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Bill and Hill: Campaigning or Competing?

Posted Dec 23, 07 6:47 PM CST in Politics 

(Newser) – Caught up again in what she calls the Clintons' "conjugal psychodrama," New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd says there is "panic and perplexity" in the Hillary camp about whether the prospective First Laddie is helping or hurting things. “For the first time since the Marc Rich pardon,” Dowd quotes a Clinton friend, “Bill is seriously diminishing his personal standing with the people closest to him.”

Dowd says it is hard to tell what motivates the former president: is he really just defending his own legacy when he rises to Hillary's defense? What's up with those clumsy remarks by the man thought to be be the best politician of his time? How come, in a recent speech, he said "I" 94 times and "Hillary" only 7?

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Former President Bill Clinton leans back in his chair and laughs while listening to student speeches at Harvard University's 2007 Class Day on campus in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, June 6, 2007. (AP...   (Associated Press)
Former President Bill Clinton, left, shakes hands with the crowd gathered at the Sumter County Exhibition Center in Sumter, S.C. after speaking on behalf of his wife and Democratic presidential hopeful...   (Associated Press)
President-elect Bill Clinton reaches into a crowd of supporters as his wife Hillary and Tipper Gore, right, cheer at the Old State House in Little Rock, Arkansas, Nov. 3, 1992, after Clinton defeated...   (Associated Press)
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