Bill Clinton to give Obama forceful backing

[twaddler (imported)]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_ ... ll_clinton

I just liked the title. lol.. juvenile am i.

[jemagirl (imported)]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_ ... ll_clinton

I just liked the title. lol.. juvenile am i.

He's even giving his "full-throated endorsement" Technically it isn't sex, but it feels just as good.

Bill Clinton giving Obama forceful backing

By SCOTT LINDLAW, Associated Press Writer

1 hour, 51 minutes ago

DENVER - Former President Clinton, setting aside his own criticism and ambivalence, planned a full-throated endorsement Wednesday of Barack Obama as a leader ready to confront any challenge.

Clinton was trying to roll back a line of attack made by him and his wife in their primary battle, and taken up now by John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. McCain unloaded a new TV ad that contended Obama is "dangerously unprepared" for the White House.

Another McCain ad appropriated one of Hillary Rodham Clinton's own attack spots on Obama, one that showed sleeping children and a 3 a.m. phone call into the White House portending a crisis. It suggests Obama doesn't have the experience to rise to it.

But Clinton aides said that in his prime-time speech the former president would argue forcefully that Obama is prepared for the domestic, foreign and national security challenges that will arise in the coming years.

The wide-ranging, roughly eight-minute speech also focused on Democrats' policy achievements, including Clinton's own.

And it emphasized the need to elect a Democrat to the White House "to restore America's standing to what it was eight years ago," said an aide who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to pre-empt the president's speech.

Clinton's challenge was all the taller because he himself had questioned Obama's credentials.

During the primary race, the former president tried to raise doubts about whether the first-term Illinois senator had the experience to lead the country. He said Obama's opposition to the Iraq war was a "fairy tale."

Last fall, he dismissed Obama as totally unqualified.

"I mean, when is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?" Clinton said on "The Charlie Rose Show. "In theory, we could find someone who is a gifted television commentator and let them run."

Last winter, Clinton said that after "all the mean things" the Obama campaign had said about him, "I should be the last person to defend him. (But) if he wins this nomination, I'm going to do what I can to help him win."

Yet since Obama clinched the nomination in June, Clinton has seemed less than passionate about an Obama presidency, giving only lukewarm endorsements.

The Clinton aide said it was unthinkable that the 42nd president would give anything less than his unqualified backing Wednesday.

The ex-president has experience at the task of endorsing, passing the torch and then getting out of the way.

At the 2000 Democratic convention, Clinton boasted of his achievements and asked voters to help elect his understudy Al Gore as his successor. He ignited a frenzied celebration.

[Dave (imported)]

I wonder if the editor who wrote that title really thought about the double meanings entwined in it. . . ?

[kristoff]

I wonder if the editor who wrote that title really thought about the double meanings entwined in it. . . ?

I have no doubt that the headline editor knew full well. Just reminds me of the old weekly editor from northern Minnesota. A local woman died in a car crash. She was from Fertile, MN, crashed and died in Climax, MN, a few miles away. They are real towns, real names. "Fertile Woman Dies in Climax."

[tugon (imported)]

I have no doubt that the headline editor knew full well. Just reminds me of the old weekly editor from northern Minnesota. A local woman died in a car crash. She was from Fertile, MN, crashed and died in Climax, MN, a few miles away. They are real towns, real names. "Fertile Woman Dies in Climax."

I think we all want to die in Climax.

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

About seventy miles south of me, there is a small convenience store, not much more that a wide spot in the road on Highway 93, the place is called "Nothing, Arizona."

One day, I was driving my niece to Phoenix, and as I approached "Nothing" I mentioned that I was a bit thirsty, and asked if she wanted anything to drink, she agreed that it was a dry day and she wanted a coke or something. Then a thought occured to me, and I HAD to say it... "Oh this is GREAT! Now I can truthfully say, that I am a man who stops at NOTHING to get what I want!"

[Arab Nights (imported)]

"Oh this is GREAT! Now I can truthfully say, that I am a man who stops at NOTHING to get what I want!"

I have stopped at Nothing on my way thru Pahrump!

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

I have stopped at Nothing on my way thru Pahrump!

Now you can truthfully say that you "Will stop at NOTHING to get a piece of rump in Pahrump!"