Posted on 03/31/2008 10:56:37 AM PDT by kingattax
MEDFORD, Ore. -- Former President Bill Clinton warmed up Oregon for a future visit from his wife, starting a two-day sweep through the state whose May primary has taken on new significance with the tightness of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"I think she's the best change-maker I ever knew," Clinton told the crowd of about 2,500 people at North Medford High School.
He was to make further appearances Monday in Portland, Salem and Bend. Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign said she is likely to be in Oregon the week of April 6.
Clinton noted his wife's work as a U.S. senator to get benefits for New York police and firefighters who breathed polluted air after the Sept. 11 attack in 2001 and how she reached across the aisle to work on curbing global warming with Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
In a reference to the loss of federal timber payments to Oregon counties since logging was cut back to protect the northern spotted owl and salmon, Clinton said it was wrong for the government to make changes in resource management without giving people compensation.
Clinton said every county in Oregon would benefit from his wife's support for small, biomass energy plants that burn agriculture and logging wastes. He added that the government would do better to support development of new sources of energy, which have a high potential for job growth, rather than to subsidize oil companies.
He said his wife had a strong commitment to veterans, dating to her eight years as first lady, when she asked to be "the point person" on helping victims of Agent Orange, an herbicide sprayed in Vietnam, and would work to improve care for personnel returning from Iraq.
Running an hour late after speaking to the Democratic state convention in San Jose, Calif., Clinton spoke for more than an hour, but took no questions from reporters or voters.
His visit came one week after Sen. Barack Obama also spent two days in Oregon.
At stake during the state's May 20 primary are 52 pledged delegates that will be divided in proportion to the primary vote, 12 superdelegates and another delegate to be chosen at the state convention.
With 10 primaries to go, Sen. Clinton has only a slim chance of overcoming Obama's lead in pledged delegates, even with an upset win in Oregon. Her stepped up her criticisms of Obama have led to worries she could hurt his chances to defeat McCain in the fall if she does not win the nomination herself.
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There was a time, a number of years ago, Billary would never go to Oregon. It use to be a very conservative state...........until Californian’s moved it.
On Behalf Of Wife, Bill Clinton Humps In Oregon
There, corrected it.
There was a time, a number of years ago, Billary would never go to Oregon. It use to be a very conservative state...........until Californian’s moved it.
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It has been a very long time since Oregon was conservative. Many decades. Just look at the history of their governors that they KEEP VOTING BACK IN.
Correct, Fred.
Here in DC we used to say that the biggest day of the week at the Clinton White House was Wednesday: Hump Day.
“I think she’s the best change-maker I ever knew,”
Hey the guy that drove the Good Humour truck when I was a kid could also make change - should he be president?
Who did he stump this time?
Didn’t she work at Waffle House ?
Amazing. Hillary is now taking credit for STOPPING the imaginary "global warming". We are safe now, and it's all Hillary's doing.
Last nights "earth hour" of switching off those 60 watt bulbs (and leftwing moonbat entertainers switching on those 100,000 watt amplifiers (to make money) entertaining global warming idiots gathered in the dark holding candles thus adding "deadly" carbon dioxide to the atmosphere at rates far higher than the generating plants (which stay running even if those lights are turned off)do.
Liberalism. It's a mental disorder. Rational thinking is one of the first functions the brain of a liberal looses the ability to perform.
Slick Willie gave hump day a whole new meaning. Or he just never knew what it was supposed to mean...
2. She changed the USA from being a manufacturer of flu vaccines to a nation which imports insufficient quantities vaccines from other countries at triple the cost.
"It has been a very long time since Oregon was conservative. Many decades. Just look at the history of their governors that they KEEP VOTING BACK IN."
The first guy's right. I still remember when Oregon was a conservative, solid red state. But hippies started moving in around 1969. And it has been downhill ever since.
Best STORY MAKER is what he should have said.
Best STORY MAKER is what he should have said.
I still remember when Oregon was a conservative, solid red state. But hippies started moving in around 1969.
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Appears we are BOTH right. 1969 was decades ago. And the same thing has happened to my state, California. A once beautifully conservative and premier state model, turned into a liberal dung heap over the same time span. It is a disease which now infects the entire LEFT COAST.
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