Clinton, Obama Camps Spar on War
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 20, 2007; Page A06
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 19 -- A brewing argument over Iraq between the presidential campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama broke into public view here Monday night when Clinton's chief strategist challenged Obama's credentials as a consistent opponent of the war.
Mark Penn and Obama strategist David Axelrod engaged in a pointed and occasionally heated exchange during a public forum at Harvard University over the issue that has become the central point of dispute between the two leading candidates for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
"Do you think Hillary Clinton is the kind of person who if she were president would have started the Iraq war?" Penn asked. "No." As his exchange with Axelrod continued, he raised the question that many Clinton advisers see as critical: "Is this election going to turn about what happened in 2002 or what's going to happen in the future?"
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