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Hilpocrisy: The Sins of Hillary Clinton
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 Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:00 am Post subject: Hilpocrisy: The Sins of Hillary Clinton |
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 Hilpocrisy: The Sins of Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton is more popular among Democrats than he was when he left the White House and more popular by far than his wife or any of her rivals.
Category: Commentary
But in the 1990s, as today, there were portions of the Democratic party that rankled at his leadership. The labor left was one. The congressional leadership on Capitol Hill was, at times, another. Now, almost eight years after Clinton left office, Hillary Clinton’s two leading challengers have drawn key advisors, and in some cases themes, from those precincts of the Democratic Party.
As the primary season enters the hand-to-hand combat phase, Sen. Barack Obama and former senator John Edwards face a challenge: Do they risk criticizing Bill Clinton while taking shots at his wife’s record? How do they draw voters to their visions of the future while recognizing, as Bill Clinton said this summer, that to many Democrats, “yesterday’s news was pretty good.”
“He is the single most popular political figure within the Democratic party, bar none - and this would be true in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina,” said Clinton pollster Mark Penn. The public polls back him up: the Gallup Organization found in March that Bill Clinton is viewed favorably by 88% of Democrats, and unfavorably by just 9%.
Clinton’s rivals, Penn said, “say they want to turn the page from the last 20 years, things like that. I think people want to turn the page with the Bush administration, but they were very satisfied with the Clinton administration.”
How to deal with Clinton’s legacy is a dilemma that has hovered over the last two Democratic nominees. In this cycle, the campaigns have responded to this challenge differently. Edwards talks with increasing heat about what he sees as failures of the Clinton administration, using the catch phrase “Lincoln bedroom” to reference the fundraising scandals of the late 1990s and attacking the trademark trade deal of the Clinton years, the North American Free Trade Agreement.
“The trouble with nostalgia is that you tend to remember what you liked and forget what you didn’t,” Edwards said in New Hampshire last month.
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