Thursday, August 07, 2008

Bill Clinton to Speak at Democrat’s Convention

This should be fun. 

In a hurried move to put an end to the tensions between supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and those of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Obama campaign has offered former President Bill Clinton a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention, NBC News reported Thursday.

The Clinton’s have accepted the offer, and Bill Clinton will speak before the vice presidential running mate speaks, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reported.

(12) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2236 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. I think he should speak at the convention.
    I also think Jimmy Carter should speak as well, since we will have the same failed policies of Carter when Obama gets into office.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 07, 2008 at 2357 hrs


  2. Why shouldn’t the last President to balance a budget speak?  It’s a reminder that our “long national nightmare” will soon be OVER, regardless of who gets elected in November!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 08, 2008 at 0605 hrs


  3. A president who’s still really popular with party regulars across the country with the added bonus of not being a huge drag on the ticket—why wouldn’t he speak?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 08, 2008 at 0840 hrs


  4. I don’t have a problem with him speaking.  He’s a former president, after all.  It will merely be entertaining to see if he can control himself, since that was a problem during the campaign.

    Posted by Owen on August 08, 2008 at 0849 hrs


  5. The Clinton’s have accepted the offer

    Ha ha ha ha ha! MSNBC’s typos aside, talk about creative wording - substitute “engineered” for “accepted” and you’ve got one great “news” item!

    The DNC will have to pry control from Bill and Hill’s cold, dead, donor- and popularity-deficient hands. I look forward to the spectacle that the Dem convention will be.

    Posted by tee bee on August 08, 2008 at 1050 hrs


  6. I’ll grant that former President Clinton was occasionally ...umm…gaffe-prone during the primaries. You have to admit, though, that with a podium and script, he’s usually an exceptional speaker. I don’t really think “control” will be a problem during a convention speech.

    Oh, and tee bee: donor-and-popularity deficient? Certainly among most of the readers of this blog, I’ll give you that. But if you’ll recall, during the primaries, even the 3rd place Democratic finisher often received more votes than the Republican winner. I’m just sayin’.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 08, 2008 at 1149 hrs


  7. What night is Dick Cheney speaking to the Rep. convention…..?

    Posted by Gregory on August 08, 2008 at 1355 hrs


  8. Hopefully his speech will “go long” - didn’t he set some kind of record for length (hold the dirty thoughts, I mean the speech) at the 1988 convention?

    Anyway, if they schedule Clinton to speak before John Edwards, and then allow him to drone through Edward’s time slot, this situation will take care of itself (my bolds):

    One possibility involves the upcoming Democratic convention. By all rights, Edwards, whose endorsement of Obama received extensive coverage, should be a speaker at the convention. If he is not, then reporters might feel bound to explain why. And that would involve the Hunter affair, allowing journalists to tell their readers and listeners what happened. An event will have taken place — Edwards’s absence from the convention — as a result of certain allegations, and the news organizations might well break down and report the reason.

    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2JmMjY1ZWQ0MGZkY2I3NjIwZDg0ODc2ZTAzZmNmMTQ=#more

    Note to John Edwards - they use DNA to confirm fatherhood nowadays - log on and read this:
    http://www.bootsandsabers.com/index.php/weblog/permalink/one_in_five_fathers_wrongly_identified/

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 08, 2008 at 1552 hrs


  9. Dang, I should have consulted Recess Supervisor first:

    http://playgroundpolitics.blogspot.com/2008/08/john-edwards-is-big-smelly-liar.html

    Guess maybe the MSM won’t have to do any explaining.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 08, 2008 at 1613 hrs


  10. Oh, and tee bee: donor-and-popularity deficient?

    apc - I meant that although Hillary “ceded” the nomination and is no longer top contender (in electoral votes, which could change if the Florida/Michigan electors are seated) the DNC won’t be able to sideline them owing to support among Dems (and others), which probably won’t happen even after they’re long in the ground. Ignore Clinton popularity at thine own expense!

    Which goes along with donor-nondeficiency. The Clinton’s power to squeeze kabillions out of so many bought them the party fifteen years ago, and it too will force top Dems’ hands whenever they want to stray from their Clintonian tether.

    Bill will speak because they know the importance of their visibility/presence and want the slot, and the DNC would never allow Obama or anyone to deny them that. Too costly.

    Posted by tee bee on August 09, 2008 at 1002 hrs


  11. Crap.

    won’t be able to sideline them owing to support among Dems (and others), which probably won’t happen even after they’re long in the ground.

    That should read “...which probably won’t wane even after they’re long in the ground.”
    Sheesh.

    Posted by tee bee on August 09, 2008 at 1010 hrs


  12. Ok, fair enough. I was a little confused as to what you were saying. And you make a couple of good points, but the center of fund-raising gravity is staring to shift away from the Clinton/Bush bundling model, and a big part of the Dem growth over the last 10 years or so is new voters. It’s all going to be very interesting.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 09, 2008 at 1923 hrs


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