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The Classic Clinton Push-Back

By The Daily Dish
Jan 21 2008, 4:53 AM ET

All criticism of Bill is a "right-wing talking point" - that's Howard Wolfson. Ah, yes. Takes me back. The classic Clinton pivot. Any criticism of us is grist for the far right. Then this:

Pressed on whether there were any point at which Bill's conduct would come to be seen by the campaign as a liability, and asked if there was any campaign discussion of this possibility, Wolfson replied. "A few more liabilities like New Hampshire and Nevada, and we'll win the nomination," he said.

Mark Steyn is onto something:

I love the way all these worldly Democratic sophisticates - the ones who told us "everybody does it" - sound so sweetly naive at discovering that this time round "everybody" has done it to them. Better get used to a lot more of that.

Yeah, they'd better.



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