Obama says Clinton should keep running

Clinton cites Bush for woes
Speaking in Indianapolis, Clinton tied many of the region’s economic woes to U.S. trade policy and to President Bush’s laissez-faire approach to China, where numerous America jobs have been shipped in recent years.

“We are now deeply in debt. We owe money to everybody, not just to China but to Mexico and practically any other country you can think of. We are $9 trillion in debt,” she said.

Obama, who is on a six-day bus tour through Pennsylvania, toured a factory that makes the wires that eventually become Slinky toys. He played with a Slinky through the visit.

Asked whether voters might be turned off by talk of some jobs not coming back, Obama said he was trying to give the phone worker a clear answer.

“The point I was making is that the same jobs are probably not going to come back. We’re not going to suddenly see Bethlehem Steel reopen,” he said. “What we’re going to see is potentially some specialty steel of the sort that we saw at Johnstown Wire that has created a niche that can grow.”

Also Saturday, former Democratic contender John Edwards made his first public comments on the race since dropping out two months ago.

“I have a very high opinion of both of them,” Edwards said of Obama and Clinton at the Young Democrats of North Carolina convention. “We would be blessed as a nation to have either one of them as president.”

At the same event, Chelsea Clinton said her travels have opened her eyes to sexism.

“I didn’t really get how much sexism there still was in our country until I was at a rally with my mom in New Hampshire, and someone came up to me and said, ‘I just can’t see a woman being commander in chief,”’ the former first daughter said.

She has always been supported by both the men and women in her family, she said. “I have been so profoundly more grateful than I have ever been over the past few months for my parents because of that.”

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