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Bill Tells Crowd Hill Can Win; Checks Will Help
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ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: With the Pennsylvania primary right around the corner, former President Bill Clinton is focusing his attention on the state, and appealing to Pennsylvanians for their votes - and maybe a bit of their money as well. As Clinton travels around the suburbs surrounding Philadelphia today, he is reminding voters that his wife can not only win their home state, but win the nomination as well.– I want to tell you this. The last thing I want to say. Anytime you hear somebody telling you you oughta, it's cause they're afraid you won't. Anytime you hear somebody tell you you can't win, it's 'cause they're afraid you will. So I want you to get out there and work for her," Clinton told a crowd in Coatsville, PA.
"I believe if Pennsylvania gives her a big victory she can win this nomination. Let me just say this. Let me tell you this. Anytime
Clinton went on to tell the crowd that they shouldn't pay attention to the fact that Senator Barack Obama is massively outspending Hillary in the state.
"I want to say one other thing. She can win being outspent. The first two weeks of this television campaign she was outspent five-to-one on television. But she can’t be blown out. So the other thing you can do besides vote for her and make calls for her and give the people the reasons I gave you, is if you know somebody that can send ten dollars or five dollars or fifteen dollars on the Internet, tell them to go to Hillary Clinton.com and do this," Clinton asked the crowd.
The need for campaign cash has not been a main focus in the former President's speeches since the days of the Potomac primary states, and more recently, the Texas primary. Today however, Clinton has talked about it at every event, reminding each crowd that Hillary can win even if she continues to be outspent by her opponent.
Surprisingly Absent from Clinton's speeches today, were the now standard references to Senator Obama's comments rural America being bitter. President Clinton did allude to the comment to a crowd in Quakertown, PA, telling the crowd that older American know better than to buy into some of the statements Hillary's opponent has made recently.
"Because once you've reached a certain age, you won't sit there and listen to somebody tell you there’s really no difference between what happened in the Bush years and the Clinton years; that there’s not much difference in how small-town Pennsylvania fared when I was president, and in this decade," said Clinton.
Clinton was joined on the campaign trail today by Hillary supporter and Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who also took a quick second in Coatsville to mention Obama's remarks.
"We need a leader who won't quit, who'll fight for us, who'll stand by us. And you know, there's a lot of controversy about Senator Obama's remarks. And you can take them in any way you can. But I know that Pennsylvanians never quit. We never give up. We're resilient people. And we're proud. And sure, we've suffered some blows, we've suffered some blows. We've suffered some blows, but we suck it up, we work together as a community and we fight back, and we fight back. And we have a candidate who has done just that. Every time they counted Hillary Clinton out, she's fought back, she's sucked it up. And you know what, that's what we need in the White House," Rendell told the crowd as he introduced President Clinton.
April 15, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (91)
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Hill is unelecatble and is fighting for her pocket and not for Americans, Hill has 109 million nobody knows how she got that money, everybody knows that she got 800 000 from the Colombian government to help ship jobs from America to that country. America wake-up. NAFTA, China, Lincoln bedroom, Kirgystan, etc. Hillary the Bosnian General is concerned about herself and her family, making money out oif working classes. God bless America and God bless Obama.OBAMA08.
Posted by: BKMC | Apr 15, 2008 5:26:48 PM
PENN will decide who God will bless...
Posted by: True Truth | Apr 15, 2008 5:30:05 PM
Clintons have made 100 million dollars and therefore can spend some of their own money in the campaign instead of just lending it once. Go spend and win if you think that will help.
Posted by: silkwool | Apr 15, 2008 5:34:36 PM
Vanessa - Define extortion. And as you know extortion is a crime. So, where is the crime?
Posted by: Dogsoldier | Apr 15, 2008 5:43:34 PM
100 PA Mayors endorse Hillary!!!!!
Posted by: justme | Apr 15, 2008 5:44:31 PM
justme,
Their mayors, not Superdelegates
Sorry to rain on your parade
Posted by: Vanessa | Apr 15, 2008 5:49:00 PM
swuzy - Zeifman said in an interview last week. ... "I am a true Obama supporter." Nevertheless, this claim made by Zeifman is contained in a book he is peddling. And if you believe this then you aught to read the rest of his book and see for yourself. Apparently, the material in his book is not turning out so well.
Posted by: Dogsoldier | Apr 15, 2008 5:51:28 PM
100 PA Mayors, (Vanessa, yes I said M A Y O R S), endorse Senator Hillary Clinton for President of the United States of America!!!!!
Posted by: justme | Apr 15, 2008 5:53:19 PM
Vanessa - In February 2008, according to a Campaign Finance Institute analysis of the latest official campaign receipts, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) raised 56 percent of his contributions in increments of $200 or less, while Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) raised 52 percent in similar amounts.
Your math is off as usual.
Posted by: Dogsoldier | Apr 15, 2008 5:53:21 PM
So when Hillary says Obama can't win the General Election, is she afraid that he would?
Posted by: memoryaid | Apr 15, 2008 5:55:03 PM
Are ALL Superdelegates???
Posted by: Vanessa | Apr 15, 2008 5:55:38 PM
Vanessa what superdelegates are you trying to talk about? I am talking about 100 M A Y O R S, I cannot spell any slower.
Posted by: justme | Apr 15, 2008 5:57:13 PM
justme - 100 Mayors ENDORSED Hillary. PAST TENSE. These are mayors that had endorsed before, they just got trotten out again. Oh, and only 19 showed up at the "event".
Posted by: memoryaid | Apr 15, 2008 5:59:28 PM
Taking money from the public and saying Hilly can win with the money Billy boy at it again let him put his bucks in there .,.Swuzy yes, he did and they are still in a law suit in California I went on line and read this but don't ask me where now,she lied so bad they told her no more.
Posted by: h | Apr 15, 2008 5:59:46 PM
That was back in February when Clinton was the "inevitable" nominee
We're in April
On average, Obama donors donate by an average of $90
Which is why he was able to raise more then Hillary in the past 2-3 months
Her donors have maxed out or simply don't want to waste their money
You tell me
Posted by: Vanessa | Apr 15, 2008 6:00:03 PM
If they aren't superdelegates, their irreverent
Posted by: Vanessa | Apr 15, 2008 6:02:27 PM
Vanessa - Mayors are NOT superdelegates. However, some may well be if they were a previously elected official of the democratic national party itself or elected as a superdelegate in the coming primary or were previously appointed by DNC. Maybe one or two will fit that definition, but I doubt it.
Posted by: Dogsoldier | Apr 15, 2008 6:02:29 PM
Oh, and they should spend money they get on paying the small vendors all over this country that are owed money first, they are still $8m in debt, not counting the $5m she lent herself.
Posted by: memoryaid | Apr 15, 2008 6:02:34 PM
Look, Hillary supporters:
Hillary has a bit of momentum and Obama is shooting himself in the foot, no doubt about that. But it's too late, that's just the fact. She needs to win 65-35 from here on out to catch Obama. If she doesn't, she'll need to win about 60% of the remaining Superdelegates to catch him. That, my friends, will not happen in this country.
Posted by: Kevin | Apr 15, 2008 6:03:43 PM
Mike in NC
Hahaha. The way it's going, McCain's chances improve with every passing day. Look, regardless of what happens, the Democrats are sure to field a badly wounded candidate in November. They are bloodying themselves up right now and it's a mess. Hillary's wounds are not showing right now because the blacks aren't yet MAD at her. Against McCain she is still pulling 80% of the black vote. If the Superdelegates overturn the pledged delegates and hand this nomination to Hillary, i predict that not even Jesus will be able to get out the black vote for Hillary in November. In fact, in that case, she most likely will even lose her home state of NY.
Posted by: Kevin | Apr 15, 2008 6:07:09 PM
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