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As the Seasons Change, So Does Obama’s Desire for Comparisons

October 13, 2007 3:44 PM

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports:  Just like the changing leaves on the trees lining the street he walked upon, Senator Obama explained his changing rationale for an increased critique of his top opponents for the presidency.

“Now as the leaves turn and the air gets cooler there’s going to be more of an emphasis on the contrast between myself and the other candidates in the race,” he said.

Explaining that the Clinton campaign understands the point that they’re at in the race, Obama confessed, “They haven’t been accustomed to as much scrutiny as maybe they’ll be receiving now that it’s getting closer to the election.”

Ending a week of back and forth spats between campaigns, the senator did not ease up in his criticism of Clinton as he canvassed a neighborhood just outside Des Moines. “The degrees to which she would be willing to go along with Bush policies that provide a rational for keeping troops in Iraq longer or engaging in aggression toward Iran, those are all areas where we have specific differences,” he said.

Obama added that he thinks Clinton thinks more conventionally on foreign policy, and pointed once again to their difference on meeting with enemies of the U.S. as well as friends.

And even though this fall campaign season may have blown in more criticisms between competing campaigns, Obama admits not everything is changed, “We’re not undergoing some fundamental transformation approach. We continue to offer a hopeful and optimistic message on where we want to take this country.”

But the senator quickly added, “Obviously there is going to be difference between the candidates, we’re running for president…and voters are going to need to know where those difference are.”

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