How Damaged Is Bill Clinton?

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20 Jan 2008 05:01 pm

Judging from my email in-tray, a lot. Tomasky:

I don't know who on this planet has the stature to go face-to-face with Bill Clinton and look him in the eye and tell him he behaved in a discreditable fashion. His wife? His buddy Vernon Jordan? Whoever it is, someone had better stop him. He campaigned against a fellow Democrat no differently than if Obama had been Newt Gingrich. The Clinton campaign may conclude that, numerically and on balance, Bill helped. But, trust me, to the thousands of committed progressives who supported him when he really needed it, who went to the mat for him at his moment of (largely self-inflicted) crisis but who now happen to be supporting someone other than his wife, he's done himself a tremendous amount of damage.

Drudge is reporting that Obama hits back at Bill tomorrow morning. About time. It seems to me that since Bill Clinton is effectively running for a third term, he shouldn't be allowed to trash other Democratic candidates without getting trashed back.

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