Ex-president Bill Clinton sounded confident on Monday when he told a Philadelphia crowd that John Kerry would win the White House and "make America the comeback country."
But yesterday in Florida, the recuperating heart patient sounded a little less certain.
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"I think it is slightly more likely that he will win, but this thing is tight as a tick," Clinton told the Magazine Publishers of American gathering in Boca Raton.
One reason for the uncertainty: Dubya enjoys "negative campaigning" in a way his father, who Clinton defeated 12 years ago, never did.
"It was a pretty negative campaign, but I don't think he enjoyed it the way his son does," Clinton told the crowd, in quotes picked up by the New York Post.
He also said Bush's decision to call himself a "compassionate conservative" was the most brilliant slogan he had ever heard in politics.
As is usually the case with the ex-president, the topic soon turned to his own travails while in office, specifically the Marc Rich case.
"I was slimed," he said of the bad publicity garnered by his pardon of America's worst tax fugitive.
"Maybe I should have pardoned him two years before I left office so I would have had a chance to fight back," he added.
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