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Analysis: Obama-Clinton proves a winning team

 

Published 5/8/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

(CNN) — Think of all the problems that U.S. President Barack Obama is facing — the economy, two wars, Somali pirates and the Swine flu — and you can easily forget the one that went away. It's Hillary Clinton, who literally went away, traveling as America's top diplomat to Switzerland and South Korea, Ireland and Indonesia, [...] (link)

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