Obama Opens Two-Front Fight: Battles both Clinton and McCain

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WP: Obama Opens Two-Front Fight
By Jonathan Weisman

HOUSTON -- With Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton still battling, some Democrats have wondered who will battle Republican John McCain as he turns toward the general election.

But an increasingly confident Obama is beginning to battle on two fronts, holding off Clinton with one arm as he takes increasingly frequent swings at McCain with the other. At Obama rallies, McCain has become a foil, the object of boos and hisses for the partisan faithful. But Obama appears to believe he has found the way to attack, even as he continues his outreach to Republicans.

"I revere and honor John McCain's service to his country. He's a genuine hero," Obama told a packed house at Houston's Toyota Center Tuesday night, during his roughly 45-minute post-Wisconsin victory speech. "But when he embraces George Bush's failed economic policies, when he says he's willing to send our troops into another 100 years in Iraq, then he represents the party of yesterday, and we want to be the party of tomorrow."

It helps that Obama now lumps both his opponents into the same camp, the Washington establishment that voted for war in Iraq and has catered to special interests. "The last thing we need is to have the same old folks doing the same old things, making the same mistakes over and over again," he said in Houston....

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