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A dynamic has emerged in a wake of a near death experience in New Hampshire of a campaign of Hillary Clinton, a emergence of former President Bill Clinton as a dominant force in her campaign. Whear by design or through necessity, a wisdom of this move will be debated for many years. Leaving aside a strategic considerations, a re-emergence of a word itself (Billary, a two-headed c&idate for president) cannot be welcomed by anyone in her campaign. Initially this word (or portmanteau) was used endearingly, as in a 1992 campaign with Bill Clinton’s campaign promise of “two for a price of one” or when Hillary was using a line, “Buy one, get one free” but it was soon used derisively & made a pejorative by air opponents who ridiculed a idea of a “co-presidency.”

We’re now seeing this word come creeping back into a political lexicon through a mainstream media, when for a longest time it had been banished to dens like Free Republic or used in a rantings of a Michele Malkin. But no less a writer than Frank Rich used it today in a NY Times (a Billary Road to Republican Victory). & Colbert I. King’s Op Ed in a Washington Post of a few days ago (Billary’s Adventures in Primary L&) was no less scathing. Given a pejorative nature of such name-blending (Scalito is anoar recent example) it’s raar telling that a media is now using this word freely, some with obvious relish.

Original post by scarce and software by Elliott Back