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Article: Mid-race crisis for Bill Clinton
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- January 24, 2008
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Six months ago, Bill Clinton seemed to be settling comfortably
into roles befitting a silver-maned former president: statesman,
philanthropist, philosopher-king. Now he has put all that high-
mindedness on hold - maybe it was never such a great fit, after all -
to co-star in his wife, Hillary's, campaign as a coldblooded
political hit man.
No, scratch the "coldblooded" part. At times, in his attempt to
cut Barack Obama down to size, Bill Clinton has been red-faced with
anger; his rhetoric about voter suppression and a great big "fairy
tale" has been way over the top. This doesn't look and sound like
mere politics. It seems awfully personal.
Obama's candidacy not only threatens to obliterate ...