Manchester: Shaking off the shellshock of a stunning defeat, Hillary Clinton has tried to turn her White House rival Barack Obama's top asset -- soaring, inspirational rhetoric -- into a liability.

As polls suggest the charismatic Illinois senator may be moving into pole position in New Hampshire ahead of Tuesday's primary, after his famous victory in the leadoff Iowa caucuses, the former first lady fought back hard.

"There is a big difference between talking and acting, between promising and delivering," Clinton said today, before going door-to-door, chasing every last vote, trying to stave off what would be a second, painful loss.

She later told a cheering crowd at least several thousand strong, that Democrats must "nominate and elect a doer, not a talker," in one of her sharpest jabs at Obama yet, telling them to "separate rhetoric from reality."

Fresh Clinton attacks on Obama came amid a rising criticism and second guessing of her tactics, and suggestions her campaign harks back more to the past, and the 1990s, instead of reaching for the future.

"She's so Yesterday" the Boston Herald tabloid, which circulates widely in New Hampshire, blared on today, with a mock-up of a vinyl record Beatles hit "Yesterday" across the front-page.

The splash tapped into anecdotal feelings that Obama's bold, vigorous, and energetic message, may be leading a generational shift away from what critics say is the poll-driven politics of Clinton and her husband Bill Clinton.

Apparently buoyed by a large crowd crammed into a school gymnasium, Clinton, on the ropes ever since slumping into third place behind Obama and John Edwards in Iowa Thursday, went about her task with renewed passion and vigor.

Source : PTI