Posted on 02/12/2008 12:14:12 PM PST by kingattax
Fairfax, Va. (CNSNews.com) - In advance of today's Potomac Primaries in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., former President Bill Clinton led a rally for his wife's campaign at George Mason University Monday night.
Although polls show Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) trailing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in Maryland and the District, some analysts think Clinton has a chance in Virginia.
The "first thing that you want in a president is somebody who will keep big bad things from happening," President Clinton told the crowd at GMU. A president must also "make sure good things happen." The former president said the nation needs a "change-maker, and she's been one all of her life."
Clinton said his wife's candidacy was now "in some ways, an underdog campaign." But he noted that the Clinton for president campaign has raised $12 million online since last week when word spread that their campaign was low on funds.
The president emphasized that he would support his wife's candidacy, even if he were not married to her -- because of her position on issues and her record as "a change-maker" over the past 35 years.
Sen. Clinton's proposal to deal with the housing crisis is "by far the most aggressive" plan out there, he said, and her ideas to create "green-collar jobs" to improve America's infrastructure are critical to address short-term employment needs and the long-term threat posed by global warming, he added.
According to the RealClearPolitics average of public opinion polls for the Democratic primary in Virginia, Obama leads Clinton by 18 percentage points in Virginia.
Obama is expected to carry predominantly black districts in Hampton Roads and Richmond. He also has the support of Virginia's Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine, who is a national co-chairman of Obama's campaign and the first governor to support Obama outside his home state of Illinois.
Rep. Rick Boucher, whose 9th Congressional District covers Appalachia, and Rep. Bobby Scott, whose 3rd district covers urban areas from Newport News to Richmond, also support Obama.
Chris Beer, a leading Republican blogger in Virginia, reported that "Obama's support is widespread and across the state in terms of endorsements. Rural, Northern Virginia, black leaders, women, everyone. I expect Obama to blow up in Richmond and among rural black voters."
Beer, however, does not think Obama will win the Virginia primary today. On his blog, he told his readers: "Look to Massachusetts. Then look to Northern Virginia."
"As Massachusetts showed, endorsements mean nothing in this primary for Democrats," wrote Beer. "Real divisions along race and sex have developed in the Democrat primary .... I think the grassroots liberals in the party will come out for Hillary in huge numbers."
He also noted that Northern Virginia is full of federal employees who remember and like Bill Clinton, and that could translate into support for Hillary Clinton.
Seasoned political analysts agree that things may not go Obama's way in Virginia on Tuesday.
On Monday, Democratic political strategist and Fox News contributor Susan Estrich, as well as veteran political reporter Robert Novak, both wrote in their columns that Obama could be hindered by the "Bradley Effect" -- a phenomenon in which voters -- wanting to appear open-minded -- tell pollsters they'll support an African-American candidate, then support a white candidate in the privacy of the voting booth.
Pointing to strong and unexpected Clinton victories in New Hampshire and California earlier in this cycle, Estrich wrote for FoxNews.com: "If you paid attention to the gushers in the press and punditry in the days leading up to Super Tuesday, Hillary was on her way to the morgue, murdered by her crazy husband's loose talk, abandoned by young voters and women and anti-war Democrats, and anyone else they could think of. Not so."
"Partly, it's a measure of Hillary's strength," said Estrich. "But it's also a sign of Obama's weakness which, it seems, we who chatter for a living have been reluctant to speak about, lest we be tarred with having raised the 'race card.'"
Novak added, "In California's primary last Tuesday, Obama lost by a landslide 10 percentage points after late surveys showed him ahead by 10 and 13 points. (Read the commentary)
"Was this presumed 20-point reversal caused by the Bradley Effect, which has worried Democratic leaders about Obama since he became an obstacle to Hillary Clinton's majestic procession to the Oval Office?" asked Novak. "It is much too early for that conclusion, but the subject is in the minds and private comments of Democratic politicians pondering the stalemate for the party's presidential nomination."
“Bill Clinton Tells Va Campus Hillary Would ‘Stop Bad Things’”
ROFLMAO!
Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy
I think Bill’s muzzle is too tight . . . he’s speaking nonsense.
will she stop scary dreams?
how about panic stops on ice in traffic?
what about paper cuts?
stepping in dog poop?
I can’t wait.(she has a plan)
That would be real good, Bill.
Well, not necessarily “stop”,
but you won’t know they’re happening - we’ll sweep them under the rug until the next president has to deal with them.
If she is so good at changing things, why could she never change him and his womanizing? She can walk on water and change everything but the one who supposedly loves her. I consider that about as big a failure as one could have.
LOL - Besides the ridiculousness of these statements they seem to be a little short on the specifics of the Policies. Keep it up Bubba, as if you would know the difference between 'Good' and 'Bad' and for whom.
He better watch hisself... it is beginning to look like widowhood is the only thing that will get her the nomination with a pity vote.
or all she has to do is think so.
Yeah, like my tax bill. Make that not happen.
All my life, I’ve been looking for a politician who was in favor of good things and against bad things. Finally! I’ve found my savior! It’s Hillary!!!!!
..before or after she stops listening to herself?
That depends entirely on the definitions for the words “would” and “stop”...
When you stop evil with evil you’re left with...evil.
I guess getting a hummer isn’t a bad thing in Bill eyes considering Hillary couldn’t stop that.
Not only is this a lie but the exact opposite will take place should these folks become President once again in a not so subtle end run around the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution.
Wow! Is that what a President does? I had no idea!
Not only is this a lie but the exact opposite will take place should these folks become President once again in a not so subtle end run around the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution.
Bad things? . . . Like, infidelity?
roflmao
Hillary Would ‘Stop Bad Things’
Freedom
Liberty
profit
hope
growth
Constitution
The about is what both she and Obama define as bad things.
Think good thoughts and a little pixie dust and we can FLY!!!!!....................
I guess getting a hummer isn’t a bad thing in Bill eyes considering Hillary couldn’t stop that.
Rape either.
I just hit my shin on my desk drawer sooooo hard. Will Hillary make that never happen again??
Did he say it real slowly so the audience could understand?
I want a president who won’t engage in “bad touching”.
And "bad" and "good"...How exactly do they define "bad" and "good"? But all things considered, if she jumps on a homicide bomber just as he detonates, she'll have proven herself a woman of her word to me.
Well, Bill, if you'd exercise a little restraint, Hillary wouldn't have to stop those 'bad things.'
I know that her face could stop a runaway express train, so does that count for her being able to “stop bad things”?
Eddy Arnold
Make the World Go Away
(words & music by Hank Cochran)
Make the world go away
Get it off my shoulder
Say the things we used to say
And make the world, make it go away
Do you remember when you loved me
Before the world took you away
Well if you do, then forgive me
And make the world, make it go away
Make the world go away
Get it off my shoulder
Say the things we used to say
And make the world, make it go away
Now I’m sorry if I hurt you
Let me make it up to you day by day
And if you will please forgive me
And make the world, make it go away
Make the world go away
Get it off my shoulder
Say the things we used to say
And make the world, make it go away
I’ve said before that the widow Clinton would win the Presidency.
Ah, but can she stop the voices?
Wow she’s amazing! How come she couldn’t stop you Bill? You bad thing you!
She couldn’t stop a “bad” thing like his impeachment and disbsarment.
Sure Bill nothing bad happened during your 8 years of looking the other way.
Bill assumes anybody listening to him has the IQ of a child, since they elected him twice. Meanwhile susan estrogen projects her own liberal racism onto everybody else by claiming RATS will pretend to like obama but secretly not vote for him.
moar funny pictures
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P.S. And ice cream is delicious!
moar funny pictures
I thought there was no good and bad in the age of relativism.
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P.S. And ice cream is delicious!
OMG!!! LOLOLOL
“The “first thing that you want in a president is somebody who will keep big bad things from happening,” President Clinton told the crowd at GMU. A president must also “make sure good things happen.”
Is George Mason University a school for the developmentally challenged? Clinton is sure talking like it is.
OMG!!! LOLOLOL
“Bill Clinton Tells Va Campus Hillary Would ‘Stop Bad Things’”
ROFLMAO!”
Hillary is Glenda the Good witch don’t ya know. All the American people have to do is click their heels together and say “terrorism begone” and all the Jihadis that want to kill us will just disappear.
Given what we know of the Clinton’s and Obama, I expect them to distract everybody from the fact that they are incompetent and dangerously blinded by self-interest and unrealistic philosophies by prosecuting any and every Republican they can for anything they can throw at them, and the MSM will blow every little thing out of proportion and ignore the fact that such behaviors aren’t just common among politicians, but are more prevalent among Democrats.
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