the Sage from a Better Age<\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abLike Voldemort’s, Obama’s is a name no one dares utter and that includes Clinton speaking to Democrats.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAt a sunny, noontime rally on the campus of the University of Kentucky in Lexington yesterday, the former president made a stirring, well-argued case for Democratic Senate candidate Jack Conway and for Democrats generally without once mentioning Obama and rarely mentioning the presidency. It was as though we suddenly had only two branches of government.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbTo be fair, almost no one else at the one-hour rally mentioned the sitting president. And Kentucky is staunch Republican territory. We’re farther ahead in the generic ballot here than ever, GOP Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told me yesterday. President Obama was never popular here, even at his peak.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbStill, the eerie invisibility of the president is a telling commentary on the Democrats’ confused, divided and defensive predicament as they brace for the verdict of the voters on Election Day, Nov. 2. There was something odd and, if you’re a Democrat, depressing about a former Democratic president avoiding any mention of his Democratic successor.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbClinton sincerely wants to help out on the trail and certainly wants to avoid the accusation that he didn’t try to help. But his travels have turned into a personal victory lap that often makes him not the candidate he’s touting the center of attention. That was true here in Kentucky. The rally’s mechanics were mostly handled by the Secret Service; more to the point, the final (and therefore top-billed) speaker wasn’t Conway. It was Clinton. The Conway people didn’t mind. They were glad to have him.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbRail-thin but not frail, wearing a tweedy professorial sports coat and his signature rueful, knowing smile, Clinton was treated with a respect bordering on awe. His familiar mane of white hair, thinning now, was translucent in the sun, giving him an almost otherworldly look: the Sage from a Better Age<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
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