Told ya so: Bill Clinton already campaining in Puerto Rico

[Eurobabe]

HA! :rofl:

The four sound trucks filed onto potholed streets at 8 o'clock Monday morning, weighed down by the 800-pound speakers rigged to their roofs. They drove past the pineapple plantations, past the black-sand beaches, past the multicolored tiendas downtown.

All morning, the trucks blasted the same short message, as if repetition might make it more believable: "Sí! Bill Clinton está aquí!"

Yes, a few hours later, Bill Clinton did come to this farming town 1,200 miles from the U.S. mainland, bringing with him the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign. The former president walked into the humid courtyard of a university to a drumroll from boys banging on steel garbage cans, past security guards in Hawaiian shirts and women dancing to salsa music, to make the case for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It may have been the first U.S. presidential campaign rally in Puerto Rican history, but more are sure to follow. On June 1, the U.S. commonwealth will hold a Democratic primary that will help determine 63 delegates -- more than the number awarded to 24 of the 50 states. About 2.5 million voters are eligible to participate in the primary, and both Hillary Clinton and her Democratic challenger, Sen. Barack Obama, are expected to visit the island to woo them. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/07/AR2008040702603_pf.html

[MonkeyFunk]

1. What's wrong with campaigning in Puerto Rico?

[cliffordu]

4. Last place to move the goalposts....

:rofl:

Good luck with that

[John Q. Citizen]

10. Second to the last place. MT and SD have "Last in the Nation" status.

[cliffordu]

14. ROFL

Sheeit. sorry, I had no idea.

:rofl:

[grantcart]

15. Rather a big change

1) It isn't until June 1st
2) Out of the major media markets

I think it is a wise move though in that it means that they are going to try and keep the focus on Senator Clinton.

[MonkeyFunk]

17. A change in what?

I honestly don't understand the objection. Why wouldn't she campaign there?

[SaveOurDemocracy]

2. So what??

:shrug:

[Eurobabe]

7. Suck an egg.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

12. Awwwwwwwww ... diaper rash got you down?

[Eurobabe]

13. C'ya

[BeyondGeography]

3. Puerto Rico, my heart's devotion, let it sink back in the ocean

Rita Moreno sung that in West Side Story. Blame Stephen Sondheim.

America...it's a masterpiece, "Life is alright in America. If you're all white in America."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QS7wWzwak4

[anonymous171]

5. Until he says "PR is a vital state for the GE and the nominee must win it"

I'll withhold judgment. Thanks for the heads-up though! :hi:

[PseudoIntellect]

11. That would be hilarious, wouldn't it? Never happening, though, of course.

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[Eurobabe]

9. Oh bullshit. It's just that Clintons keep moving the goalposts

What's with the racist elitism call on your part?

You people never cease to fucking amaze me. It's like freaks that come out after midnight. :eyes:

I notice that you just joined to bash Obama. Nice try, but I won't take your bait. C'ya

[MonkeyFunk]

18. There's only ever been one set of goalposts -

get 2025 delegates.

[Forkboy]

16. LOL...and to think you just complained about people taking things to "illogical extremes".

:rofl:

[jgraz]

8. I'm sure that's what he told Hillary

:evilgrin: