Posted AT 6:28 AM EDT on 06/05/08
Hillary tries turning Obama into today's Adlai Stevenson
Hillary Clinton, with a little help from Barack Obama himself, is trying to make the Illinois Senator into an Adlai Stevenson.Mr. Stevenson, also from Illinois, ran twice for president atop the Democratic ticket, in 1952 and 1956, and got thumped by Dwight Eisenhower of the Republicans.
Mr. Stevenson was the intellectuals' darling. He spoke in rolling, long sentences. He ranged thoughtfully across a spectrum of issues.
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