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Which one is the real Hillary?

By Sher Watts Spooner - Jan 11th, 2008 at 3:06 pm EST

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Let's see. The Clinton campaign has been bragging all along that she has 35 years of experience, even though she's held elective office for only 7 years (compared with Obama's 12).

Then in Iowa, they put her on a "likability tour."

Then the day before the New Hampshire primary, she suddenly "found her voice" (makes you wonder what she had been doing for all of those 35 years, doesn't it?).

And now, according to ABC News (via Steve Benen at the Carpetbagger Report), the Clinton campaign is going to be rebranded once again:

* ABC News: “The Texas advertising guru and branding whiz who spent most of October on a spiritual soul quest trying to reconnect with ‘the heart of America’ has been tapped for a bigger role in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Roy Spence, 60, a longtime friend of the Clintons, is the quirky Austin-based advertising legend who coined the phrase ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ and developed the Southwest Airlines slogan: ‘You are now free to move about the country.’ He was with Clinton at her Chappaqua, New York home yesterday, after she flew in overnight from New Hampshire and met with her team to develop a campaign strategy for the next four weeks of key primaries.” Spence will reportedly now have a major role in “rebranding” Clinton’s message.

Hmm. Which one are we supposed to believe?

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