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...deep and constantly near the surface; she is given to weeping and keening when she sees the pain of others. June (Alicia Keys), a teacher, is the no-nonsense one. With her high forehead, Afro coiffure and commanding hauteur, she is a preview of militant black women like Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis - and the least maternal of the Boatwright brood...
...When it comes to politics, the Clinton philosophy is simple: It's war, and wars are for winning. Bill put it this way, back in 1981: "When someone is beating you over the head with a hammer, don't sit there and take it. Take out a meat cleaver and cut off their hand...
...With her presidential hopes at stake in Texas and Ohio, Hillary Clinton reached for the cleaver. Her campaign made good on its promise to throw "the kitchen sink" at Obama, and that paid off with clear popular-vote victories in both states. What's more, she said, "I'm just getting warmed...
...foundation decades deep. She and her husband occupied the governor's mansion in next-door Arkansas for most of the 1980s, and then Bill Clinton carried Missouri in both of his presidential victories. Last year, Hillary Clinton picked up the endorsement of Kansas City's powerful Rep. Emanuel Cleaver...
...Obama is also a neighbor, hailing from Illinois, and he has the support of Cleaver's St. Louis counterpart, Rep. William Lacy Clay. With the Clay and Cleaver machines pulling the big cities in opposite directions, women and young people may make the difference. Obama has some big guns helping him with the former audience: Sen. Claire McCaskill, the state's ranking Democrat, has joined her popular mom, Betty Anne, and former Sen. Jean Carnahan in pro-Obama TV and radio advertisements...