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Can we all agree there’s probably a little schadenfreude going on among the Clintons over Bill Richardson’s tumble out of the Cabinet? Richardson’s endorsement of Obama this spring is a slight Bill won’t soon forget. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

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Can we all agree there's probably a little schadenfreude going on among the Clintons over Bill Richardson's tumble out of the Cabinet? Richardson's endorsement of Obama this spring is a slight Bill won't soon forget.

Can we all agree there’s probably a little schadenfreude going on among the Clintons over Bill Richardson’s tumble out of the Cabinet? Richardson’s endorsement of Obama this spring is a slight Bill won’t soon forget.

Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Carolyn O'Hara is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.

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