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His concerns are principally the taxes that afflict upper-income earners like himself (he's worth several million dollars) and issues that flow from his evangelical Christianity, such as opposition to gay rights.
Like greed, materialism is a vice that tends to afflict those with more money than oneself.
Yet Clinton and his aides have said not one word about the endless, borderless, remorseless lawsuits that afflict everyone else . Clinton has learned a selfish lesson from Flytrap: I, the president, should not have to suffer through a barrage of litigation and investigation.
What about the less theatrical, but equally troubling, civil problems that can afflict people in any walk of life?
Autoimmune diseases afflict a large segment of the population in Western countries.