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Clinton rallies 2,000 in Las Vegas for President Obama

Updated Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 | 5:42 p.m.

Bill Clinton, who received plaudits for his speech at the Democratic National Convention in September, showed off his oratory skills Tuesday afternoon in Las Vegas at a rally for President Barack Obama. Under a blazing afternoon sun and cloudless sky, approximately 2,000 Obama supporters packed Springs Preserve to hear the former president make his case for a second term for his fellow Democrat. Clinton spoke for about 30 minutes, making a pitch for the entire Democratic ticket in Nevada while touching on the role of government, health care, education and employment. “The most successful societies on earth today are not ...

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  1. Bill Clinton and I agree... "government and business work together to do what each does best to empower everybody to succeed in shared prosperity."

    Putting people to work is what happens when I do my job well. I'm just one guy hooked up with lots of other folks, and all I do is discover things that would help folks have a better home, easier to maintain comfort and better for the environment as a whole.

    My little company then does some of the work that people decide they want to do, and that decision is influenced by the realities of money and time and need and potential savings... And the rebates we have set up here. It's our government and our industrious workers doing good things that benefit all of us.

    Last week, we reached a noteworthy threshold - 200 new full time jobs - directly tied to our community outreach, to our cooperation with utilities and local governments, and to our training.

    http://www.examiner.com/article/energy-a...

    That's what I do. and Bill Clinton's book BACK To Work is all about developing our skill set, implementing upgrades and cooperating with others to raise all boats. The shrinking unemployment numbers and rising real estate values follow. So do entrepreneurship, investment and economic recovery...community evolution, gentrification, culture.

    When one kicks back enough to see the progress that results from a functional cooperation between government and enterprising democratic vitality, it's easy to see what Bill and Barack are talking about. Sure, Las Vegas hasn't seen much of this growth, and it may never, but I'm here to tell ya that most of the US is enjoying a serious recovery from the Bush recession, even though Las Vegas flounders.

  2. Bill is trashing his own credibility. Unless of course he's getting paid by the campaign. They do have to spent that 181 million somehow?

  3. If dumb Bill Clinton had not vetoed Alaska Anwar oil just before he left office, we would have ONE MILLION more barrels of oil daily on the west coast than we have today. Gas would be $2.00 a gallon. Thank the democrats and greenies on election day.

  4. THANK YOU BILL!

    GREAT JOB.

    NO, we can't go back to those horrible republican
    years.

    These republicans are crazier than ever.

    We also need to boot out all of the crazy
    teabaggers from the House and Senate.

    REPUBLICAN GREED DESTROYED OUR ECONOMY.

    And now, PRESIDENT OBAMA has us on the mend.

    WE'RE NOT STUPID!

    NO MORE REPUBLICANS!!!

  5. @ teamster....I can see you are one of those Democrats who must have missed the tolerance and diversity lesson...

  6. The impeached President campaigning for the Illegal President. What a joke.

  7. Was he autographing Monica's new book?

  8. Mr. President. You are no Bill Clinton.

  9. So, it seems Obama's multi-million dollar campaign to paint Mitt Romney as a murdering, tax evader, was wiped out in 90 minutes Wednesday night. The complicity of the MSM with this incompetent administration is astounding. The picture of a
    stoned, listless President, who could barely answer questions and keep his eyes open, won't be easily forgotten in the minds of 67 million viewers. On the other side, a sharp, alert, informed and caring Mitt Romney, impressed voters who had heard only the lies from the DEMS. Thank God for debates and Thank God for Romney/Ryan, our only hope to save this country!

  10. 70 million Americans got to see the Real Romney and the Real Obama for 90 full minutes on Wed night. Gov. Romney looked more than ready to be President and had a PLAN to repair the damage to our nation for the last 4 years and bring back GROWTH and JOBS. Obama showed he had no real answer to 4 years of failure, and certainly NO PLAN for 4 more years. Just More DEBT and More Misery! Today Gallup told us that of the 70 million Americans who saw the debate 72% think Gov. Romney won overwhelmingly. 20% Obama. The most historic blowout in all of Presidential Debate History. Now we are hearing the whining, blaming, and excuses coming from the Obama campaign and the left. Here is some of the nonsense. 1. Gov. Romney lied - The Obama campaign and the freaked out left. 2. Obama's brain was Oxygen deprived in Denver - Al Gore. 3. Obama spent my million dollars on pot and was high - Bill Maher Take your pick they are all absurd. Obama really thinks he can recover by getting into the sewer again? Today we had the first poll out after the debate with Pew Research. Romney 49% to Obama 45%. A 4 point Romney lead among likely voters. The last Pew poll had Obama ahead 51 to 43. So this is a HUGE 12 point swing in Gov. Romney's favor. The American people saw reality on Wednesday night and found Obama unfit to be President. "When someone doesn't do the job you gotta let them go"!

  11. Hey Teamster maybe you should check your facts. I did with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, if you know what that is, anyway funny thing about facts.During Bushes 8 years The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
    The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
    The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
    George Bush's Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!
    Remember that day...
    January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
    The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
    So maybe next time read a book, cause you certainly sound like an Obamabot Idiot!

  12. milt teamster is a brainwashed union advocate. Another on that drinks to much kool-aid and doesn't have the where for all to actually investigate the spin that is the media. All great points you post.

  13. God, just listen to you TeaNuts...

    Man, it's going to be SO SATISFYING on Tuesday, November 6, when President Obama is re-elected.

    Hey, Milty...
    I will think of the likes of you, for sure.

  14. Well now brown cow:

    What do we say of the hyperinflation peeking around the 2018 corner?

    This kettle and the books began cooking in 2001, to pay for two wars without regard for the fact that this would debase the dollar. When the Administration was asked what of this malfeasance, the response was that is something for the future to worry about.

    Most folks fail to understand what America is about, not that their ideas and objectives are without good intentions; just that they have been conditioned by epochs of Americas plenty. There was a time in America that folks just picked-up and moved west to strike their claim of fortune contingent on their self-determination.

    America today is much more changed by mere demographics than by population. This single fact alone makes the distribution of the pie less satisfying for the once powerfully related descendants who wheeled and dealt as they wished with little regard for the underclasses.

    Today's Americans have little in the way of morale support by people and politicians with vested interest in another country rather than our homeland and what it should mean for all who live here, bar-none. The over-all complacency of American citizens to think that rights not used in the past no longer apply today is melancholy, and bless their souls thinking that religious institutions will care for all who need, that just isn't the reality, never was never will be. Americans are entitled just as a monarch is entitled in his country to be supported by his/her subjects.

  15. Bill lied about what the definition of "is" is. Obama lied about what happened in Libya because it didn't match his campaign rhetoric that bin laden was dead and al Qaeda was on the run. No one should trust or vote for Obama.

    The president likes to use the word so I'll use it on him. You are one bullsh____er Mr. Obama.

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