Former President Clinton Shows Calmer Face in Campaign

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NYT: Former President Shows Calmer Face in Campaign
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: February 1, 2008

The red-faced, finger-wagging Bill Clinton has left the campaign trail.

The new Bill Clinton, playing to crowds in New Mexico, New Jersey and Ohio, is earnest and on script, telling crowds to vote for his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, in the 22 Democratic presidential nominating contests Tuesday.

No criticism of her rival, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois. And no extemporaneous interviews with the news media. Staff members have shooed reporters away from the rope lines where hundreds of people line up to shake the former president’s hand and pose for pictures.

But even as the campaign reins in Mr. Clinton, his statements from last week in the heat of the South Carolina primary are reverberating among some Democratic voters.

People like Nancy Sabato, 45, a graphic designer who lives in South Orange, N.J., said they had been befuddled as they watched Mr. Clinton thrust himself into his wife’s campaign and steal the show with remarks that various Democratic officials have labeled racial and divisive....

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/us/politics/01clinton.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all