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Article: Is Hillary secret rev. al ally? New way to attack Barack.(Intelligencer)(Hillary Clinton and Al Sharpton on Barack Obama)(Brief article)
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- April 9, 2007
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DOES Al Sharpton have an agreement with the Clintons to help them handle their Barack Obama problem? Obama's camp thinks so. "It's no state secret that he's with Hillary, and that's fine," says a source close to Obama. Often critical of the centrist Clinton White House, Sharpton was far from Lincoln Bedroom material--and the Clintons weren't regulars at Sharpton's House of Justice in Harlem either. Now, according to a Sharpton source, the Clintons have enacted "a full-court press" peppered with "personal touches" to win Al over. (Bill called Sharpton to offer condolences after James Brown's death, the source says; Obama only wrote a note.) ...