[TheKing]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama, the only black candidate for president, accused rival Hillary Clinton on Friday of hiding behind her gender after she was pummelled in a debate with six male candidates.

"I am assuming and I hope that Sen. Clinton wants to be treated like everybody else," the Illinois senator said in an interview with NBC's "Today Show."

"When we had a debate back in Iowa awhile back, we spent I think the first 15 minutes of the debate hitting me on various foreign policy issues. And I didn't come out and say: 'Look, I'm being hit on because I look different from the rest of the folks on the stage'," he said.

"I assumed it was because there were real policy differences there, and I think that has to be the attitude that all of us take. We're not running for the president of the city council. We're running for the presidency of the United States."
He was speaking a day after New York Sen. Clinton -- the only woman running for president -- urged women voters to rally behind her against "the boys club of presidential politics."

Obama and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, who are both trailing Clinton in polls by a wide margin, attacked the former first lady's honesty, leadership and ability to win the November 2008 election in a Tuesday night debate.

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I bet Obama takes the lead in the next couple of weeks. Hillary needs to get off this "i'm a victim" mentality, everytime shes in a tough spot.

[BIGJ]

Senator Obama will get the Democratic nod. Mark my words. I have been saying this over a year. Hillary's postion in the polls are nothing but a media creation.

I had back Obama early on but change my mind about him. I still believe that Obama will beat Hillary Clinton and revieve nomimation by the Democrats and Unity08.