Clinton: All about 2012?
Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:13 AM by Mark Murray
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The New York Post’s Hurt speculates Clinton is staying in “with no hope of winning” to lay “the foundation for her political future, circa 2012.”
Per NBC/NJ's Matthew Berger, Bill Clinton took a page from his wife’s stump speech Tuesday evening in celebrating the campaign’s large victory in West Virginia. In Kalispell, MT, standing in the back of a red pickup truck in front of the backdrop of picturesque mountains, the former president started his speech outside the Flathead Valley Community College, and declared it a “great night.” He then borrowed from his wife’s victory speech earlier in the evening, recalling President Kennedy’s 1962 rain-shortened speech in Wheeling, WV, an appropriate analogy for the wet crowd that had waited hours for the former president’s arrival in a cold rain. Clinton then read, verbatim, anecdotes from Hillary’s speech on why the Clinton campaign should “finish the job.”
“I want to tell you tonight, first, this has been an amazing race,” he said, transitioning back to his own words. “It’s been fought largely to a draw by two extraordinary candidates with compelling visions.” His wife’s vision, he said, was the better end of the argument but said she insisted he add that the party will be united in November whoever the candidate is.
