Clinton assails gap betweeon Obama's words and his actions

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Hillary Clinton's rally yesterday was brought to its feet with a blast of theme music from the Rocky movies — filmed in nearby Philadelphia — that tell the story of an underdog boxer battling against the odds and refusing to go down.

So it is with her campaign. Despite being bloodied in round after round of her bout with Barack Obama, Mrs Clinton keeps coming back off the ropes — more aggressive, determined and passionate than ever before.

In Harrisburg yesterday, in front of a pumped-up crowd of 1,700 - with more waiting outside — she revelled in her new role. When her microphone failed, she fetched another. When her croaking voice briefly collapsed, a woman shouted: “You can do it, Hillary!” And she did.

She lambasted Mr Obama for supporting Dick Cheney's energy legislation, saying it was more evidence that his rhetoric about cleaner fuel was mere words. Mrs Clinton then claimed that recent comments from his advisers, casting doubt on Mr Obama's policies on trade and Iraq, showed a similar gap “between talk and action”. She added: “If you talk, you'd better mean what you say.”

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