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Article: HILLARY CLINTON; A two-fer presidency?; Bill Clinton's remarks equating Barack Obama's win in South Carolina with Jesse Jackson's in the '80s should lead Hillary Clinton to question her husband's role in her campaign.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2008
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John Edwards' departure from the Democratic presidential field
will undoubtedly cause the tworemaining candidates to focus even
more fiercely on one another as the Wisconsin primary approaches. If
Bill Clinton, unleashed and unfiltered, remains a substantive part
of that equation, this is bad news for the quality of the discourse.
There are those who invest in the Clintons far too much
connivance, cleverness, calculation and conspiracy.
But the former president's comparison recently of Sen. Barack
Obama's victory in South Carolina's primary election to the Rev.
Jesse Jackson's victories there in 1984 and 1988 had the whiff of
too clever and at least a couple of those other "c" words.
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