Steely Clinton slams Obama

Pennsylvania - Hillary Clinton journeyed to the centre of Pennsylvania's economic blight on Sunday, to accuse White House foe Barack Obama of misrepresenting her, two days before the state's primary.

"We are getting to the decision day," Clinton told a raucous crowd in Bethlehem, which lost its famed 150-year-old steelworks in 1995, a victim of fierce foreign competition.

"It's really a choice of leadership, I am offering leadership you can count on, you know where I stand, you know what I have done, you know what I will do," the New York senator said.

She fired off a populist economic message and said the presidency was not just about speeches, in a swipe at Obama, the Illinois senator promising to bring a hope-fuelled wave of political change to Washington.

Clinton accused Obama of leaving millions of people out of his healthcare plan, and of misrepresenting her own strategy on the hot button issue.

"I really regret that because the last thing we need is somebody spending as much money as he has downgrading universal healthcare," she said.

"That's what Republicans do, not what Democrats do."

On Saturday, Obama accused Clinton of resorting to "slash and burn" politics in a bid to overhaul him in the Democratic presidential race, as the fight between the two camps got nastier with election day looming.

Entering the primary, in which Clinton hopes to produce a big win to reignite her flickering White House hopes, her team is downplaying expectations, arguing that Obama has outspent her three-to-one in a statewide advertising blitz.

- AFP