Nevada Democrats to cancel a presidential debate hosted with the network.
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CHARLESTON, South Carolina  - Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and six other Democratic presidential contenders wrestled with questions of race, war and gender on Monday in a debate starring a parade of questions posed in YouTube videos.
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A number of assertions in the latest Republican presidential debate went unchallenged because candidates spent more time criticizing Democrats from afar than challenging Â and correcting Â each other face to face.
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The war of coded words about race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has the potential to cause the internal crack-up the party always fears
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Quotes from the Democratic debate between New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday in Los Angeles.