Hillary Clinton has admitted her husband Bill's hard-charging campaign tactics went overboard, but chalked the ex-president's fiery broadsides up to love and a chronic lack of sleep.A day after rival Barack Obama trounced her in the South Carolina primary, the former first lady also mounted a vigorous defence of the two Clinton White House terms, which Senator Obama has said did not spark transformational change.
Senator Clinton was asked on CBS television's "Face the Nation" whether her husband was "out of control" after he took the Illinois Senator, and the media to task, during a foul-tempered week-long campaign. "You know, my husband has such a great commitment to me and to my campaign," the New York Senator said. "He loves me ... you know, husbands and wives get out there and work on each others' behalf."
She blamed the tensions of the tight battle for the party's presidential nomination "Maybe he got a little carried away. You know, that comes with a hard-fought election," she said. "It also comes with sleep deprivation which I think is marking all of us, our families, our supporters," said Senator Clinton, who herself is running low on sleep, as she jets back and forth across the country.
Senator Clinton said her husband would remain a premier member of her campaign team as she heads into 22 critical nominating contests on 'Super Tuesday' - February 5 US time - though it was unclear if the ex-president's campaign style would change.