The Republican presidential candidate John McCain's opponents from the Democrats are still fighting a stiff course to gain the party nomination for presidential poll in November; they not only fight one another in rhetoric but also are at odds with the Republican hopeful who has already secured the ticket to contest. As the days pass on, the initial glow seen in the faces of the democratic candidates is gradually disappearing, reflecting on desperation and despair to the worried democrats, though they now control both the Houses of the Parliament. Issues relating US economy continues to occupy a significant place in their debate.
The winner of the Democratic nominating battle between Clinton and Obama will face McCain in November's election, and in recent days both candidates have toned down their attacks on each other to focus more directly on McCain. They have criticized the former Navy fighter pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam for saying he does not know as much about the economy as he does about national security and military issues.
The democratic campaign would finish in June and thus far the final choice between Obama and Hillary has remained a puzzle. So, both are wooing the electoral collage to make the choice. Fortunes have been fluctuating between them in the primaries so far. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, having pretensions of well-wishers of the down-trodden, have assailed potential White House opponent John McCain on the economy on April 01, accusing the Republican of favoring the wealthy and turning his back on struggling workers and middle-class families.
Clinton and Obama were in Pennsylvania on 01 April ahead of the next contest when 158 pledged delegates will be at stake. Some Democrats are concerned the prolonged campaign will hurt the eventual winner in the match-up with McCain. But Clinton, who trails Obama in pledged delegates won in state-by-state contests, has rejected calls to step aside.
The Democratic presidential contenders, campaigning in Pennsylvania ahead of their April 22 showdown, took a break from attacking each other to portray the Arizona senator McCain as uncertain and untested on economic issues. In separate appearances but similar language, Obama and Hillary said McCain would take his economic cues from President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "John McCain admits he doesn't understand the economy -- and unfortunately he's proving it in this campaign," Clinton told the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO union group. "After seven disastrous years of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the stakes in this election couldn't be higher and the need to change course couldn't be more urgent.
Dr Abdul Ruff Colachal
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