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Is there any? When he first announced his candidacy, the smart money was on the fact that once the Clinton machine got through with him, exposing every skeleton hiding in his closet, he'd emerge as sullied as any other politician. Tony Blankley declared in late 2006:

However, though Obama has certainly been a threat to her, she hasn't been able to do any damage to his image. The references to his drug use through surrogates and Tony Rezko by herself backfired. You'd think that if there was some dark secret in Obama's past, that the Clinton oppo research team would have found it, and if they found it, they would have used it by now. So, whatever one may say about Obama's liberalism, empty rhetoric, or blossoming Messiah complex, there's every reason to believe that he is the generally honest and decent guy he appears to be.