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Is Hillary’s Biggest Issue Her Husband?

December 17, 2006

He stood far behind, hiding in plain sight, though his glowing white hair and
ruddy complexion rendered him as inconspicuous as a face on Mount Rushmore.

The spotlight was not Bill Clinton’s. It belonged, instead, to Sen. Hillary
Rodham Clinton as she celebrated her reelection victory.

So Bill stood poker-faced. He clasped his hands. He held his head high. He
clapped when appropriate. He smiled ever so faintly. And he did not move. When
Hillary offered thanks to him and turned around to acknowledge him, he did not
step forward, did not step to her side. He stayed put, several feet away, as
if taking pains to soak up not one ray of the spotlight he so dearly loves but
that, now more than ever, must be hers and hers alone.

It was political Kabuki — Bill Clinton, held in check — on a night that some
observers saw as the start of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Bill
is poised to mightily help or deeply hurt his wife’s White House prospects.
Either way, his impact will be profound as he undertakes the unprecedented role
of ex-president turned male campaign spouse to the first woman ever to have
a serious shot at the presidency.

Yes, Bill can deliver political superstardom. He’s a razor-sharp political
strategist. He knows the institution of the presidency. His fundraising chops
are unrivaled. All that is well and good — perhaps too good, according to a
September CNN poll, which showed his favorable rating higher than hers, 60 percent
to 50 percent.

But there’s the other Bill, the one who could be a massive and messy distraction.
That Bill is the ex-president known for his outsize appetites and indiscipline,
the Bill who still revels in the limelight, who runs with global jet-setters.
He is prone to pop up in the press for even the smallest of curiosities, like
being spotted at dinner with another woman — bad news for an ex-president already
infamous for marital infidelity.

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