Former President Bill Clinton returned to his home state Friday to help a beleaguered ally and delivered a broadside against some of the most powerful interests in the Democratic Party.
Using unusually vivid language to describe the threat against Sen. Blanche Lincoln, Clinton urged the voters who nurtured his career to resist outside forces bent on making an example out of the two-term Democratic incumbent.
He pounded the podium with Lincoln at his side, warning that national liberal and labor groups wanted to make her a “poster child” in the June 8 Senate run-off to send a message about what happens to Democrats who don’t toe the party line.
“This is about using you and manipulating your votes to terrify members of Congress and members of the Senate,” Clinton said in the gym of a small historically black college here.
Um, yeah, that's about right, Mr. Clinton! When the Democratic party, and the President promise "Change You Can Believe In," and then give is "The Same Old Song And Dance," then of course we liberals are going to do our damnest to unseat those Democrats that are not towing the party line. And I don't mean the corporate party line, I mean the people party line. Blanche Lincoln must go, and I for one, am proud to say that I have contributed not once, but twice, to Bill Halter's campaign! Thank god for ActBlue.
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This is the same Bill Clinton who was tasked by the Obama administration to offer Joe Sestak a peachy gov't position in return for not running against that chameleon old fart Specter. Thanks, Bill. Thanks, Barack.
Sheesh.
The courted us for our money and our votes and then kicked us to the curb once they got into office. I mean SPECTER? What were they thinking? Better yet, what were they drinking and smoking? A 30 year republican over a progressive democrat? And Billy boy said it direct and CORRECT. We are trying to scare the shit out of our congresscritters. Vote for what the people want and not what the corporate interests SAY the people want.
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