Late Night Bill
Bill Clinton’s final event of the day in Raleigh epitomised both his strengths and weaknesses in this campaign. Speaking on the back of a pick up, Bill was in his element. He did nothing to downplay expectations, beginning the event by asking ‘You going to go out and win this thing for Hillary?’ and ending with the line ‘you go out and win it for her North Carolina.’ He went on to stress how Hillary would be a president ‘for those who people who need a president.’ (The effect of this populist shtick was rather spoiled by the number of iPhones snapping him as he made this statement).
In typical style Bill turned both Obama’s eloquence and electoral lead into reasons to vote for Hillary; declaring that American needed a president who ‘can turn promises into progress and speeches into solutions’ and one who doesn’t quit ‘but is with you until the last dog dies.’
Bill’s recent predilection for racially insensitive comments continued when he announced ‘that America ought to work the way this crowds work’ which would require a rapid deportation of America’s minority population seeing as it was 90 percent plus white.
From tonight, it is clear that Bill---who is doing get out the vote stops across the state tomorrow—thinks Hillary can, at the least, come very close here. Any Obama margin of less than five would have to be considered a triumph for the Clintons.
PS The bizarre sign of the day award goes to the man waving a ‘Tamils yearn for Hillary’ sign.