I don't think it would "overshadow" her, and I don't think gender is the point in this particular porposal. But I do understand your argument that emphasizing "business" is not how you clean up the mess W left behind, and using W's father does sort of have a ring of insincerity to it regardless of his own track record. In fact, I think Hillary's suggesting it is a symptom of her "Bush-Lite" side which people have been worried about.

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