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Excerpt:
The following is from the May 3, 2008, edition of The
Courier-Mail of Queensland, Australia. Cal Jillson, a political science
professor at SMU, provided expertise for this story.
With friends like these
As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battle for Indiana, both face trouble from close advisers
By STEFANIE BALOGH
The Courier-Mail (Queensland, Australia)
WITH a beetroot-red face, he's wagged his finger to punctuate his frustration and anger. He's talked himself hoarse at up to seven campaign rallies a day, all the time trying to appear supportive, not overpowering.
In a US presidential nominating contest like no other, former US president Bill Clinton finds himself back on the campaign trail he loves, but this time cast in the uncharted role as the spouse of a candidate.
He is former first lady Hillary Clinton's chief political surrogate, dispatched to the backblocks of the United States to employ his charm to bolster her electoral appeal.
Bill Clinton might be her most influential backroom adviser and can still draw the crowds, but his zeal on the stump is also proving to be a headache for Hillary Clinton as she battles Barack Obama for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. ...
Bill Clinton's repeated
bungles -- he claimed Obama had played the "race card" on him after likening
his win in South Carolina to Jesse Jackson's victory in the 1980s, in a bid
to marginalise his wife's rival as a black candidate -- have raised eyebrows.
Cal Jillson, a professor of political
science at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, says those claiming
Bill Clinton's outbursts are calculated and part of a master strategy are overestimating
his current political skills. "I think of Bill Clinton in the same way I think
of Michael Jordan when he made his comeback in basketball," Jillson says. "Michael
Jordan was the best player in the game for a dozen years or more, retired and
then came back and while still a good player, never played up to his original
level.
"So that's where I think Bill Clinton is. He was the best Democratic Party politician of his era.
"He was a very astute, very calculating, very skilled politician but I think he has lost his jump shot, in the sense that he is no longer quite as skilled as he once was."
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