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To: KLP who wrote (264394)8/31/2008 4:30:57 PM
From: Ruffian  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793759
 
Play of Day: Biden, Obama Bicker Over States' Corn

Saturday, August 30, 2008 8:30 PM

MARENGO, Ohio -- Barack Obama and Joe Biden survived their first public spat as running mates on Saturday. The subject: corn.

In this 297-person town north of Columbus, the Democratic ticket for president stopped at a church-run farm stand to buy produce. But when each started claiming their home states' supremacy, the jibing brought laughs.

"I used to think the South Jersey corn is ... the best corn," said Biden, a U.S. senator from Delaware. "John Glenn says that's not true."

"Ohio is known nationwide," said Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, standing with the group buying corn from the back of a box truck.

"Illinois has a little corn," Obama said of his home state. "I just want to make sure you know that."

"Ah, that's for hogs," Strickland chimed in with a chuckle.

"Sherrod Brown tells me the ice cream and the peaches and the corn are the best in Ohio. I didn't know that," Biden said, noting the U.S. senator also traveling with the campaign on a bus tour that in coming days will take the pair to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.

"Don't let anybody in South Jersey know I'm buying this corn," Biden said.

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Compiled by Associated Press Writer Philip Elliott.

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