Obama and Bill Clinton Share a Laugh

There was a moment last night when Barack Obama was saying the McCain campaign was calling him a Socialist because he had once shared a peanut butter sandwich with a classmate and Bill Clinton laughed–not that slit-eyed, calculated political chuckle but a genuine guffaw of recognition from someone who had suffered the smear treatment and survived.

When the former President was being hounded by Newt Gingrich and his crew, it was no laughing matter, and there is still reason to believe that Clinton failed to take out Osama bin Laden when he could have back then because it would have been seen as a “Wag the Dog” diversion from his impeachment.

But more than a decade later, the politics of personal destruction has worn thin…

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