Clintons launch campaign swing for Obama in Pa. -- Big Dawg and Hillary w/ Joe in Scranton Sunday!

[jefferson_dem]

Clintons launch campaign swing for Obama in Pa.
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race.

The nation's best known and most powerful Democrats for nearly two decades, the former first couple is getting used to a new role: cheerleaders for Obama, who vanquished Hillary Clinton last spring in a Democratic primary contest for the ages.

Whatever recriminations the Clintons may still harbor from that long battle seem to have been nudged aside as they campaign in earnest for the Democratic ticket.

The New York senator and the former president will appear with Obama's running mate, Joe Biden, at a rally Sunday in Scranton, a working class town that has assumed something of an outsize role in the presidential race.

Biden was born in Scranton and lived there for several years as a child, while Hillary Clinton's father grew up in the town and is buried there. Both Biden and Clinton have emphasized their Scranton roots to illustrate their connection to blue collar voters.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081012/ap_on_el_pr/clintons_obama

[givemebackmycountry]

1. My sister is going to be bummed...well kind of....

She's in California right now for work, and if she was in Pennsylvania (where she lives and is with in a 20 minute drive to Scranton) she would be there.

That is assuming the new family dog hasn't eaten the tires off of her Volkswagen Beetle.

(edited to add... I love my sister. And she's amazed I was able to pull the term "rolfing" out of my ass... LOL)

[redstate_democrat]

2. Obama pulling out the HEAVY MACHINERY on some GOP ass!!!!

:D

[jhain]

3. YES!

Remember the numbers with Bill & Kerry in Philly? The REAL numbers.

This is good news!

[Tatiana]

4. Hillary has a scheduled trip to Omaha, Nebraska!

I wish they'd send Bubba to West Virginia.

[Psyop Samurai]

7. LOL... I had the same thoughts...

...didn't see your post before I posted!

:thumbsup:

[Motown_Johnny]

8. Don't forget, Nebraska splits EVs.. this is a great way to force McMad to play defense

[Psyop Samurai]

5. Gotta hand it to Hillary...

She's got quite an itinerary. Even goin' for that Omaha electoral vote.

I still wish the Clintons could get West Virginia in line.
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Of course, it wouldn't be Hillary without something slightly unsettling. From the article:

"I think it is safe to say we have not seen more troubles at one time since World War Two," Clinton told a rally in Little Rock, Ark., Friday. "Probably no president will inherit more challenges that President Obama will, since Harry Truman had to take over from Franklin Roosevelt."

I was thinking more along the lines of Roosevelt taking over from Hoover.

[progressiveforever]

6. Hillary 2016! She will have earned it.

[ClarkUSA]

11. I think many voters will think Vice President Biden would've earned it by then.

I know I will feel that way.

[Metric System]

14. Of course you will.

[ClarkUSA]

15. And of course you're saving up to donate to Hillary 2012.

Meow.

[Metric System]

18. You are insane. Get over it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Closing the deal in PA in order to push hard in OH, VA, and FL

[doc03]

10. Joe will be in St.Clairsville Ohio Tuesday Oct. 14. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

12. I got a text from the campaign this afternoon and they will also be

in Horsham, PA (which is in Philly rim county Montgomery County) on Monday.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Oh boy.

[Beacool]

16. I wish I could have gone and seen them.

Well, next time.

One objection though to the article, "vanquish" is not the appropriate word when two candidates were almost neck to neck until the end. McCain vanquished Huckabee, Obama did not vanquish Hillary. Defeated yes, vanquished no.

[Hope And Change]

17. K & R!