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Bill Clinton shows -- and gets -- the love - Joan Walsh
salon.com - 8/28/2008
Bill Clinton shows -- and gets -- the love - Joan Walsh
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All day long the cable talkers had their Clinton drama story line down: When Hillary Clinton pointedly asked her Obama-resistant admirers Tuesday night, "Were you in it just for me?" she was also talking to her husband. Barely hours after Sen. Clinton got her media critics to sheath their knives with a stunning speech endorsing Barack Obama Tuesday night, critics had a new but depressingly ...

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The lights are on, but you're not home:
The Volokh Conspiracy — According to Joan Walsh at Salon : [Bill Clinton] left the stage to U2's "Beautiful Day," which then strangely segued into Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" although the band cut off the refrain but the crowd shouted out the line they dropped: "You might as well face that you're addicted to love." (HT: Jim Chen)

Live from DNC: The Big Dawg Delivers
Pajamas Media — ... , though as you’ll soon see, he doesn’t need any help from me. I love Joe Biden, and America will too.” — William Jefferson Clinton Compliments of the traditional media and the Clinton haters sucking up the rumors for weeks, all we’ve been hearing about is that Bill Clinton was told what to say, how long he could talk about it, and that it had been difficult for the Clintons and the Obamas to make it happen. The fantasy feud between the two Democratic camps that now exist within the Democratic Party has been topic one on page one across this country for weeks. Following up ...

Clinton Class (It’s Not An Oxymoron After All)
PoliGazette — ... In elegant speeches that competed only to upstage each other in their enthusiasm for endorsing Barack Obama, Hillary and Bill Clinton have struck a blow against those (including yours truly) who have condemned them as hopeless narcissists incapable of transcending their megalomania and hubris. ...

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