Clinton on Clinton

discussing his speech at Coretta Scott King's funeral, and how he "upstaged" Hillary:

"I read about that, and I said, 'Hillary, if we both spoke at the Wellesley reunion, you'd probably get a better reception.' I said, 'You can't pay any attention to this.' I said, 'This is my life. I grew up in these churches ... You don't have to be better at this than me. You got to be better than whoever.'"

this isn't just the Big Dog being arrogant, it's important for candidates not from the south to remember. When you grow up in the South, you grow up with Southern preachers. Even if you grow up catlick, we've got catlick priests who do the whole southern-preacher-cadence thing as good as any Baptist rev. If you've ever seen Bill Clinton on the stump, you'll see this in full force. When he's in a church, it goes into overdrive. This skill isn't limited to the Big Dog, either (even though he's perfected it). Gore does a pretty good church-cadence stump when he gets worked up, also.

You can consider Hillary a Chicagoan because of her birth or a Noo Yawker because of her current residence/occupation, but she'll always be a Yankee, her time in Arkansas notwithstanding. Bill's right, Hillary needs to stick to what she's good at.

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