| June 8, 2008 | -
Hillary Clinton announced that she was “suspending” her campaign.
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New York Times
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| May 23, 2008 | -
Clinton insisted that her candidacy was still viable. “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?” she offered. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”
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The New York Post
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| May 8, 2008 | - Senator Barack Obama crushed Senator Hillary Clinton in the North Carolina
Democratic primary, lost by a small margin in Indiana, and then took the lead in pledged superdelegates. Clinton pointed out that she still enjoys support from hard workers and white people. “A woman is like a teabag,” she said, quoting Eleanor Roosevelt. “You never know how strong she is until she's in hot water.”
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New Yorker via MSNBC
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USA Today
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ABC
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The Los Angeles Times
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The Washington Post
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The Hill
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Chicago Tribune
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The New York Times
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| May 4, 2008 | - A filly named Eight Belles, Hillary Clinton's pick, came in second in the Kentucky Derby, while victory went to the agile colt Big Brown; after losing, Eight Belles broke both front ankles and was promptly euthanized.
| Source 1:
The Independent
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ABC
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| May 2, 2008 | - Speaking to North Carolina
Democrats,
Clinton promised, “If Senator Obama is the nominee, you better believe I'll work my heart out for him.”
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CBS
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| May 1, 2008 | - After Hillary Clinton proposed that she and Barack Obama compete in a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate, Fox News broadcast an image of Abraham Lincoln facing off against ex-slave Frederick Douglass instead of 1860 Democratic presidential nominee Stephen A. Douglas.
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The Atlantic
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| April 28, 2008 | -
Hillary Clinton gained nine more delegates than Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary and challenged him to debate without a moderator. Obama, who declined, reportedly seemed “tired” and “brittle” campaigning in Indiana. “Seniors, listen up,” he said. “I'm getting gray hair myself. Running for president will age you quick.”
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New York Times
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AP
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Telegraph
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| April 28, 2008 | - All three candidates taped messages for World Wrestling Entertainment's “W.W.E. Raw”: Clinton declared herself “ready to rumble” for the American people; Obama, echoing former wrestler Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson, asked, “Do you smell what Barack is cooking?”; McCain, speaking with a surly tone, equated the Iraq war with a wrestling match and said that Americans “do not watch wrestling because we're 'bitter,'” but rather because “wrestling is about celebrating our freedom.”
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New York Times
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| April 6, 2008 | -
Hillary Clinton and John McCain accused Barack Obama of elitism after Obama commented on the bitterness of working-class people in a speech at an expensive San Francisco fund-raiser. “They cling to guns,” said Obama, “or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations.”
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AFP
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NBC11
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BBC News
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Zombie Times
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| March 30, 2008 | -
McCain asked mortgage lenders to provide voluntary aid to homeowners, recalling that General Motors had offered no-interest car financing after September 11. Senator Hillary Clinton suggested consulting former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. While Clinton conceded that Greenspan helped cause the current crisis, she claimed that he has a “calming influence” on Wall Street. “Don't ask me why,” she said, “because I never understand what he's saying.” Senator Barack Obama gave a stirring speech, invoking the history of American finance from Hamilton and Jefferson to the present day, and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. proposed the largest reform of the American financial system since the Great Depression.
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LAT
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LAT
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NYT
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WP
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Attytood
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NYT
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Boston Globe
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WP
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WSJ
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Businessweek via Der Spiegel
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NYT
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WP
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| March 19, 2008 | - The National Archives released more than 11,000 pages of Senator Hillary Clinton's daily schedules as first lady, providing proof that she once read If You Give a Moose a Muffin out loud to a group of children.
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Washington Post
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| February 14, 2008 | - Senator Barack Obama beat Senator Hillary Clinton by huge margins in primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia, and Senator John McCain beat former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee. The close Democratic race worried party superdelegates, who will play a decisive role in choosing a candidate. Nancy Larson, a lobbyist and superdelegate from Minnesota, characterized superdelegates in general as “big schmucks.” Alaskan superdelegate Cindi Spanyers received a call from former president Bill Clinton, who recalled his wife's work on a fish cannery slime line there, and Obama was endorsed by the fishing village of Obama, Japan. McCain was endorsed by former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and ex-president George H. W. Bush.
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New York Times
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Washington Post
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Los Angeles Times
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Washington Post
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AP via Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Los Angeles Times
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Star Tribune
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Anchorage Daily News
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Guardian
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LAT
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AP via Google
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| February 7, 2008 | -
Democratic primaries left neither Senator Barack Obama nor Senator Hillary Clinton with a clear lead over the other, and operatives inside the Clinton campaign speculated that if the Democratic presidential nominee were not chosen until the convention, Al Gore could emerge as a compromise candidate. “There's a 5 percent chance of that happening,” a Clinton source said, “but that's 5 percent too high.” “He can still try next time,” said Obama's Kenyan grandmother, Sarah, of her grandson, “if he doesn't make it this time.”
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New York Times
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Telegraph
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New York Times
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Honolulu Advertiser
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| January 8, 2008 | -
John McCain and a tearful Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primaries.
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NYTimes.com
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| November 2, 2007 | -
Rudy Giuliani conceded that although his campaign's statistic for prostate cancer survival rates in Britain was seven years old and 30 points off, Americans should still be wary of “socialized medicine.” “If we ever got to Hillarycare in this country,” said Giulani, “Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.”
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| November 2, 2007 | - Late President Gerald Ford was reported to have ascribed “unlimited ambition” to Hillary Clinton in a 2002 interview. “The Republicans will make a mistake if they think she is gonna be a pushover,” said Ford, although he didn't think the country was “ready for a lady president.” Clinton told reporters that the other Democratic candidates for the presidential nomination were not targeting her because she was a woman, but because she was winning, and Mitt Romney launched an ad impugning her leadership experience. “The idea that she could learn to be president as an internship,” says Romney, “just doesn't make any sense.”
| Source 1:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| October 26, 2007 | - Elvis Costello sang to Hillary Clinton at her 60th birthday party.
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New York Times
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| October 15, 2007 | - Former aides to Gore told the press that he was unlikely to join the presidential race because he thinks Hillary Clinton is unstoppable.
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Telegraph
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| July 28, 2007 | - Letters written by Senator Clinton during her undergraduate years at Wellesley College were made public. One described her childhood sense of being the only person in the universe. “I'd play out in the patch of sunlight that broke the density of the elms in front of our house,” wrote the 19-year-old Clinton, “and pretend there were heavenly movie cameras watching my every move.”
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New York Times
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| July 24, 2007 | -
YouTube and CNN co-hosted a debate for the Democratic presidential candidates at The Citadel in South Carolina. After a YouTuber asked the candidates to say something they liked and something they disliked about the candidate to their left, John Edwards said that he approved of Hillary Clinton's record of national service, but perhaps not her salmon-colored jacket. Additional questions came from a Viking, a five-year-old, a snowman, and a man in a chicken costume.
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CNN
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| July 22, 2007 | - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney described Hillary Clinton's economic plan as “out with Adam Smith and in with Karl Marx.”
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Associated Press
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| July 20, 2007 | - The Pentagon accused Senator Hillary Clinton of reinforcing “enemy propaganda” when she asked whether the Bush Administration had an exit plan for the Iraq war.
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The Financial Times via MSNBC.com
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| July 3, 2007 | -
Barack Obama was raising more money than Hillary Clinton.
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BBCnews.com
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| June 28, 2007 | - “Is it a surprise to anybody in this room that if you don’t have any money, you don’t get any justice?” asked Alaska Senator Mike Gravel at the third debate of the Democratic presidential candidates. Gravel called for the abolition of the income tax and the war on drugs, Ohio
Congressman Dennis Kucinich called for the abolition of NAFTA and the WTO, and Hillary Clinton predicted that global warming would create jobs for millions of Americans. Joseph Biden and Barack Obama reminisced about getting tested for HIV.
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New York Times
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| May 20, 2007 | -
Hillary Clinton released a video on YouTube. “So now I'm turning to you, the American people,” said Clinton in the clip. “Here's the issue: what do you think our campaign song should be?”
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YouTube.com
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| May 3, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for the presidency debated at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas said that the day Roe v. Wade was repealed would be “a glorious day of human liberty and freedom” and that the current tax system “ought to be taken behind a barn and killed with a dull ax”; Senator John McCain of Arizona claimed that he would “follow [Osama bin Laden] to the gates of hell”; Texas
Congressman Ron Paul said that not going to war in Iraq would have been “conservative,“ because ”it’s a Republican, it’s a pro-American, it follows the Founding Fathers. And besides, it follows the Constitution.” California
Congressman Duncan Hunter took responsibility for the border fence in San Diego. “It’s a double fence,” he said. “It’s not that little straggly fence you see on CNN with everybody getting over it.” “No one on this stage,” said former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, ”probably knows Hillary Clinton better than I do,” to which former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani replied: ”Oh my!” Collectively, the candidates invoked Reagan's name nearly 20 times.
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NY Times
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| April 27, 2007 | - The nine Democrats running for president held a debate in South Carolina. Hillary Clinton faulted the people of Iraq for not making good on “the chance to have freedom, to have their own country” provided by the U.S. invasion, and John Edwards suggested that hedge funds could help alleviate poverty. Asked why he was at the debate, Mike Gravel, a 76-year-old who represented Alaska in the Senate from 1969 to 1981, pointed to the rest of the candidates and said, “Some of these people frighten me,” especially “the top-tier ones.” He singled out Joseph Biden for his “arrogance” and asked Barack Obama, “Barack, who do you want to nuke?” Obama replied, “I'm not planning to nuke anybody right now, Mike. I promise.” “Good,” said Gravel, “then we're safe, for a while.”
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WCNC
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| April 24, 2007 | -
Hillary Clinton said at a fund-raiser that her campaign would be similar to Harriet Tubman going back to free more slaves.
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NY Daily News
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| April 3, 2007 | - In Mount Pleasant, Iowa, Hillary Clinton accused President George W. Bush of “vetoing the will of the American people.”
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New York Times
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| January 25, 2007 | - It was revealed that Government Elementary School Number 4, the public school in Indonesia that Barack Obama attended when he was six, had a painting of Jesus on the wall. Fox News acknowledged that they had given too much credence to a claim by Insight Magazine that Hillary Clinton's campaign was investigating the possibility that Obama's public school was a madrassah.
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ABC
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| January 22, 2007 | -
Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she will run for President in 2008, and Barack Hussein Obama released a video on the Internet announcing that he has formed a presidential exploratory committee. It was reported that Obama had concealed that he was raised as a Muslim and had attended a madrassah as a child.
| Source 1:
BBC
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Washington Post
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| January 8, 2007 | -
Senator
Hillary Clinton said that “we want to be able to continue to export democracy, but we want to deliver it in digestible packages.”
| Source:
The New Yorker
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| October 23, 2006 | - John Spencer, a candidate for the U.S. Senate from New York, denied he had ever called Hillary Clinton ugly.
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Breitbart.com
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| June 27, 2006 | - It was revealed that Hillary Clinton's ancestors were English coal miners.
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Northern Echo
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| January 17, 2006 | -
New York
Senator
Hillary Clinton said that Republicans were running the House of Representatives "like a plantation." Republicans disagreed with Clinton, and Al Sharpton complained that she was stealing his material.
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The Duluth News Tribune
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| August 12, 2005 | - Jeanine F. Pirro, the wife of Republican fund-raiser and convicted tax evader Albert J. Pirro, Jr., announced that she would run against New York
Senator
Hillary Clinton in 2006.
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Newsday
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| June 28, 2004 | -
Hillary Clinton promised that if John Kerry wins the election, Bush's tax cuts will be eliminated: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
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Associated Press
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| January 7, 2004 | - Senator Hillary Clinton apologized for joking that Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis.
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CNN
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Bill Clinton's corrupt pardons continued to dominate the news; Senator Hillary Clinton chastised her portly brother for exercising “terrible misjudgment” when he accepted $400,000 to help a coke dealer and another felon obtain pardons from his brother-in-law.
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| December 26, 2000 | -
Republicans were upset about Senator-elect Hillary Clinton's $8 million book deal; concerns were expressed about the potential conflict of interest created by accepting money from a major media company with an aggressive legislative agenda.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Senator Hillary Clinton called for the abolition of the Electoral College.
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| October 10, 2000 | -
Hillary Clinton, alarmed by the violence in Palestine, decided that she had made a mistake after all when she attended a ceremony on the West Bank with Yasir Arafat's wife, Suha, and embraced her; Mrs.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Clinton administration officials denied that contributors to Hillary Clinton's
Senate
campaign were given special invitations to sleep over at the White House; the Clinton campaign said that only about 1/4 of recent guests had given money.
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| June 1, 2000 | -
Clinton won the Puerto Rico primary.
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New York Times
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| June 1, 2000 | - It was reported that Obama had offered Clinton a “negotiated surrender” that included a possible post as health secretary in an Obama administration.
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Telegraph
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| May 3, 2000 | - The Democratic National Committee determined that delegates from Michigan and Florida will be allowed half-votes at the party's convention. “At least slaves were counted as 3/5ths a Citizen,” read a sign at a protest by supporters of Hillary Clinton outside the Washington hotel where the decision was made. Demonstrator Larry Sinclair, a Minnesotan who has posted videos on YouTube alleging that he took drugs and had oral sex with Barack Obama in 1999 but failed a polygraph test about his allegations, handed out a pamphlet titled “Obama's DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: Murder, Drugs, Gay Sex.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
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The New Republic
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| January 26, 2000 | - Stanching rumors circulating in a widely forwarded email that he is a radical Muslim, Senator Barack Obama repeatedly professed his faith in an “awesome” Christian God and defeated former President Bill Clinton's wife in the South Carolina Democratic primary.
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Boston Globe
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New York Times
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