Bhutto, Clinton and Chelsea in Pakistan in 1995.
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The Obama campaign is in a panic. Mr. Axelrod's reprehensible statement is meant to deflect the spotlight and rescue his candidate, because as people think about the implications of Benazir Bhutto's assassination one thing comes to mind and it isn't the leadership experience of Barack Obama.

Bhutto's death will "call into issue the judgment: who's made the...