Bill Clinton is raising funds, and enlisting black support, for Hillary

NYT/AP: Bill Clinton Raising Funds for Hillary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 17, 2007

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's not-so-secret weapon -- her husband, Bill -- is raising cash and enlisting support for his wife's presidential bid, focusing in part on keeping black Democrats from bolting to rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards....

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Behind the scenes...Clinton has phoned major donors and hosted small fundraisers for business leaders and other backers. Next month, he will headline two major galas for her campaign in New York and Washington in which top donors are being asked to raise as much as $250,000 each....

More important to Sen. Clinton is her husband's reputation as a hero in the black community -- novelist Toni Morrison dubbed him ''the first black president'' in a 1998 essay. The New York senator will be fighting for support from a critical Democratic constituency against Obama, who is black, and Edwards, who has won praise from black leaders for his anti-poverty crusade.

The former president will take her place Sunday night at an annual gala in Albany, N.Y., honoring state black and Hispanic lawmakers. He also has reached out to black leaders in South Carolina, an early voting state in which blacks comprised 49 percent of the primary vote in 2004.

This week, Bill Clinton helped secure the backing of state Sens. Robert Ford and Darrell Jackson, who had supported Edwards in 2004. The Jackson endorsement was called into question after the Clinton campaign said it negotiated a $10,000 per month consulting contract with Jackson.

Not only is Bill Clinton considered one of the most savvy politicians in decades, he remains exceedingly popular. A Gallup poll released this week found that 63 percent of Americans view him favorably -- near his peak of 66 percent in 1997, just before the sex scandal involving White House intern Monica Lewinsky was revealed....

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Wheres-Bill.html

And Bill Clinton is a formidable weapon...

and I don't want to jinx it -- but I've been posting articles about Hillary, Obama and Edwards (all of whom I like) here, with surprisingly little bashing of any of them. It's a welcome change from a couple months back, and I hope it continues. Shhhhhhh.

P.S. Maybe (wishful thinking) people have realized that it does neither their candidate, nor our party and cause, any good.

keep it up, and hopefuly the mean streaks have run their course, and real dialogue can occur.

He's a great fundraiser because of his popularity. Is Hillary supposed to be at these fundraisers with Bill? It seems she is doing what Gore did in 2000, and distancing herself to show she's more then just the former First Lady and too be taken seriously. But doesn't stop her from taking a little help from the former President.

Not on the top of my list of people I want to be the nominee, but give credit where credit is due!

best.

I don't think the majority of people in this country are aware of how deeply troubled this country really is- We've been distracted by a senseless war focused on (the necessary) pleadings to STOP this war falling on the deaf ears of the White House. Meanwhile, America sits in stagnation and waits. We wait for a Democratic administration to pull us out of Republican swampland rejoining the rest of the World politic, attending to productive things that need to be done rather than sitting in defensive mode unable to advance out of fear of losing what we already have.

The historical nature of a husband and wife willing to devote their lives in assisting our survival and betterment, eventually overcoming the adversity facing America, is truly remarkable. I'm thankful they exist and are willing to give their all to the most arduous undertaking of setting this country right again. Knowing 4 years of Peace and Prosperity are attainable through Senator Clinton gives us hope for a better future and the future of our children's children.

and privilege that has led us into everything happening today.

There should NEVER HAVE BEEN a Bush2 allowed to even RUN for governor in 1994, let alone run for president in 1999.

But Bill Clinton made the choice in 1993 and throughout his terms in office to protect secrecy and privilege and to hell with the American citizen who wanted to be RESPECTED with the truth that this nation needed more than anything else.

Truths that would have PREVENTED an event like 9-11 and the regional chaos getting worse in the Mideast and oil regions.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0511-29.htm

Ignorance IS bliss, and, unfortuately, even many good Democrats prefer to remain ignorant and will look the other way rather than accept the truth of what has been done in their name but behind the walls of secrecy and privilege.

Oy vey.

I will side with an anti-corruption, open government Democrat ANYTIME, over those Democrats who are protective of secrecy and privilege.

happens at the snap of your fingers. I can tell you've never waged a fight against something or someone larger than life and been successful or unsuccessful. You consistently whine like a spoiled child, "Why NOT Daddy? It's the right thing to do, Daddy.." When you haven't walked in someone else's shoes and do not have command of all the factors in play at the time you thought it was politically expedient to do so-- For you, it's better to sit by the sidelines as you currently do and hope it will be done sooner rather than later, if we successfully elect a democrat for the presidency.

the time, and used to make the same feeble excuses about Clinton choosing to close the books to stop the collapse of the world economy. I really believed it then, as you do now.

Then I read his book, and instead of telling me about the choice he made and explaining it, he chose to DISRESPECT me and everyone elese who recognized the gravity of that time and its relevance to everything happening today.

You think after 9-11 that Clinton didn't KNOW that the full exposure of BCCI would have prevented it from happening? Of course he did.

against a FOE thats larger then life-

When you can prove you have the slightest notion of what it takes to WIN a fight on such a grand scale.
I'll be more than happy to respond to your ludicrous self-serving comments.

Until then, we will tolerate your incessant chirping. Although you may consider it rude and even ostentatious
if your comments are not addressed with the slightest modicum of urgency in suffering a little child her lollipop.

are doomed to repeat it.

Shame. Sell-out your country and your party for the 'illusion' of a win, that is what the coverup wing of the party does to the rest of us.

I'll take my chances with my picks.
and the responsibility that comes with it..

Sayonara!

as if it is an accepted price to pay for power.

:)

I'm really looking forward to the day the two move back into the White House.

can't wait for the dynasty. Maybe in '12 we can get Jeb into the mix too! It isn't just in this country that people have a cult of personality either. In the US anyone who is a Kennedy, Clinton, or Bush gets what they want or runs for office...in Cuba the Castro's are all very famous, In N Korea Kim Il SUng and Kim Jong Il, I am not comparing these three nations to one another...I just wonder why people everywhere in the world develope this cult of personality. Is it just fond memories of one carrying over to the rest?

and it will take a very long time to restore the image and prestige we've always maintained to once again say, we are proud to be Americans. Once the Bushes are out for good. I believe it to be almost impossible for any one of them to be elected to any high office. Of course, there is always the prospect of creative thievery to deal with. One thing we've learned. Never underestimate the desperation of your opponent. When the Bushes are involved, the law and stooping TOO low, are not enough of a deterrent for them getting what they want.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0511-29.htm

I certainly hope the NEXT Democratic administration cares more about honesty with the American people than about protecting secrecy and privilege and the Bush family.

The world can no longer afford for the Bushes to keep going free.

The last 8 yrs needed to go by, not only expose in broad daylight the prevalence of Republican corruption for what it is,
but making sure a Democratic Congress existed before undertaking a massive prosecution of Crimes committed against the country.

It couldn't have happened any sooner, seeing Congress has been under Repub control for the last 16 yrs. They aren't about to eat their own but have little compunction destroying Democrats who stand in their way of their self-serving GREED-

This is what we've been waiting for:

and covert operations.

Sunlight kills those powerful vampires who are strongest when they are surrounded by darkness.

The only reason they lost is because Poppy didn't know anything about Electoral Votes.
Poppy was under the impression the Popular Vote wins the election.

Weak.

maybe it's a "fond memory" of 8 good years sandwiched between (what will be) 20 bad years by 2008....

There are other names for cult of personality. A positive one is "leader" as in "has good leadership skills."
People drawn to or sometimes even asked to take on these roles because they have an ability to get people to listen to them. The characteristics that contribute to that ability differ with different people and surely vary with culture.

I am not sure Hillary is quite as skilled in that area as Bill. She can only lean on him so much.

to run against Jeb in 2016.....Because there are no other people qualified of the over 300 million people in this country to be president except the Bush's and the Clinton's!!

what are you offering as an alternative?

I like him very much..

Why isn't he getting more exposure in the news?

He's far too liberal politically and socially to have his messages pounded out by the ultra consertative media and their corporate backing....They'd rather point fingers at the most moderate democrats and call them ultra liberal....Keeps things in prospective...democrats think great, they are voting for a real "liberal" and the right-wingers are made to think, oh a "liberal" I won't vote for a "liberal"!

So the FDR liberal socialist progressive messages never get heard by the only real liberal running, Kucinch, just like last time in 2004. Kucinich's (and FDR) ideology scares the shit out of corporate America and everyone who hates unions and workers rights!

Doesn't mean I'll compromise my ideology...I will support Kucinich until he's beaten out by the democratic machines moderate candidate...then I'm forced to vote for them.

best qualified to provide it for them.

At present, that person happens to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I believe in the liberal socially progressive ideology of FDR...I won't settle for this huge rich icon shoved down my throat by the DLC and the media machine!

You can not FORCE people, many of whom's children are incarcerated in record numbers, to support a Corporate Crony as they themselves slide down into an ever lower economic status, i.e., like us non people of color who don't have at least 300,000 chump change to invest in the stock market's war machine.

Nope, despite all your money and political power DLC, you're continuing to figuratively piss in the wind. :blush: :P

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