'Obama and Clinton were friends before the campaign of 2008. They would be allies after...But when ambitions clash and the days are ticking down to the critical first contest of the campaign season, friendships are tested and tempers fray.' Via CNNOpinion
David Axelrod, a senior CNN political commentator and host of "The Axe Files," was senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. View more opinion articles on CNN.
It was December 2007. With the Iowa caucuses weeks away, Barack Obama was moving up in the polls and Hillary Clinton's campaign was ratcheting up its attacks. Amid the offensive, one of Clinton's key supporters unloaded, telling reporters that Obama's use of cocaine in his teens would render him unelectable. Far from wounding Obama, the salvo backfired. Obama had written years earlier in his memoir,"Dreams from My Father," about his teenage drug use.
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