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Civil Rights Vet Backs Bid
In Sparks, Nev., Republican candidate Mitt Romney holds a town hall meeting.
(By Scott Sady -- Associated Press)
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"So I'm not sure if any of us knows exactly where she is standing on this issue," Obama said in Des Moines. "But I can tell you this: When I am president of the United States, the American people and the world will always know where I stand."
In Atlanta, Clinton defended her statement.
"What I have been saying for a long time is that the United States of America should negotiate with Iran. Right now the Bush administration will not because they hold the position that Iran must first totally renounce its nuclear program," she said. "We need to have a process of diplomatic engagement with Iran, but that doesn't mean the president personally engages in that. That's not the way diplomacy works."
Clinton also argued there was a difference between her stance and that of Obama, saying she would not personally meet with Iran's leaders.
In a speech, Obama also criticized Clinton for her vote to authorize the Iraq war and revisited another issue in his effort to slow her progress: Clinton's vote for Senate bill that would designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. as a terrorist organization, which Obama argues is a step toward war with Iran.
Clinton aides distributed an interview in which Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), one of Obama's closest allies, defended his own vote for the Iranian measure. He told Bloomberg News, "It's rare that Barack and I disagree on an issue of his magnitude."
-- Perry Bacon Jr.
ON THE AIRWAVES
Romney Vows to Fight 'Jihadism'
Republican candidate Mitt Romney says in a new television ad that "violent, radical Islamic fundamentalism" is "this century's nightmare, jihadism."
The former Massachusetts governor's ad, which began running in Iowa yesterday, describes a scary future in which terrorists attempt to "unite the world under a single jihadist caliphate."
As president, Romney pledges in the ad, he will increase the military by 100,000 soldiers, monitor terrorist calls into and out of the United States and stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
-- Michael D. Shear
