Former president Bill Clinton has doubled the number of appearances on his campaign schedule for the North Carolina and Indiana primaries this coming week. This is a real two-eged sword for Hillary.
Bubba has been pretty controversial on the trail so far. By pointing out the truth about the South Carolina pimary, that it was stacked for a black candidate, just like it was for Jesse Jackson in 1992, he was dubbed "playing the race card." This coming from America's first black president, as named by leftist poetess Maya Angelou, didn't play well in the mass media.
Bubba also flubbed a ham-handed defense of Hillary's lies about her trip to Bosnia. All her handlers wanted to keep the controversy quiet, since Obama was grabbing all the headlines at that moment with his self-destructing, elitist comments about small town Democratic white males who take solace in church and guns.
Bill is still something of a celebrity, though, and has drawn huge, fawning crowds in some places. The hope is that in white small towns and suburbs, he can crank the voter turnout in Hillary's favor. When he can resist the temptation to even scores on real and imagined slights, Bill is a folksy, knowledgeable speaker who can create favorable attention.
Old Bill Clinton hands have been turning up more often recently at Hillary's campaign headquarters, along with Bill himself, and he's thought to be the major impetus behind Hillary's "never say die" campaign to hang on. It's thought that he cannot bear to lose the campaign to Obama and his retinue of veteran Clinton-haters, so is digging in for the long haul.
This is good news for John McCain and the GOP, if nothing else, to prolong the Democratic bloodshed.
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