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CHICAGO (AFP) - Barack Obama is delving into the Clinton playbook to hammer his White House rival John McCain on the economy, turning for inspiration to the couple he dethroned to become the Democratic Party's new champion.
On a pre-convention campaign swing through southern states this week, the Illinois senator has been invoking the populist rhetoric that propelled Bill Clinton to the presidency in 1992 and fired up Hillary Clinton's own shot at the Democratic nomination this year.
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