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Hillary Clinton at the Abyssinian Baptist Church on Oct. 27

When Harlem's historic Abyssinian Baptist Church hosted an Oct. 27 campaign rally for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the choir performed an anthem with a gospel double-entendre: "Victory Is Mine." Clinton issued her customary denunciations of President Bush, while Congressman Charles Rangel and other Democratic politicians blessed her candidacy. Though pastor Calvin O. Butts III was also on hand, the chief preacher was in fact former president Bill Clinton.

He proclaimed his spouse "the best-qualified, best-suited non-incumbent ever" to run for president, and "the person who is most likely to bring the changes we need." Plus, "she can win."

This was nothing unusual for the former president, who during the 2004 campaign delivered a Sunday sermon in New York's Riverside Church that assailed Bush and lauded his opponent ("I like Senator Kerry. . . . I like him because he doesn't pretend to have all the answers").

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November 24, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 43

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