Obama gets offer of shirt off woman's back

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Clearly, the lady who offered to give Barack Obama the shirt off her back rattled him more than the lady next to her, whose top was emblazoned with a biceps-flexing Hillary Rodham Clinton and the words "Hillary Can Do It."

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