On The Trail, Obama Airbrushes Out Clinton's Name

There's something missing from the Barack Obama campaign this weekend: virtually all mention of his primary opponent, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. In speeches and in brief press conferences, Senator Obama has been pounding away on the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, often using the identical rhetoric that was served up against Mrs. Clinton just days ago.

All day Friday and again on Saturday, Mr. Obama has been unrelenting in his attacks on Mr. McCain's so-called Gas Tax Holiday plan, which Mr. Obama ridicules as saving motorists "a quarter and a nickel a day" through the summer. It's the same attack he launched against Mrs. Clinton during the run up to the May 6 primaries in North Carolina and Indiana, only lately with Mrs. Clinton virtually airbrushed from his text. Over the past two days, Mr. Obama has uttered the word "Clinton" sparingly, and only in response to questions from the audience--usually on health care--at some of his mass rallies. His campaign confirms that mention of Mrs. Clinton has disappeared from all prepared remarks.

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