McLean, Va.: Paul: What's the real feeling among congressional Democrats about Bill Clinton's actions on the campaign trail? I'm disgusted and fully prepared not to vote for Hillary if she gets the nomination (and I'm a Democrat!). Do they feel that people like me are anomalies or are they really worried? Will this push them into open support of Obama?
Paul Kane: I think Democrats up here on Capitol Hill forgot how just plain tough Bill Clinton could be. Remember, for the last 7 years Clinton has been party elder statesman, he's been the guy who jumped in and told people to cool it down, tone down the rhetoric. but, back in the '90s, this was the toughest Democrat alive. He invented the phrase "War Room". Now they're remembering that side of Clinton. Sure, they'd like to cool things down a bit. Then there are folks like Joe Biden, who I spoke to yesterday and who undertands the old mantra that politics is war without blood. What does Biden think of this fighting? He called it "patty-cake."
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