Posted on 07/30/2012 12:41:51 AM PDT by moonshot925
Bill Clinton will have an up-front role in this summer's Democratic national convention, where he will make a forceful case for Barack Obama's re-election and his economic vision for the country, several Obama campaign and party officials have said.
The Obama campaign will be keen to take advantage of the former president's immense popularity and remind voters that a Democrat was in the White House the last time the American economy was thriving.
Clinton's prominent role at the convention will also allow Democrats to embrace party unity in a way that is almost impossible for the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.
Obama personally asked Clinton to speak at the convention and place Obama's name in nomination, and Clinton enthusiastically accepted, officials said on Sunday. George Bush, the last Republican to hold the White House, remains politically toxic in some circles. While Bush has endorsed Romney he is not involved in his campaign and has said he does not plan to attend the Republican convention.
Clinton will speak in prime-time at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on 5 September, the night before Obama formally accepts the party nomination. While the number two on the ticket often speaks that night, the Obama campaign has instead decided that Obama and the vice-president, Joe Biden, will speak on the same night.
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Remember when they had the press conf. On the Bush tax cuts and Obama just walked off? Do you think this is how he’ll run his campaign from now? The Clinton/Romney debates should be interesting!
Remember when they had the press conf. On the Bush tax cuts and Obama just walked off? Do you think this is how he’ll run his campaign from now? The Clinton/Romney debates should be interesting!
Of course he wil. And it will be all about him.
Attending Donks are on notice.
Keep your daughters at home.
Looks like the die job on Obama’s forehead needs a
touch up. X42 looks like he needs another trip to
the mortician.
And...what do you imagine Billy-boy wants in return?
Communist kenyan usurper and the impeached rapist traitor - typical dimocraps!
Couldn’t make this stuff up! Only the demmicrat party would have a rapist, draft-dodging, sexual predator, traitor as a speaker at their convention. They deserve him.
“THAT smells like desperation!”
Throw together two of the rankest turds America has to offer, and one thing is for sure - it’s gonna smell a lot worse than desperation.
Oh boy bring on the Hookers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are witnessing the demise of the Democratic Party.
They already regret choosing Charlotte for the convention venue, as NC is a right to work state trending away from the Dems in all the polls.
Dems all over the country are announcing they have something more important to do at that time, and the truth is their survival depends upon distancing themselves from Obama. And that was before “you didn’t build that”.
Now they think Clinton’s going to save their bacon. Delusional.
The party no longer has a place for an Evan Bayh or others who aren’t completely socialists. Their convention’s going to be a spectacle of cringe-inducing ineptitude and lack of enthusiasm. It will be characterized by a pervasive air of defeat, because defeat is where they know they’re headed.
List of speakers and speeches at Democratic convention
Bill Clinton; Speech “Lean forward and put some ice on it”
Lizzie Warren; Speech “Yes we can, say anything and they will believe”.
Jon Corzine; Speech: “How we can invest in the Future”
Brian Harrison (Solyndra’s CEO) Speech: “Selling what you didn’t build for fun and profit”.
Rod Blagojevich: Speech: “We can’t wait, for Jackson Jr’s check to clear”
Eric Holder; Speech: “A fair Shot, no explanation necessary”
Note all speeches are free but a photo ID is needed to enter convention hall
Thank you for a very hopeful post 32.
From your lips to God’s ears.
The unlikely union of two politicians that each had to surrender their law licenses...too bad Larry Sinclair wasn’t wearing a blue dress during his encounters with the gay blade. That would have made for greater irony...
I certainly hope so. But, when Billy Boy was ‘President’ and during all his embarrassing monkeshines, I was certain THAT was the demise of the Democratic Party. Instead, we get to endure yet a further and a truly more dangerous national nightmare.
I keep waiting for the Democratic Party to remember itself and return to the political process as the necessary and worthy alternate to the Republican Party... because honestly, our country will only work and evolve if BOTH parties express a wholesome and accurate representation of the nation as a whole.
As it is, both (especially the Democratic Party) have become a distortion of what America truly IS. The GOP is distortion because of the absence of a proper alternative to Conservatism in America and the Democratic Party has become the vehicle and the platform for the enemies of this country, it's become a conduit for outsiders to interfere in American domestic politics.... it has got itself lost in radicalism which only speaks for a minority OF a minority in America!
Smart move on Clinton’s part, dumb move for Obama and the Democrat Party!!! First of all, Clinton, even when he was POTUS had no legs as an endorser. Most Democrats won election on their own. Clinton did little to help or aid them, Obama is ten times worse. Obama is 100% radioactive!!! Virtually no Democrat wants to be seen near him, period!!!
Bill & Hillary Clinton know that Obama is not going to be re-elected, and....in additon, Obama will cause many Democrats to be defeated. The Democrat Party will be in shambles......and who will be the heros in 2016, why none other then the team of Bill & Hillary Clinton!!!
So.....Clinton does his duty, Obama crashes, the Clintons now have complete control, cannot be bad mouthed for not being loyal and call all the shots!!! The Clinton organization has this whole gig wired. The only “fly in the ointment” is if the Democrat Party does the really smart thing....and dumps Obama now, by forcing him to resign immediately. But......then the Clintons move in on 2012, with Hillary heading the POTUS ticket!!!
In all fairness, Clinton did show restraint against one enemy.
As for the economy, many of those jobs were created by the tech boom and Y2K. The jobs created for setting up all of those servers and modifying the old COBOL code for year 2000 would have been created regardless of who was in the White House. Bill Gates had more to do with the tech boom than Bill Clinton, but Clinton happened to be in the White House when it happened, and the compliant MSM worked hard to ensure he got the credit.
Welfare Reform also helped, but before signing it into law, he vetoed it twice after the GOP Congress passed it, before finally caving in an election year and signing it into law.
Balanced budget? Clinton didn't have to budget for the Cold War, and punted the expensive WOT to the next administrations. This and the tax revenue created by the tech boom had more to do with it than anything Clinton did.
You don't have to sell this to me. We need to sell this to the undecideds and Independents if we're going to counter the memory of "Clinton's economy".
You make very good points, all true. Clinton could have fallen in dog crap (which he did a lot!) and come up smelling like a rose. Lucky for him, huh? As much as I detest him though, he is nowhere near Obama’s level of corruption and deceipt. This marxist has to go!
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