Bill Clinton jets across the country and shoots hoops with a bunch of inner- city kids at the scene of a devastating race riot. A political slam dunk, right? Maybe not. For some of the wiser heads around Clinton, that campaign- style stop last week represented everything that's wrong with the President's self-described effort to "refocus" his presidency and win public support for his economic prescriptions. "A neat stunt for another time," says a Clinton adviser. "But the President traded baskets in the Los Angeles ghetto, where we've done about as much as Bush to improve things, which is nothing. Meanwhile,...
The Political Interest It's the Job, Stupid
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