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Posted at 10:48am on Jul. 1, 2008 *Becoming* Bill Clinton is no way to get his support, Senator Obama.

I don't think that you could pull it off anyway.

By Moe Lane

By all accounts, former President Clinton was and is one of those people who, five minutes after you've met him, you wonder why on earth you were ever infuriated with the man in the first place*. You seem to have a more, ah, ethereal charm.

Anyway, let's discuss welfare reform. You put up a nice little ad (H/T: Hot Air) where you talked about dignity, work, so on, so forth; and in the process, you had your people do a nice little rhetorical whirl that suggested that the legislation you signed reduced welfare rolls by 80%. A little fib, that, but we'll tentatively allow it for right now. At least you're pleased that the rolls were cut.

Yeah. About that.

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Gregory Wallace Report: Barack Obama aligned himself with welfare reform on Monday, launching a television ad which touts the way the overhaul "slashed the rolls by 80 percent." Obama leaves out, however, that he was against the 1996 federal legislation which precipitated the caseload reduction.

"I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare," Obama said on the floor of the Illinois state Senate on May 31, 1997. "Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems."

Oops.

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