James Forsyth James Forsyth

A brewing Clinton scandal

The gloves are coming off in the US presidential race. Today, Rudy Giuliani’s team labelled Mitt Romney a Hillary Clinton clone, which is like a Labour politician calling one of his colleagues a Thatcherite in the 1980s. While on the Democratic side, John Edwards and Barack Obama are taking increasingly openly swings at Hillary Clinton. So this LA Times story about Hillary’s fundraising might give either of them the opening they need to go after Hillary on what are her three biggest weaknesses: her links to the Clinton scandals of the 1990s, trustworthiness and being part of the same old political establishment.

It is hard to put a sympathetic spin on this story about Clinton’s surprising success in raising large amounts of coin in New York’s Chinatown neighbourhood, an area where 45 percent of people are living below the poverty line.

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