Obama 'best placed to sort out economic mess', says Hillary

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The US financial crisis will help Barack Obama to win the race to the White House, his former rival Hillary Clinton said today.

Mrs Clinton said the Illinois senator who beat her in the Democratic primary season was best placed to haul the United States out of the "mess" it was in.

The former first lady said his Republican rival John McCain, who has admitted that the economy is not his strongest suit, had a history of supporting deregulation of business, one of the factors being blamed for the current crisis.

``Barack Obama's going to win,'' she told CBS's The Early Show.

``No doubt ... if anybody looks at the mess we're in today.

``Barack Obama is being advised by the same people who got us out of the ditch in 1993.