Will attacks on Obama backfire?
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Advisers to Hillary Clinton said that her husband, Bill Clinton, would probably shift into a less combative role in her campaign after his attacks on Barack Obama drew sharp criticism from
powerful Democrats. The latest controversy came after the former president compared Obama’s resounding victory in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, in which slightly more than half the
voters were African-American, to Jesse Jackson’s victories in the state in 1984 and 1988. Hillary Clinton said the comparison was just an off-the-cuff remark. Critics accused Bill Clinton of
suggesting that Obama merely appealed to black voters because he is black. (The New York Times, free registration)
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