Bill Clinton: Older Voters Too Savvy To Fall For Obama - BostonGlobe

[WillyT]

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QUAKERTOWN, Pa. -- Older voters gravitate to Hillary Clinton because they're too wise to be fooled by Barack Obama's rhetoric, former president Bill Clinton told Pennsylvania voters today.

Clinton's comments, to a packed high school gym about an hour north of Philadelphia, were one part presidential politics and one part legacy protection. His beef was with Obama's contention that many of the problems facing the country today were simmering long before President Bush took office seven-plus years ago.

"I think there is a big reason there's an age difference in a lot of these polls," he said. "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."

"So I think it's important that we get to the truth of this," Clinton continued, going on to compare his and Bush's record on jobs, family incomes, and other measures.

Last week, however, Clinton seemed to suggest that older voters might be more absent-minded than wise. Defending Hillary Clinton's faulty recollection of landing under sniper fire during a 1996 humanitarian visit to Bosnia, the former president said of her critics, "When they're 60, they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 o'clock at night, too."

At various points in his nearly hour-long appearance at Quakertown Community High School, Clinton cautioned the hundreds gathered to hear him against voting on history. (His defense of his White House record notwithstanding, of course.) Despite press coverage about how historic a campaign this is, Clinton said, "the history doesn't amount to a hill of beans. All that matters is the future. Who will make the best future for you?"

And later, after he had run through, in great detail, the ins and outs of America's foreign and domestic policy challenges, Clinton returned to the theme of substance versus abstraction. Hillary Clinton, he said, would be a "servant leader," and voters had to decide whether that was more important than electing a "symbolic leader." "You gotta decide," he said, as if he had laid out even arguments for each.

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Link: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/bill_clinton_ol.html

Wha........ :wtf:

[anonymous171]

1. So young voters aren't intelligent!

Fuck this relic!

[BlooInBloo]

11. Anyone under 65 doesn't count to the Hilarity Clinton campaign...

:rofl:

[papau]

2. Got to love the unbiased Boston Globe - when it endorsed Obama Clinton hate became policy

[anonymous171]

3. Did the Boston Globe make Clinton say that?

[SoxFan]

30. You clearly don't read the Globe

If anything, the news coverage has been pro-Hillary. Washington editor Peter Cannellos is clearly a Hillary supporter.

[Bigleaf]

4. He's a fucking clown now. That's all he is.

[cottonseed]

5. I remember a time Arsenio had a saxophonist named Bill.

He must hate what he's become.

[Imagevision]

6. Bill actually believes ther viet nam and 60's crowd are buying Hillary's act... (that's good though)

[anonymous171]

7. I think Bill may actually believe that Obama is the "black candidate" a la Jesse Jackson.

Un-fucking-believable.

[Cha]

13. bil clinton believe his own

bullshit? Is he that stupid?

[Cha]

8. Brawawawawawawawaaaaa.. Now

bil clinton is trying to divide age groups.

This "older" from the Flower Child Generation is too damn smart for bil clinton lies.

[Raven]

9. Oh bullshit! I'm his age and I've lived long enough and seen enough to know

a phoney when I see one. I think both Clinton's need a long, long rest.

[limit18]

18. Right on!

:thumbsup:

[ClassWarrior]

10. Actually, they aren't as wired, so they can't fact-check as easily.

NGU.

[anonymous171]

17. Good point. nt

[BattyDem]

12. "When they're 60, they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 o'clock at night, too."

Yeah, that's what I want in a president: someone who "forgets" something when they're tired at 11 o'clock at night. :eyes: It'll be fine. There's almost never a world crisis after 10:30 PM.

What a stupid thing to say!

[NC_Nurse]

14. I didn't realize I was that young. I guess 47 is the new 27.

:eyes:

[nebula]

15. Christ

what a MORAN.

Nice way alienate younger voters in the GE, ya dumbfuck.

This is why she will NEVER EVER get the nom. Not in a billion zillion years.

And New Yorkers will never re-elect her to the Senate after that crude insult.

[CreekDog]

16. My God! Their strategy has all the appeal of "Springtime for Hitler"

:banghead:

[WillyT]

19. Hillary's New Strategy Team...

:rofl:

[CreekDog]

21. yeah, except they wanted their strategy to fail

she expects it to work!!!!!!!!!! :banghead:

[WillyT]

22. Good Point...

:banghead:

[defendandprotect]

26. That would be a great theme song for the GOP --

as sung by Democrats --- !!!

[K Gardner]

20. Did he remind them Obama doesn't steal cars.. as far as he knows.. ??

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

23. Hey Bill, insulting me isn't going to make me want to vote for Hillary more.

dumbass.

[defendandprotect]

24. 90% of O'Reilly's audience is 70 or older---!!!

[The Ghost]

25. So my 60 year old parents are fools? FUCK YOU BILL.

FUCK
YOU

[thevoiceofreason]

27. He;s losing it.

[Alii]

28. I'm an older voter...

a vet and educated. Who am I voting for? Barack Obama...as are many of my generation, at least those whom are intelligent enough to listen and read.

C'mon fellow grandpas and great-grandpas, and grandmas and great-grandmas, think of the younger generaton...allow them unselfish HOPE.

[RiverStone]

29. Every generation of my family is voting for Obama

My 18 year ol daughter is casting her first Pres vote ever for Obama!

I'm voting for Obama!

My JFK loving parents are for Obama!

[Imagevision]

31. Bill truly is fucking up major with dumb comments. one trick pony?

[zulchzulu]

32. Find an intern to grope on, Bill

I guess the hundreds of people in their senior years are just elitists, right Bill?

Where the fuck is Monica, Bill? Go grope on her, you ass.