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Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack said he is disappointed with Senator Barack Obama’s comments earlier this week about Senator Hillary Clinton. In a stop in Concord, New Hampshire on Thursday, Obama referred to Clinton’s approach to foreign policy as “Bush-Cheney light.”

“Not only is that not correct, it is a distortion of Senator Clinton’s comments and her record,” Vilsack said. “But it flies in the face of the promise that Senator Obama gave to all of us when he began his campaign of avoiding negative politics and campaigning with politics as usual.”

Vilsack, a Democrat, is the national co-chair of Clinton’s presidential campaign.

The Obama and Clinton campaigns have been involved in a war of words over how they would engage rogue governments if elected president. At last Monday’s CNN/You Tube Debate, Clinton said she would not meet with leaders of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela without precondition. Obama, invoking John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan’s diplomacy during the Cold War, said that he would meet with leaders of those countries during his first year in office..