Bill Clinton, Inching Toward the Exit

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The Trail
Copyright 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008; 4:41 PM

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, chat with customers at Lynn's Paradise Cafe during a campaign stop in Louisville, Ky., May 20, 2008 (Associated Press) By Perry Bacon Jr. LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For Hillary Clinton's staff, two for the price of one has always been complicated. On the day Kentucky heads to the polls, former president Bill Clinton joined his wife to greet people at Lynn's Paradise Cafe, a kitschy restaurant here. A reporter shouted a question at Hillary Clinton, asking, "Would you want to comment on sexism in the campaign?" It's a theme many Clinton supporters have raised, as has the candidate herself. "Oh, I'm just having a good time talking to everybody in Kentucky," Sen.Clinton said, brushing the question aside to resume posing for pictures and chatting with voters. Bill Clinton, who was following behind his wife, had no such reluctance when



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