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Reports: Double bad news for Hillary

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It's kind of a double bad-news day for Hillary.

First, the NYT has a story about Bill's complicated relationship with a Canadian mining magnate that suggests he helped the guy get a uranium deal in Kazakhstan by praising the country's leader while Hillary and the State Dept. were criticizing lack of freedoms there.

He got a huge donation to his Clinton foundation shortly afterward, and then apparently denied having a meeting with a Kazakh official until the Times came up with proof that caused him to admit it....Maybe South Carolina isn't the only reason that Bill has been in Ohio and Oklahoma the last couple days, saying nothing controversial and keeping a low profile....

Then, ABC has gone to town with a long piece about Hillary's failure to fight anti-union tactics at notoriously hostile Wal-Mart while she was a board member there. The story is old, from last year, but ABC has videotapes of old shareholder meetings with Hillary, so that spices it up.

You see a fellow board member denouncing unions as "blood-sucking parasites." Then, at a different meeting, you see Hillary: "As a shareholder and director of our company, I'm always proud of Wal Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anyone."

There's bound to be a certain amount of juxtaposition when you want to play the political role of voice of the people, and still want to scale the heights of establishment power. But still, it's not so much what you want to see airing the week before Super Tuesday.


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