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Hillary's Secret History

These recently released videos of Hillary presiding over a Wal-Mart grand opening -- along with Sam Walton himself -- show a few things: Hillary becoming hammily excited ("OH HOW NEAT!" she exclaims at one point, as well as the less giddy but just as hyperbolic, "I am so proud of this company and all it represents."), Walton condescending to Hillary (My favorite part is where he tells her, "I know you want to shop!" Or maybe* when he calls her a "legal person"), and, of course, Hillary illustrating that Mark Penn didn't exactly introduce the Clintons to the idea of questionable corporate connections.

* Sorry, I hadn't made out her calling out to Walton that she wanted to shop...

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