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Obama Says He's Rocky and Clinton is Apollo Creed

By Philip Klein on 10.30.07 @ 9:19PM

For all of the talk about how Obama was going to go for the jugular in this debate, given the oppourtunity, he barely tapped Clinton on the shoulder. He prefaced by calling his battle with Hillary "the most over-hyped battle since Apolo Creed and Rocky." Obama said he was Rocky (after all, the debate is in Philly). But the real question: is he Rocky in the first film, going the distance with the heavy favorite, or the Rocky of the second film, rising to his feet to victory after both fighters knocked themselves down? Obama then criticize her for flip-flopping on NAFTA, Iran, and torture. In actuality, he may be more like Michael Spinks.

Clinton, in her response, flashed her credentials as a Republican hate figure saying, "I don't think the Republicans got the message" that she had so much in common with them, pointing to how much she was brought up at the GOP debate. She's been fighting Bush-Cheney for years.

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