Obama criticizes Clinton at DNC meeting

 VIENNA, Va. — Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) took a series of veiled shots at fellow candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in his speech at the Democratic National Committee’s fall meeting today.

Obama drew scattered applause for a series of lines that took aim at Clinton without mentioning her by name.

{mosads} Obama referenced the number of candidates in the 2006 election who asked him to campaign for them and suggested he is the most unifying candidate in the field.

Clinton’s ability to appeal to voters in red states has often been called into question.

“An electoral strategy that leaves half the country behind just doesn’t do it,” said Obama, who polls show is running neck and neck with Clinton in the Iowa caucuses just more than a month away.

Obama said Republican front-runners former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney would like nothing better than to rehash divisive debates from the past.

He said campaigns should not be about triangulation and poll-driven decisions. He added that he’s done more than any candidate in the campaign to stunt the influence of lobbyists.

Obama said that while others want “the same electoral map … I believe I can change that map.”