In echoes of Bush's '04 re-election campaign, the Clinton campaign is now playing the fear card. Scare tactics courtesy of Bill.
Bill Clinton has added a new reason why his wife should be the Democratic nominee for president, what he called "most important of all": she would be best able to "deal with the unexpected," he said here today, with an allusion to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Addressing more than 100 supporters gathered at a VFW hall here, Clinton said that there were four reasons to vote for his wife: her vision, her plans, her experience -- the three reasons he has been giving in his stump speech until now -- plus, he said, a fourth, the threat of the unknown.
"Here's the other thing you need to know, the most important thing of all. You have to have a leader who is strong and commanding and convincing enough...to deal with the unexpected," he said. "There is a better than a 50 percent chance that sometime in the first year or 18 months of the next presidency something will happen that is not being discussed in this campaign. President Bush never talked about Osama Bin Laden and didn't foresee Hurricane Katrina.
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Amazing! Either Bill is privy to some secret intelligence, perhaps the PDB, or he's clairvoiant. In any event, apparently attending funerals and teas overseas, makes his wife "strong and commanding . . . to deal with the unexpected." Unbelievable.
A new poll shows perhaps why the Clinton camp is stooping to such fear and scare tactics."
A McClatchy-MSNBC poll taken Wednesday through Friday shows former North Carolina Sen. John Edward with 24 percent, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton with 23 percent and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama with 22 percent.
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