HRC: Dems don't get elected without WV
Posted: Monday, May 12, 2008 2:55 PM by Mark Murray
From NBC/NJ's Mike Memoli
CLEAR FORK, WV -- Hillary Clinton turned to the example of John F. Kennedy this afternoon as she tried to keep her bid afloat -- saying that West Virginia “made it possible” for him to become president, even though he went into his party’s convention short on delegates.
“But he had something equally as important,” she said. “He had West Virginia behind him, because it’s a fact: that Democrats don’t get elected president unless west Virginia votes for you. And everybody knows West Virginia has picked presidents pretty accurately over the last years.”
Clinton hit on her usual talking points and continued to raise her plan for a gas-tax holiday that she acknowledged Obama has called a “gimmick.” And, speaking before a crowd full of students, she also talked about the need to help people pay for college.
"My family could help me pay for college but nothing else,” she said. “I worked ever since I was 13. I had a job, except for the eight years in the White House when I did not.” Someone disagreed, shouting out that being first lady “was a job.” “That was a job,” she agreed, “a volunteer job, that’s right. That was a job with no job description. But it sure took up a lot of time. And it was an honor to serve.”
