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First, Bill Clinton came from nothing but smarts as much or more than Obama. Obama's mother and father both had graduate degrees and his grandmother was vice-president of a bank. Clinton's grandparents owned a small grocery store where they were famous for extending credit to blacks as well as whites who were down on their luck, and his mother was a nurse.
Second, Hillary Clinton did NOT support the war. Their are lot of interviews and speeches in which she (and Bill) said DON'T INVADE IRAQ, DON'T INVADE IRAQ. She supported giving Bush the right to THREATEN invasion to get the inspectors back in to AVOID war. They went back in because of the threat, but Bush, lying bastard that he is invaded anyway.
Third, both Clinton's actually are liberals. But after his first 2 years of governing as a liberal, Bill faced a hostile Republican Congress and so was forced to compromise to get any of his programs through, including an increase in the minimum wage and the earned income tax credit. As a Southerner he knew that you had to talk like a moderate to get in and pass a liberal agenda. He did. Hillary is more a product of the liberal social gospel movement from the turn of the last century. They were Christians who believed that Jesus cared about "suffer the little children to come unto me," and "I was naked and you did not clothe me..." rather than Evangelicals of recent time who believed Jesus cared most about stoning homosexuals and women who had abortions.
