Clinton slams Barack campaign for spreading 'misleading information'

Cincinnati: Hillary Clinton has slammed Barack Obama on Saturday for campaign leaflets on her health-care plan that she called "blatantly false" accusing her rival of resorting to Republican tactics in their contest for the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination.

In a bitter exchange, Obama defended the leaflet as accurate and campaign spokesman Bill Burton decried Clinton's "negative campaign."

"Shame on you, Barack Obama," Clinton said, speaking to reporters after a rally in Ohio, a state that is crucial to her struggling campaign.

Brandishing a copy of the leaflet, Clinton said the Obama campaign was spreading "false, misleading, discredited information" about her health-care plan.

Obama said the content of the leaflet was correct. He said he was puzzled by the sudden "change in tone" by his rival because the leaflets Clinton referred to were sent out days or weeks ago. He suggested there was something "tactical" about her attacks now.

"The notion that somehow we're engaging in nefarious tactics I think is pretty hard to swallow," he told reporters. "There's nothing in there that's factually inaccurate."

Obama, has won 10 consecutive state nominating contests since February 5. His string of victories putting him ahead of the race for delegates to a nominating convention this summer where the party will pick a candidate for the November election.