Apr 13, 2008 3:27 pm US/Eastern
Clinton Takes Swipes At Obama's Remarks
BLOOMSBURG, Pa. (AP) ―
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Barack Obama headshot, as Senator of Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate, and former US President Bill Clinton speaking.
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Bill Clinton took a swipe at remarks about small-town voters made by his wife's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination while trumpeting her credentials with a little more than a week left until the critical Pennsylvania primary.
Speaking in a middle-school gym, the former president opened his talk by relaying comments made to him before arriving on stage.
"I just want you to know that the people you are about to see, they're not bitter, they're proud," Clinton told the crowd in recalling the comments to him. "They just want this country to go in a different direction."
Clinton didn't identify Sen. Barack Obama by name, though he was referring to remarks made by the Illinois senator last week, when Obama explained his troubles winning over working class voters by saying they have become frustrated with the country's economic conditions.
Clinton said it was important to "not ever bet against America" and championed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's work to improve health, education and economic development in rural Arkansas while Clinton was governor there.
The Clinton campaign got some bad news Sunday, though, when both The Morning Call of Allentown and the Times-Tribune of Scranton endorsed Obama.
Hillary Clinton's father grew up in Scranton and is buried there. She campaigned door-to-door there on Sunday.
Bill Clinton also spoke at Bucknell University in Lewisburg and planned another stop later Sunday in Jim Thorpe.
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