Is the "Caged" Strategy Working?
The "kitchen sink" strategy appears to be working--or at least it did this past Tuesday, but only when the former President is not the one doing the verbal tossing and done in tandem with a "caged" strategy? Can the most gifted politician of his era truly stay behind the scenes, off the national radar and subdued for long?
Bill Clinton adopts new campaign role
Beth Fouhy and Mead Gruver
Writers - Associated Press
March 7, 2008
This small Western hamlet, best known for a bloody race riot involving white and Chinese coal miners in 1885, might not be the first place one would expect to find the former leader of the free world.
But here was Bill Clinton in southwest Wyoming, two days before Saturday's Democratic caucuses, telling about 1,000 people how his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would establish 10 clean-coal technology projects if elected president in November.
"Some environmentalists don't think we ought to be doing anything with coal, but they're wrong," he said. "Think about it, you could become, maybe, the first totally energy-independent state in the United States."
For a former two-term president, such chatter may sound like fairly mundane stuff. But months into the Democratic nominating contest, he still stumps vigorously for his wife across the country, still finding the right role for himself in an unprecedented and high-profile experiment in how best to help her.
Her advisers credit him with boosting her support among rural voters, especially men. He also phones through a list of party "superdelegates" almost daily, urging them to back the former first lady. And he has raised considerable cash for her campaign, both at events with the well-heeled and in online appeals to smaller donors.
Anticipating the next major primary April 22 in Pennsylvania, the former president was headed to Philadelphia for a meeting with city ward bosses Friday. It was then on to Mississippi, whose primary is Tuesday.
What he doesn't do — anymore — is criticize Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. And he has not appeared onstage with his wife since Super Tuesday, Feb. 5.
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Bill Clinton adopts new campaign role
Beth Fouhy and Mead Gruver
Writers - Associated Press
March 7, 2008
This small Western hamlet, best known for a bloody race riot involving white and Chinese coal miners in 1885, might not be the first place one would expect to find the former leader of the free world.
But here was Bill Clinton in southwest Wyoming, two days before Saturday's Democratic caucuses, telling about 1,000 people how his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, would establish 10 clean-coal technology projects if elected president in November.
"Some environmentalists don't think we ought to be doing anything with coal, but they're wrong," he said. "Think about it, you could become, maybe, the first totally energy-independent state in the United States."
For a former two-term president, such chatter may sound like fairly mundane stuff. But months into the Democratic nominating contest, he still stumps vigorously for his wife across the country, still finding the right role for himself in an unprecedented and high-profile experiment in how best to help her.
Her advisers credit him with boosting her support among rural voters, especially men. He also phones through a list of party "superdelegates" almost daily, urging them to back the former first lady. And he has raised considerable cash for her campaign, both at events with the well-heeled and in online appeals to smaller donors.
Anticipating the next major primary April 22 in Pennsylvania, the former president was headed to Philadelphia for a meeting with city ward bosses Friday. It was then on to Mississippi, whose primary is Tuesday.
What he doesn't do — anymore — is criticize Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton's rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. And he has not appeared onstage with his wife since Super Tuesday, Feb. 5.
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Labels: 2oo8 presidential campaign, bill clinton, hillary clinton
Posted by Edward Headington @ 3/07/2008 11:06:00 AM
2 Comments:
Well, at least Bill hasn't called Obama a "monster" and accused him of being a cold shrew intent on doing whatever it takes to get into the White House, even if means killing somebody.
Oops, we all know the Clintons already did that. And Hillary kills cats, too.
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to backpedal Friday from comments she made in October suggesting Mississippi was a backward place for women's progress
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