Hillary Clinton turns up the anti-Bush rhetoric Her comments are amplified by her status as Democratic front-runner for the 2008 presidential race.(Newswatch)

Byline: Marc Humbert THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton has come out swinging.

Up until recently, the New York senator has been under fire from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party for refusing to join the call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq and for her finely modulated criticism of President George W. Bush.

But there is a new tough-talking Clinton these days.

At a Harlem church on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, she said Bush's presidency would "go down in history as one of the worst" and that the GOP-controlled House "has been run like a plantation."

And during a foreign policy address …