April 21, 2008
WJC To PA: Send A Loud Message Tmrw
ARNOLD, PA -- Bill Clinton is making a simple case for his wife on the eve of tomorrow's Pennsylvania: Ignore the hoopla and vote for the candidate "who's in it for you."
"This election … is too big to be small," he told a crowd from the front porch of a supporter's home here. "Hillary can be nominated and be elected if Pennsylvania sends a loud message tomorrow, that we don't care about how much money was spent, we saw the debate, we heard the speeches, we've watched this woman for years, we want a leader we can count on."
Earlier, Clinton gave a hurried speech at a high school in Greensburg, where many of the students on hand seemed more interested in talking to each other than listening to the former president of the United States. Still, Clinton talked about how the support of people in small towns has sustained his wife's bid.
"They thought they had her after Super Tuesday, because even though she won most of the states, she was flat broke," he said. "So we had a whole February where she lost these caucuses, one after the other. And then people like you figured out she didn't have any money, and over 300,000 Americans sent her $30 million dollars. … They said, 'Nope, she's our girl, we don't want her to quit, we want her to stay in there, we will help her.'"
And one by one, he listed some of the campaign ads from Barack Obama. He claimed the recent health care spot has been "universally attacked, even by people who are for him" because it is wrong.
"Any politician who has a triple digit IQ can stand up and get applause line after applause line after applause line talking about what's wrong," he said. "But a leader has to set things right. … And in the end, the leadership you need is people who can take the ideas that are discussed in a campaign and turn them into positive changes in other people's lives."
(NBC/NJ's MIKE MEMOLI)
Posted at 02:09 PM
Comments
Any politician with a triple digit IQ can
fool enough voters to be elected twice....
but his wife?...that's another story. I guess
political savvy isn't incliuded in
"community property". The dame just doesn't have
it.
hombre | 04.21.08 04:36 PM
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Bill's reputation continues to swirl around the toilet bowl. The flush has been made already. All that remains is for the imperial Clinton era to at last disappear.
W Action | 04.21.08 08:02 PM
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"even though she won most of the states..."
That's just wrong. Obama won the most states on Super Tuesday.
maineDem | 04.21.08 11:23 PM
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