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Not With Him But For Him: What Bill Clinton Should Do

By Kleinheider Posted on September 11, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Talk Left has a good idea:

If I were running Obama’s campaign, I would have Obama campaign with Bill Clinton next week in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan for a few days.

I would go even further. I would say that Clinton’s role doesn’t (and probably shouldn’t) include that many joint appearances.

Clinton needs to go to the poor, rural and, most importantly, white areas of the swing states and make the case Obama seems incapable of making for himself.

Clinton needs to do what he did for his wife during the end of her campaign.

He needs to speak to small audiences, stay away from the national press as much as possible, and work those out-of-the-way, isolated places where Democrats, who are whether black nor highly educated, live.

If Clinton, can do a non stop tour of those kinds of areas he might well help accomplish for Obama what he failed to do for his wife.

If he were successful, it would go a long way to heal the rifts he and his wife made in the primary. He would restore his position in the party.

The only question is: Does he want to?

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2 Responses to “Not With Him But For Him: What Bill Clinton Should Do”

  1. Sean Braisted writes
    September 11th, 2008 1:37 pm

    That kind of campaigning would only be effective if he did it morning, noon, and night everyday for the rest of the campaign. That is unreasonable to expect of any surrogate, especially the spouse of the candidate you defeated in the primary.

    He worked harder for his wife than he did for Gore and Kerry combined.

  2. Bobby Blevins writes
    September 11th, 2008 2:18 pm

    I don’t think it’s a question of whether he’d want to but whether Obama’s campaign staff wants him to. It’s their show, so it’s their responsibility to assign and schedule surrogates like Bill. If they ask, I’m confident he will. If anyone out there thinks the Clintons want Obama to lose so Hillary can run again in 2012 they don’t know the Clintons (a) loyalty to their party and (b) their political savvy since knifing Obama in the back would insure Hillary doesn’t ever get her party’s nomination.

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