Obama hits back at personality claim of McCain camp

BARACK OBAMA hit out at John McCain yesterday over a comment from his campaign manager that the presidential race will be decided more on personalities than on issues.

“Which probably explains why last night when... all these speakers [at the Republican National Convention] came up, you didn’t hear a single word about the economy,” Obama said at an economic forum in New Philadelphia, Ohio. “Not once did people mention the hardships that people are going through.”

“I guess I don’t blame them,” Obama added, “because if you don’t have any issues to run on, you want it all to be about personality. If you have got George Bush’s track record and John McCain voting 90% of the time in agreement with George Bush, then you probably don’t want to talk about issues either.”