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"FacebookPinterest\n\nSo you're stuck in line at Chipotle, bored, behind on your news-reading\u2014yet not exactly jonesing for another rehash of the headlines. Enter the Hunger Reads, our daily compendium of the political stories we think you'll actually enjoy reading. (At least more than reading the take-out menu over and over.)\n\nFrenemies? Or Political Allies?: Let's Be Friends, Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker\n\nRegardless of Bill Clinton's personal feelings about Obama, it didn't take him long to see the advantages of an Obama Presidency. More than anyone, he pushed Hillary to take the job of Secretary of State. \"President Clinton was a big supporter of the idea,\" an intimate of the Clintons told me. \"He advocated very strongly for it and arguably was the tie-breaking reason she took the job.\" For one thing, having his spouse in that position didn't hurt his work at the Clinton Global Initiative. He invites foreign leaders to the initiative's annual meeting, and her prominence in the Administration can be an asset in attracting foreign donors. \"Bill Clinton's been able to continue to be the Bill Clinton we know, in large part because of his relationship with the White House and because his wife is the Secretary of State,\" the Clinton associate continued. \"It worked out very well for him. That may be a very cynical way to look at it, but that's a fact. A lot of the stuff he's doing internationally is aided by his level of access.\"\n\n More Than Just a Man with Some Sound Bites: Joe Biden Isn't Finished, John Heilemann, New York Magazine\n\nBut then Mitt Romney pulled a rabbit from his hat and upended those expectations. In filling his V.P. slot with the 42-year-old cheesehead chair of the House Budget Committee and author of the seminal governing document of the congressional wing of the Republican Party, Romney injected a bracing dose of youth, substantive audacity, political risk, and partisan glamour (or what passes for glamour on the right) into a race that had been teetering on the edge of terminal torpor. Suddenly, with the spotlight trained on Ryan, whose speech last week at the Republican convention roused the hall and popped off the TV screen, Biden was bathed in luminescence, too. Suddenly, amazingly, the undercard mattered\u2014with next month's toe-to-toe between the No. 2's elevated from a sideshow to a marquee event.\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012\n\n\n\nGQ's Insta-vention 2012, DNC Day 1\n\nPlease Don't Tease the Mormon Democrats\n\nWe Went Out Last Night: Turtle Cam Edition\n\nHow Do These Delegates Love Michelle Obama? It's Difficult to Count the Ways\n\nFollow us @GQPolitics on Twitter for more updates on the campaign trail"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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