Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Clinton Comes to Indiana in a Populist Package

Sen. Hillary Clinton is a multimillionaire who has graced the cover of Fortune magazine with the glitzy headline "Business Loves Hillary!"

Clinton, Obama criss-cross North Carolina and Indiana before Tuesday's primary.

The former first lady has accepted millions in campaign donations from Wall Street, and she has a solidly liberal voting record in the Senate.

But on the campaign trail these days, Clinton, D-N.Y., has repackaged herself as a working class hero, while branding Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. — who grew up working class with a single mother sometimes on food stamps — an elitist.

Main Street Clinton

"There is a big difference between us and the question is this: Who will understand what you are going through, and who will stand up for you?" said the Wellesley and Yale Law School alumna, whose family reported more than $109 million in income since leaving the White House in 2001.

Many of the positions and rhetoric would have been unimaginable for Clinton right before the Iowa caucuses, when she worked to appease antiwar liberal Democrats.

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