PITTSBURGH, March 25 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton and the staff of her rival, Barack Obama, traded political jabs out on the campaign trail Tuesday.
One day after she was called out for saying she dodged sniper fire when landing in Bosnia in 1996 when she hadn't, Clinton faulted the Illinois senator for his relationship with his former pastor. The New York senator said in Pittsburgh that she would have left a church if the minister had made inflammatory remarks like those the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has made.
"He would not have been my pastor. You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend," she told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
The Hill reported that Obama spokesman Bill Burton said Clinton resurrected the Wright controversy in an effort to divert attention from her admittedly false claim about dodging gunfire in Bosnia.
"After originally refusing to play politics with this issue, it's disappointing to see Hillary Clinton's campaign sink to this low in a transparent effort to distract attention away from the story she made up about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia," Burton said.
The two senators face a key electoral battle in the Keystone State's April 22 primary.
