Hillary really is dragging her husband down to levels I never thought I'd have to see. I know that her surrogates can be rather nasty, but does her husband have to participate in that type of crap? No, he didn't sink to playing the race card but someone should put a 'bullshit alert' before attempting to see or read what he said about Hillary and Barack.
From USA Today:
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Bill Clinton, who carried Nevada in two general elections, urged voters Tuesday to buck labor endorsements for Sen. Barack Obama and support his wife in Saturday's hotly contested presidential caucuses as the only Democratic candidate with the experience necessary to change the country.The former president trumpeted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's accomplishments while painting Obama as the "establishment" candidate who would bring only the "feeling of change."
"One candidate says you should vote for me because I've not been involved at all in the struggles of the past and therefore we need to turn over a new leaf and (try) something absolutely new. And if you want the feeling of change, then that is the person you should support," Clinton said in a 75-minute speech to about 300 people in a YMCA gymnasium.
"The other candidate says vote for me because I spent a lifetime making change, raising hopes and fulfilling dreams for other people," he said about the former first lady.
I know Bill is trying to frame his wife into a candidate that the voters want to see. Ultimately all candidate do this to some extent, but with Hillary it goes over the top. If anything, she is the "establishment" candidate. She, or should I say "They" want to have it both ways, that her experience is why people should vote for her but that she has been creating change, therefore continue the status quo (of change).
Maybe Bill and Hillary do not want to hear this, but the status quo has not been anything resembling change. Fiscal conservatism ruled Bill's Presidency with items like welfare cutbacks with no real reform and then NAFTA caused a huge mess for the American worker. Overall he was pretty decent, but definitely no agent of the type of 'change' people want to see.
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