Hillary Clinton tells Ohio supporters: 'No Palin'

By JOE MILICIA, Associated Press Writer

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Story Created: Sep 14, 2008 at 8:16 PM EST

Story Updated: Sep 14, 2008 at 8:16 PM EST

ELYRIA, Ohio (AP) — Campaigning for Barack Obama in battleground Ohio, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton singled out Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on Sunday by using a revised applause-line delivered at last month's Democratic convention.

Clinton told about 1,650 supporters in an Akron high school gymnasium that Palin and Republican presidential nominee John McCain would only continue the failed policies of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

"To slightly amend my comments from Denver: No way, no how, no McCain, no Palin," she said as the audience cheered.

At a rally in Elyria earlier Sunday, Clinton delivered the same line, receiving the same enthusiastic response from a crowd of 1,200 — many wearing "Hillary for President" T-shirts leftover from her bitter primary fight with Obama.

Clinton campaigned heavily in the state, which has lost thousands of manufacturing jobs in recent years, in the weeks leading up to her March 4 Democratic primary win.

She returned to economically hard-hit northeast Ohio on Sunday to urge her supporters to work just as hard for Obama and Joe Biden, the Democratic nominees for president and vice president.

"Barack and I may have started out on two separate paths, but we are on one journey now," she said in Akron. "This journey will lead straight to the White House."

In Elyria, about 30 miles east of Cleveland, Rep. Betty Sutton of Akron introduced a recently laid-off Ohio auto plant worker, who then introduced Clinton. Keeping her remarks to just 20 minutes, Clinton spoke about the economy, a topic she brought up again at the Akron rally.

"Senator McCain says our economy is fundamentally sound. I wish he'd come here and talk to you," she said. "All that McCain and Palin offer is four more years of the same failed policies."

Wearing a T-shirt that said "Hillary is my home girl," Jill Geier of Barberton said she supported Clinton during the primary, but has switched to Obama.

"I'm just disappointed as a woman that she's not on the ticket," the 26-year-old said.

Geier, however, said she respected the choice of Biden because of his foreign policy experience.

Biden is scheduled for two days of campaigning in northern Ohio next week, beginning with a stop in the Toledo area on Wednesday.

Clinton recently campaigned for Obama in Florida, another important swing state, and was one of several high-profile Democratic women who vouched for Obama in Ohio over the weekend. They included Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano.

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