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Clinton Comes Back to The Fray

Job Losses Targeted In His First Rally Since Heart Surgery

By Vanessa Williams andJohn F. Harris

Tuesday, October 26, 2004; Page A04

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26 -- A massive legion of Democratic faithful packed several square blocks downtown Monday as former president Bill Clinton made a late and long-awaited return to the campaign trail with a rousing endorsement of Democratic nominee John F. Kerry.

Clinton's physical frame was notably thinner, and his voice, too, seemed to be showing the signs of a slow recovery from heart surgery last month. The raspy exhortations were familiar but weaker, as the 42nd president compared his record on jobs with that of the 43rd president, and pledged that Kerry would revive Democratic policy successes of the 1990s.

Four years after being effectively banished from campaigning by the 2000 nominee, Al Gore, Clinton beamed with obvious delight at being put to work this time, as he and Kerry stood side by side amid roars from partisans.

"If this isn't good for my heart, I don't know what is," Clinton said. "From time to time, I have been called the Comeback Kid. In eight days, John Kerry's going to make America the Comeback Country."


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