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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (53565)	10/30/2008 8:19:13 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224708

Thx for that. BO should reconsider sending Bill Clinton on the campaign trail: Bill Clinton: Obama Got Lots of Help on Economic Crisis Bill Clinton says at a rally that Barack Obama called a round of advisers during the height of the economic crisis and said, "tell me what ... to do." October 29, 2008 Obama tried to maintain an image of a cool and collected leader during the height of the economic crisis last month, when lawmakers on Capitol Hill scrambled to draft a workable bailout package after a meltdown on Wall Street. When John McCain suspended his campaign to dive head first into the fray, Obama's campaign accused the Republican of being "unsteady." But to hear Bill Clinton tell it, the Democratic nominee didn't quite have a handle on the situation himself. Clinton said when the crisis broke, Obama called his own advisers as well as those of the former two-term president, Hillary Clinton and others. "He called those people. You know why? Because he knew it was complicated and before he said anything he wanted to understand," Clinton said. The seeming praise may come off as a backhanded compliment. McCain's campaign said Clinton's remark shows Obama was uncertain when Wall Street seemed to be on the verge of crumbling. "Barack Obama had no idea what the right thing to do is or at least that's Bill Clinton's impression," McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb said. "It's disturbing that ... Barack Obama's response to this is 'Tell me what to do and I will sell it,'" Goldfarb added. "That's been Barack Obama's entire campaign -- is one big sales job." Goldfarb said he can't speculate on the content of the advice Obama solicited in late September but that, "The result was to sit back and do nothing." Clinton sometimes has had a strange way of showing his support. He has repeatedly praised McCain in interviews, and even described Sarah Palin at one point as an "effective candidate with a compelling story" who cannot be underestimated.