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Obama, Clinton together at last

Posted by Scott Helman, Political Reporter October 30, 2008 12:14 AM

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KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- Barack Obama's appearance with Bill Clinton last night in Kissimmee was a marquee event in Florida, where local TV networks planned to carry it live on 11 p.m. newscasts. It was also something of a love-fest, with Obama repeatedly praising Clinton's leadership in the 1990s, and Clinton praising Obama as the 21st-century leader America needs.

"In case all of you forgot, this is what it's like to have a great president," Obama said to 35,000 chilly people at a park here, outside Orlando. "Florida, I think you all agree with me that we all wish the last eight years looked more like the Clinton years."

The two men were not on the best of terms during the primaries, as Obama battled the former president's wife, Hillary Clinton. But last night they were all smiles as they crested the stage together. Clinton saluted the giant crowd, before Obama put his hand on Clinton's back as they walked to the podium.

Clinton praised what he called Obama's steady leadership during the economic crisis, and he defended Obama against John McCain's charges that his tax plan would "redistribute" wealth. Clinton said Republican leadership in the White House the last eight years had done just that, giving the wealthy even more than they had when he left the Oval Office.

"Don't tell me about redistribution," Clinton said.

"Folks, we can't fool with this," he continued. "Our country is hanging in the balance. We have so much promise and so much peril. This man should be our president."

Clinton also praised the diversity of the crowd, although he did so in a somewhat head-scratching way.

"Look at this crowd! It's not only big it is highly diverse," he said. "You've even got a few old gray-headed white guys like me. You haven't shut my demographic out yet. This is America's future."

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WAKE UP FOLKS! Is it $250, $200, or $150 for a tax reduction. The numbers keep changing just like everything else he has said. Due to his recommended high business taxes we can all look forward to being laid off. The silver lining is that we will get his promised tax refund.

Posted by Keeps Changing October 30, 08 12:42 AM
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I always thought Bill's Sister Souljah slam and his racial dismissing of Obama's NC victory was coldy calculated. I don't really get this one.

Posted by BillyBobClinton October 30, 08 12:44 AM
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America demand they take this hanging down. This happens in Muslim countries with our flag and Presidents all the time. how would you like to see yourself and your children hung in this fashion. McCain is a war hero, Palin is an American mother. How do you think their children feel? If Obama doesn't mind babies being killed in abortions maybe he isn't sensitive to hanging. America demand this be taken down or you or your family could be next. This country needs love not hate, but sometimes we have to fight for our American values.

Posted by Jim October 30, 08 12:47 AM
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obammer hangs with terrorists.

Posted by Osamabama October 30, 08 01:05 AM
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Ummm...all I remember about Clinton's term is me paying more taxes than I've ever paid...while barely floating the bills, a church in Texas with dozens of women and children inside being burned to the ground by his federal forces, and a stain on a dress.

Posted by sybredeth October 30, 08 01:06 AM
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What a different world we live in today. The government owns banks, in the presidential campaing the Democrat outspends the Republican 2-1 (or more), and the MSM is in the business of campainging.
The countrry is $11T (not to mention the $40T the government owes retiring baby-boomers) in debt and neither candidate or the media is talking about balancing a budget.. Instead we are throwing out a president who debt spent like no other and we are replacing him with......................A TRUE beliver in big government.

Does anyone anywhere see anything wrong with this picture?

Posted by Tom Kingsley October 30, 08 01:07 AM
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I see you all have not lost your fight :

GOOD! Because we have a lot to do. You! (the American people) are going to have to take back control of your elected government at every level, and set your government back on the right path of service to you, and the greater good of the World.

Barack Obama and the democrats are your best hope of doing that now. Tell your family, friends, and everyone you know to support them as best they can. Because the Bush McCain vote fraud, vote cheating, vote buying, vote manipulation machine is already hard at work to cheat you again. And we all know what a disaster that has been the past 8 years of Bush McCain.

Barack Obama and the democrats will need all the power you can give them at every level of government (Federal, State, County, and local City elected governments). Obama and the democrats will have an enormous mess to fix for the American people, and the rest of the World. A mess caused by the corrupt Bush McCain administration.

You see, starting back in 2000, and before 911, it was mostly the Republican governors, Republican legislatures, and county elected Republican officials that conspired with the corrupt Bush McCain administration to raise college, and university tuitions by the fastest, and highest rate increases in American history. Some state tuitions went up by as much as a WHOPPING! 30% in one year.

The reason the Bush McCain administration did this was to force struggling working class kids into the military to pay for the sudden jump in tuition. Which was forced on them by the corrupt Bush McCain administration, and their corrupt Republican Governors, and republican controlled state legislatures.

See, Bush McCain had plans to get us into all these immoral, foolish, criminal, and unnecessary wars from the start. So they could use these wars to seize power, and later to get reelected. But, for their evil plan to work they needed more volunteer soldiers struggling to pay for an education whose blood they could spill to help them seize more power. Remember Bush McCain's "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!" theatrics.

The exploitation, and lost lives of these finest Americans is despicable, disgusting, immoral, corrupt and criminal. And it makes me SICK, and ANGRY!

You will have to vote for Obama, and the democrats in overwhelming numbers to overcome the Bush McCain vote fraud machine. Vote early if you can. Then help your fellow Americans cast their votes now, and on through election day. Vote for Obama, and the democrats like your life, and the lives of your loved ones depends on it. Because it does. You will not survive 4 more years of "Let Them Eat Cake" Bush McCain, and their republican allies.

Just look at the mess we have now.

You can fix this mess with your votes for Obama, and the democrats. And REMEMBER, no matter which of us may stumble or fall, the rest of you must continue to surge forward for Barack Obama, and the democrats, and for your-selves most of all. The children, and the World are counting on us.

It's in your hands now. And I know you will get it done.

God bless all of you.


JACK SMITH - WORKING CLASS... :-)

Posted by jacksmith October 30, 08 01:11 AM
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GIVE ME STUPID OR GIVE ME LIBERTY

Posted by skmj October 30, 08 01:12 AM
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I watched that and Obama's infomercial. If you play back the audio from the infomercial backwards, you can hear Obama issuing instructions to his terrorist cells in the U.S.

;c)

Posted by Tom October 30, 08 01:28 AM
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Even though I am not an American but I was amazed to see this two men as your heading goes" political intelligence "together. With this three wise men Barack,Bill Clinton and Joe Biden America will retrieve all what is lost.

Posted by Aggrey October 30, 08 01:29 AM
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Hurray for the Clinton's to step up and put their differences with Obama aside and look for what the Democratic Party and America needs at this time. We don't need Karl Rove/Cheney/Bush divisiveness, LIES, CORRUPTION, SPECULATION, FEAR MONGERING, WORLD HATRED, nor BULLY tactics, we need to stand UNITED against the minions of EVIL which has become the mutated Grand Oil Party.

Let it be said, Senator John McCain has been a despicable candidate for president. Who will be in a John McCain administration to America?

Posted by Jerry, TEXAS October 30, 08 01:47 AM
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Redistribute is what Alaska did Sara taxed big oil and gave a rebate to the people. Is she a socialist?

Posted by Ameesh Bhandari October 30, 08 08:37 AM
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Hurray for the Clinton's to step up and put their differences with Obama aside and look for what the Democratic Party and America needs at this time. We don't need Karl Rove/Cheney/Bush divisiveness, LIES, CORRUPTION, SPECULATION, FEAR MONGERING, WORLD HATRED, nor BULLY tactics, we need to stand UNITED against the minions of EVIL which has become the mutated Grand Oil Party.
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Jerry, all this evil was done because the Democrats in the Congress were complicit and went along with the Bush agenda instead of opposing it. Check out how the Democrats voted in the Congress over issues like
1. Iraq war,
2. continued funding of the Iraq war,
3. FISA,
4. illegal domestic spying,
5. approval of conservative judges,
6. impeachment proceedings against Bush/Cheney for their law-breaking acts.

Did the Democrats filibuster when they were in the minority? How many times? How did Obama vote on some of these issues when he was in the Senate?

Posted by Amit October 30, 08 11:44 AM
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Amit, Obama voted:
1. for an exit strategy in Iraq
2. tie funding to that strategy
3. against FISA twice, for the final bill
4. against illegal spying
5. against Alito and Roberts
6. no impeachment for him to vote on

He is not ALL Democrats. He is one guy and you should already be informed how he voted.

Posted by Obama's Record October 30, 08 03:38 PM
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If you carefully watched who started this economic crisis, it was the democratic executives in the Fannie & Max, but I blamed every politicis of all parties in Washington for waiting for the last minute to act.
But the most important issue in this election is "rights of the unborn." May be Obama forgot why Martin Luther King was killed while fighting " for the life and freedom of the blacks." God-imaged unborn are spiritual beings and gifts from God , NO ONE can take away from us (born and unborn human being).

Posted by Rev. Dcn. Avaletalia M Hunkin October 30, 08 08:58 PM
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If LIFE is our main concerns for economic crisis, than the UNBORN who are God-image spiritual being wants to come to HUMAN LIFE like all of us. Do not let the USA president exercise his human power to deal with GOD'S POWER.

Posted by Rev., Dcn. Avaletalia MH October 30, 08 09:28 PM
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