Obama takes the gloves off, tries comedy

(CNN) — Democrat Barack Obama launched sharp — and at times bitingly sarcastic — attacks at presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in Nevada Friday.

In comments he first introduced on the trail Thursday night, Obama chastised Clinton for trying to make an issue of the fact he admitted at a recent debate he is at times disorganized, and mocked both Clinton and John Edwards for what they offered as their "weaknesses."

"I said, 'Well, I don't hang on to paper really well. My desk is a mess, so you know I need people to help me filing and keeping on schedule and things like that,'" he told a raucous crowd in Las Vegas. "And so my two colleagues — Sen. Edwards says um, 'My biggest weakness is I'm just so passionate about poor people and helping them,' and then Hillary says, ‘My biggest weakness is I'm so impatient to bring about real change in America.'"

"Now, I didn't, nobody had clued me in, that ya know, see, if I had gone last I would have said 'My biggest weakness? I like to help old ladies across the street," Obama deadpanned to laughter.

"I didn't understand the question," he said, laughing. "But this is what I mean. This is political speak. This is what you learn in Washington from all those years of experience — it's funny, except its sad, because it means that the American people are constantly having to sort out ‘what do people really mean?’"

Obama also went after Clinton for saying in the recent debate she was pleased a bankruptcy bill she voted for in 2001 failed to become law, and suggested it fits into a larger pattern of the New York senator often not being upfront.

"She said she voted for it, uh, but she hoped that the bill would die," he said. "Anybody remember that? Think about that. She voted for it even though she hoped it wouldn't pass."

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