Politico calls Bill Clinton "Obama's crutch".

[RandySF]

The presidential race appears to be moving in President Barack Obama’s favor, but he’s still relying on the Bill Clinton crutch.

Clinton heads to New Hampshire next Wednesday to provide the overture for Obama in the hours before the first debate, and more stops are in the works.

The message couldn’t be clearer: There may be a way for Chicago to pull off a win without Clinton’s continued help, but they’re not going to risk it.

The Obama campaign used Clinton to buoy the Democratic convention, then had him star in the president’s post-convention ad buy — and not just because the former president remains immensely popular. As the campaign acknowledges, Clinton brings credibility to the connection between an Obama presidency and a strong economy, reinforcing the idea that there’s a straight line between Obama’s proposals and Clinton’s legacy of budget surpluses and middle class prosperity.




http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81794.html#ixzz27oqNs0lV

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Meanwhile, Shrub was a purposeful "no show" at the Romney convention fiasco

Why was that again? Why is Shrub going to the Cayman Islands again?

[flamingdem]

3. The Cayman event is

for bottom feeders, $400 to attend ain't much, wonder what they're paying Schrub, all you can drink?

[alcibiades_mystery]

2. Clinton campaigned for Obama in 08

he did a stop in PA with Hillary and Biden.

Silly story. Of course Clinton will campaign for Obama. Why wouldn't he.

[ProSense]

4. I guess "crutch" is supposed to be negative?

I mean, how the hell could Obama win without Clinton, right?

Begala invited Mitt Romney to bring his own available former president on the campaign trail, and even offered to pay for George W. Bush’s plane ticket to Ohio. That’s the point, he said: Clinton enables the Obama campaign to make an empirical argument for the president’s reelection.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Of course it is.

And, if Obama didn't use Clinton's help, they'd call him "stupid" for not doing so. Damned if he does. Damned if he doesn't.

[tblue37]

10. Yes. Unlike the Repubs, we are not ashamed of our former president.becausehe

did not ignore warnings about a terorist attack, tank the economy, and start two unpaid for wars, one of which was an illegal invasion of a country that had nothing to do with the terrorist attacks.

We can allow our former president to be seen in polite company, because his time in office was not disastrous for the country, as the Republican president's eight years in office so obviously was.

[FLyellowdog]

5. I misread the headline as "Obama's Crotch"...and things went downhill from there. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

8. !!!

[JI7]

7. and if he didn't campaign they would be writing about how things between

them are still bad and a bunch of other crap.

why no mention of the last republican President who was in office less than 4 years ago not being invited to the Republican Convention and being treated as if he was never President. same goes for the VP . and republican VP running mate in 2008.

[benld74]

9. 'W Administration' was the black hole of the country

[Honeycombe8]

11. So he gets by with a little help from his friends. That's a GOOD thing. It takes a village. nt