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28 Apr 2008 08:35 am
The Great Asset
Ryan Lizza on Bill Clinton:
When Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign was launched,
in January, 2007, her supporters feared that Bill would overshadow her,
as he had when they both spoke at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, a
year earlier. Now the constant fear is that he will embarrass her. When
he makes news, it is rarely a good day for his spouse. Whether he was
publicly comparing Barack Obama’s primary victory in South Carolina to
Jesse Jackson’s campaigns in the eighties or privately, and
apoplectically, complaining that Bill Richardson broke his word by
endorsing Obama, every story has seemed to reinforce an image of
Clinton as a sort of ill-tempered coot driven a little mad by Obama’s
success. “I think this campaign has enraged him,” the adviser told me.
“He doesn’t like Obama.” In private conversations, he has been
dismissive of his wife’s rival. James Clyburn, an African-American
congressman from South Carolina, told me that Clinton called him in the
middle of the night after Obama won that state’s primary and raged at
him for fifty minutes.
He just cannot believe that his time has come and gone. But it has.
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