"I don't think people want a lot of talk about change," Mrs. Clinton said during a December campaign trip through Iowa. "I think they want someone with a real record - a doer, not a talker. After eight years of incompetence, they don't want false hope; they want real results."

It was neither the first nor the last time Mrs. Clinton would question Mr. Obama's record as an Illinois senator or to suggest that the numerous present votes showed that he was a man of words, not action. ">Obama