Posted on 09/13/2008 2:51:46 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
THE former president Bill Clinton is to ride to Barack Obama’s rescue in the coming weeks by holding joint events with the Democratic presidential candidate.
The Obama team hopes the “Bubba factor” - Clinton’s appeal to white, working-class voters - will revitalise its campaign and staunch defections to Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee.
A source close to the Obama campaign said: “Bill Clinton is on board. He’s making all the right moves and he and Barack Obama are going to campaign together.”
The former president met Obama over lunch at his New York office last Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Clinton predicted that “Senator Obama will win and win handily” and offered to do “whatever I’m asked to help out”.
Obama needs the populist touch that Clinton can provide, senior Democrats believe. “People are tapping into Sarah Palin in the same way that they did to Bill Clinton,” an Obama official said.
A public display of unity could rally Democrats and bring some buzz back to Obama in the same way that big-name endorsements from Senator Edward Kennedy and John Kerry, the 2004 candidate, helped to relaunch Obama after he lost key primaries to Hillary Clinton.
Bill Clinton’s first campaign stop will be in Florida on September 29.
Matt McKenna, Clinton’s spokesman, said no decision had been taken yet about whether or where he would appear with Obama. “It is first to be decided and then to be announced,” he said.
Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said: “Maybe Bill Clinton can become Barack Obama’s Sarah Palin. He certainly needs some new energy and excitement for his campaign.”
During the long-running primary campaign with Hillary Clinton, the two camps were openly at war. Bill Clinton accused the Obama team of
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Well, there goes the Sleaze Vote.
Another sign of desperation.
Bill never broke 50% in the polls, kerry did almost as well as he did. He was lucky to have a three way field, sorry, in 1992 and 1996.So if he fires up the democrat base I’ll be shocked. Obama needs hillary by his side as the veep, not bill campaigning for him.
bttt
Where have you gone, Jabberin' Joe Biden?
That’ll really energize those Hillary voters! /s
Wow! With Biden AND Bubba at his side, Obama should be good for lots of Youtube hilarity.
and the question will be, where is Hillary in all this?
We’ll just see.
Just like the Obama camp was going to send out Hillary to body slam Palin - it never happened.
Nobody has left DC to lift a finger to help this guy get elected. Congress is on the ropes.
Isn’t this a sexist nose-rubbing for Hillary supporters in Obama’s rejection of her? So Bubba’s good enough to campaign with but Hillary is not?
Yeah...that’s the ticket...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDx4NZr2u4
Bill Clinton on Obama: Big Fairy Tale
(01/08/2008) The former U.S. president rants on Barack Obama’s free pass from the press.
thanks
yitbos
Well, we might ask Hillary how much he helped her. Oh yes. Didn’t I just read that Richard Mellon Scaife visited Bubba in his Harlem office a day or two ago?
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