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Obama tries to move beyond controversy over pastor

Clinton made a rare appearance on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor" and was asked by conservative host Bill O'Reilly whether she felt sorry for Obama in a taped interview.

"Well, I think that he made his views clear finally, that he disagreed, and I think that's what he had to do," she said, calling Wright's comments "offensive and outrageous".

"And people have to, you know, decide what they believe. And I sure don't believe the United States Government was behind Aids," the New York senator said.

Obama defended his opposition to a temporary suspension of the gasoline tax.

"Here's the truth. It would save the average family 30 bucks over the course of three months - $28. Or more precisely 30 cents a day, which is less than you can buy a cup of coffee for at the 7-Eleven," Obama said.

Suspending the gasoline tax would divert money from the federal highway fund, which the tax finances, and cause job losses in construction, Obama said.

McCain told reporters on his campaign bus that Americans deserved a break from the gasoline tax.

"It's a nice little break for Americans, particularly lower-income Americans who generally speaking drive further and drive older cars, which then increases their costs at the gas pump," the Arizona senator told reporters in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Clinton went on a 45-minute morning commute in a pickup truck with Jason Wilfing, 33, of Plymouth, Indiana. When the pair stopped at a filling station en route to his sheet metal factory job, Clinton paid nearly $64 to fill up half the truck's fuel tank.

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