Word: clintonized
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...Obama moved on to his stump speech, disparaging Bush and John McCain and mocking the latter's suggestion that Obama has socialist tendencies, Clinton sat nearby, gazing, nodding and showing off his trademark exaggerated belly laugh on a few occasions...
...Obama, who at times during his campaign has spoken critically of Clinton's two terms in office, returned the favor. He called Clinton passionate and smart, "a great President, a great statesman, a great supporter...
...Nobody makes the case for change that works for the middle class like Bill Clinton," Obama said, contrasting the 1990s with the eight years of George W. Bush's presidency...
...Clinton and Obama have spoken by telephone several times since Obama sewed up the Democratic nomination. They also had one previous meeting - it was cordial - in Clinton's Harlem office. But this was the first joint public appearance for two politicians who are routinely called the greatest of their generation...
...regularly observed by political pros that Obama's background as an African American from humble origins would have made him just the kind of potential presidential successor Clinton would love to champion - if the young Illinois Senator hadn't stood in the way of Clinton's wife...