'Rove's Playbook'

"Let's have a real campaign. Enough with the speeches and big rallies and then using tactics that are right out of Karl Rove's playbook," she said, referring to the Republican political strategist behind George W. Bush's winning presidential campaigns.

Obama, speaking to reporters, acknowledged that on the NAFTA mailer, a story using the word "boon" to describe her feelings about the trade accord with Mexico and Canada had been amended after the mailers were sent out.

But he said Clinton referred to NAFTA as a success of her husband Bill Clinton's presidential administration in her autobiography.

At the earlier rally Clinton had trained her fire on Bush to try to undermine Obama's message of change. She said Bush, who campaigned on a platform of "compassionate conservatism," also had promised Americans change.

"He promised change, didn't he?" she said. "The American people got shafted and we're going to have to make up for it."

For his part, Obama criticized Republican front-runner Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists.

"It's indisputable that ... his top advisers in this campaign are lobbyists, that many of them have been helping their business on campaign bus," he said in response to questions from reporters. "And he's comfortable with raising money from lobbyists who are currently active in Washington. I have a problem with that."

(China Daily via Agencies February 25, 2008)