Bill Clinton speaks passionately for Democratic candidates (in Ohio)

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/election/election.php?story=221588

Clinton speaks passionately for Democratic candidates

By Mark Niquette
The Columbus Dispatch
Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:03 AM

Decrying what he called Republican "ideologues" who seek to concentrate wealth and power and divide Americans, former President Clinton rallied Democrats in Columbus last night to elect U.S. Rep. Sherrod Brown and other party candidates Nov. 7...

Clinton called Brown, a congressman from Avon, the "polar opposite of the crowd that has run our national politics for the last six years."...

Brown said he and U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland, the Democratic nominee for governor, plan to "make Ohio the silicon valley of alternative energy."...

The former president also urged the election of other Ohio Democrats, noting he especially wanted Jennifer Brunner to win the race for secretary of state "to make sure we count the votes," a poke at J. Kenneth Blackwell, current Republican secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate...



Bill Clinton visits Ohio as Democrats hope for election victories

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/15831722.htm

JULIE CARR SMYTH
Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Former President Bill Clinton rallied with Ohio Democrats Monday, pledging that if the party is restored to power on Nov. 7 its leaders will act to reunite the divided state and the country...

"You'll hear if you vote for Democrats they'll tax you all the way to the poor house and, on your way to the poor house, you'll meet a terrorist on every street corner - unless you happen to stumble over an illegal immigrant on your way," he said...

Clinton called on Democrats to reach out to independents and Republicans in the days leading up to the election, reciting a list of candidates converted to the party - including nine Iraqi war veterans, a CIA agent and an FBI agent - who are running as Democrats around the country.

"You should tell people that our founding fathers pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor not to have a more divided, sanctimonious country ignoring the facts," he said. "They pledged their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honor for a more perfect union."...




ON THE NET

Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate: http://www.sherrodbrown.com/

Mike DeWienie for U.S. Senate: http://www.mikedewienie.com/

"You'll hear if you vote for Democrats they'll tax you all the way to the poor house and, on your way to the poor house, you'll meet a terrorist on every street corner - unless you happen to stumble over an illegal immigrant on your way," he said...

That's probably the best way to handle their usual claims. Ridicule it to no end until it will hopefully become so ridiculous that they won't use it anymore.

I just missed seeing him in PA when I was home in Oct.

in Berkeley. Crap. Didn't get the memo.