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AP Interview: Hill defends Bill on stump

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton, defending her husband's increasingly vocal role in her presidential effort, sidestepped questions about whether Bill Clinton's suggestion that Barack Obama had put a "hit job" on him was language befitting a former president.

"We're in a very heated campaign, and people are coming out and saying all kinds of things," Hillary Clinton said in an interview Wednesday. "I'm out there every day making a positive case for my candidacy. I have a lot of wonderful people, including my husband, who are out there making the case for me."

The former first lady's comments came as she readied a speech on ways to halt the global economic slide and stabilize U.S. financial markets. She previewed the speech in an interview with The Associated Press.

The interview came as Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife in South Carolina, which holds its primary Saturday. The former president suggested that Obama would win the contest there because of his popularity among black voters even as he lambasted the news media for its interest in the contest's racial and gender dynamic.

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