Posted on 01/29/2008 10:13:57 AM PST by NormsRevenge
BLACKWOOD, N.J. - Former President Clinton said his wife would strengthen the nation's middle class as he did, and that she would be his favorite candidate for president even if they weren't married.
"These are tough times. We can bring America back. We've done it before," Clinton told a boisterous crowd Tuesday at Camden County College, a week before New Jersey and more than 20 other states hold nomination contests. "She will do it."
The event comes three days after Barack Obama won an easy victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in South Carolina. There, the former president was outspokenly critical of Obama, a tactic that some say cost his wife votes.
Tuesday, Clinton hit issues ranging health care to energy independence to the federal budget to college loans in his half-hour talk. On student loans, he talked about how his wife's policies would echo those he implemented.
And he addressed how as a senator representing New York, Hillary Clinton was among the first politicians to realize that 9/11 rescue workers could be at risk because of toxins in the air after the attacks.
"That's the person I would be here for if we never had been married," he said.
He briefly mentioned race, promising that if his wife were president, no one would be excluded from opportunities because of their race.
Also Tuesday, Sen. Clinton won the backing of California Rep. Maxine Waters, an influential member of the Congressional Black Caucus whose support could help blunt charges of racial polarization against the Clinton campaign in the South Carolina primary.
Clinton and Waters were expected to announce the endorsement via conference call.
In a statement, Waters praised the former first lady's readiness to tackle the nation's economic woes.
"At a time when the economy continues to worsen and so many of my constituents are losing their homes and their jobs, we need someone with the leadership and experience who can step in on day one to tackle the economic challenges our country is facing," Waters said. "Hillary understands the daily challenges that people are facing and she will fight for them everyday she is in the White House."
Issues of race and gender have come to the forefront of the campaign, pitting Clinton, who hopes to be the first female president, against Obama, seeking to become the first black to hold the job.
I guess we should thank Gore for the dot com boom. Afterall, he did invent the internet. /s
For some reason, that particular photo reaks(sp) of Monica.
What, tell us WHAT did Bill Clinton ever do that was so bloody good for this country? [that could not be rightfully traced back to the republican majorities?].
Was it --- appointing Janet Reno? Was it --- making kissy face with Yassir Arafat on the White House lawn? What? I'm stumped...
By putting us out of work with an enormous retroactive tax hike.
I don't doubt his "life partner" will do the same.
I thought you were going to say the low price of oil. It was Geo. Sr. who caused that, by evicting Saddam from Kuwait.
The only thing Hillary would be good at is an ex-senator and failed candidate for POTUS!
Did you ever wondeer what a Clinton white house would be like? You’d be reading the Natiional Enquirer each week to find out rather than the newspapers. This Sex Addict is sick, and in time his addiction will manifest itself again...
Huh? The US economy is still strong, we toppled two brutal regimes, federal income tax rates were greatly reduced... What tough times and bring us back to where? Perhaps back to that place were our US embassies around the world were blown up on a regular basis, or back to when al-Qaeda was crawling all over US soil in our flight schools preparing 9/11?
Golly, those were my thoughts exactly.
I was thinking China. As far as Bill being good for the economy in 1993. Yeah, he was. But Bill’s last name was Joy or Gates.
Like small pox.
Her idea of doing somethng good for the economy is
... rasing taxes...
... expanding unemployment benefits...
...and increasing other goverment give-aways
I fail to see how any of these are going to improve the economy.
Yes but she swings both ways!
Punishing the oil companies, threatening to nationalize them (”I want to take those profits...”), so we can pay $5/gallon or more at the pump.
Yeah, that would be REALLY good for the economy!
If Hillary had not married Bill Clinton, she might have become President of NOW or NARAL or a big shot in the ACLU, or perhaps even have gotten elected from a heavily Democratic Congressional district, but there’s no way she would be running for President of the United States. She’s running now because of name recognition and having the resources of the Clinton crime family backing her.
Pres Hillary would be good for ten thousand nightclub comedy acts.
We this, We that...we, we, we. In his mind he is running again and Hillary is just a front-piece, a minor nuisance and complication to overcome in his quest for a third presidential term. Imagine if she gets the nomination, he will be impossible to keep out of the campaign. He wants the spotlight and a place in the Oval Office again for sure. If Hillary would become POTUS (Heaven forbid) he will find a way to shove her aside and take over.
.....working on cankle to bio-diesel fuel converter....
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