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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (11342)	7/1/2007 9:51:28 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224749

DINGBAT:All-about-me Clinton now about 'her' -RON FOURNIER(AP)7/1/07 WASHINGTON - Love him or hate him, anybody who's followed Bill Clinton's career knows it's always been about him — as in No. 1 or "me," "my" and "I." Now it's about her. Considered by friends to be self-absorbed, the former president checks his ego at the curb this week to fly to Iowa and take a surrogate's role in the presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Her advisers privately fret that the former president will overshadow Sen. Clinton with his campaign skills and career-long habit of drawing attention to himself. One of her confidants, still stinging from the Monica Lewinsky affair, refers to Clinton as "Mr. Me." But the senator needs his help and her staff is betting that Bill Clinton is ready to be Mr. Her. "He's going to talk about her and she's going to talk about the country," campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said. "And nobody can do better than him." Wolfson pointed to a five-minute campaign video in which the former president outlines Sen. Clinton's biography. Framed by a lamp's soft yellow glow, Clinton talks about his wife's commitment to public service in law school, where they met. The video is a taste of things to come in Iowa, New Hampshire and beyond, campaign officials say. Still, a few discerning Clinton associates note that he used the words "I," "me" and "my" 16 times in the video. They wryly observe that the taping was a model of self-control when compared with his past habits. EDITOR'S NOTE — Ron Fournier covered Bill Clinton for The Associated Press during his years in Arkansas and Washington.