INDIANAPOLIS — Broadening his attack, Barack Obama said Saturday that Hillary Rodham Clinton’s support for a summertime break from the federal gasoline tax symbolizes a candidacy consisting of “phony ideas, calculated to win elections instead of actually solving problems.”
Not so, the former first lady told a campaign audience as the next round of primaries approached. Obama is “attacking my plan to try to get you some kind of break this summer,” she said.
Locked in a Democratic presidential race for the ages, Clinton and Obama campaigned across Indiana and North Carolina.
Obama campaigned across Indiana with his wife, Michelle, their daughters, Sasha, 6, and Malia, 9, in tow.
Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, 28, often appears as a surrogate campaigner for her mother, but she figured in the race in another way Saturday.
“Chelsea was a teenager in the White House, which meant that the Secret Service went on her dates,” the former first lady recalled in a discussion with several working mothers in Cary, N.C. “A lot of her girlfriends’ mothers loved it when they double dated because there was a guy with a gun in the front seat.”
