 July 1, 2007
Posted: 06:48 AM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 as self-absorbed as he is brilliant, 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 unparalleled 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 powerful, 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, starting in law school, where they met. "She just kept plugging away with new ideas, making progress, day in and day out," Clinton says. "That's the kind of leader she is." 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. Filed under: Bill Clinton • Hillary Clinton • Race to '08
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