*** AP Breaking ---- Bill Clinton to Join Wife in Alabama **

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In competition for a key Democratic voting bloc, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is enlisting the help of her husband, former President Clinton, at a weekend civil rights commemoration headlined by a formidable black rival, Sen. Barack Obama.

Clinton and Obama, the party's top 2008 presidential contenders, will be in Selma, Ala., Sunday to observe the 42nd anniversary of a civil rights march that helped end racial segregation in the South. Obama is scheduled to deliver the day's keynote address at a Selma church that morning, with Sen. Clinton speaking at another church nearby.

But late Thursday, the Clinton campaign announced that the former president would join his wife in a symbolic march across the Edmund Pettus bridge, where civil rights workers were beaten by state troopers in 1965. Obama also will participate in the march, along with civil rights activists and others.


http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2916818





Bubba's gonna remind black voters that his wife would be the first black female president? No? :popcorn:

Obama giving them headaches already? :bounce:

[Colobo]

1. It would be cool to see the three of them march TOGETHER

the message it would send to the Republicans and to the nation in general would be powerful!

[Larry in KC]

3. Boy, is that ever not gonna happen!

[karynnj]

8. It actually could and should

Think of what this commemerates, it is bigger than politics and it still almost a year before the primaries happen. Something is really wrong with our party if it couldn't.

[ElizabethDC]

11. I think it would be great if they all do march together

especially after the hissyfit over the Geffen comments, I think it would be nice for Clinton and Obama to show that they can stand together on something.

[karynnj]

16. I agree and it would help both of them

[Ninja Jordan]

2. Hillary will use Bill Clinton to woo black voters.

[ronnykmarshall]

4. OH MY GOD!!

:eyes:

[babylonsister]

13. Ditto that. nt

[rhombus]

5. Obama/Clinton or Clinton/Obama

I think Republican heads will explode with a such a combination. 2008 may hold some surprises.

[ElizabethDC]

6. Hillary was scheduled to accept an award on her husband's behalf in Selma that day

so technically he's just showing up to pick up his own award. But, obviously, it certainly doesn't hurt Hillary to have him there. :7

[Donnachaidh]

7. breaking out the big guns, err DAWG?

I'm sorry, I love Bill. He can leave Hillary home. :evilgrin:

[Colobo]

9. Is it just me, or Hillary might be showing her main weakness?

If Bill Clinton is her main weapon, what does that say about her as a candidate? What does SHE bring to the table? Is she selling herself as the woman that will bring Bill to the WH again, or as a candidate by her own merits?

I mean, Republicans might a field day with Hillary if that's the case...

[ElizabethDC]

10. I think she has been working to show herself as a candidate on her own merits

she announced that she was running over a month ago, and yet this will be the first time they have made a public appearance together since the announcement. She's been out campaigning on her own, and mentioning him occasionally, though he is most certainly not the focus of her campaign (many have noted, in fact, that all her campaign material and her website just says "Hillary," and not Clinton) - all that he's done so far (publicly, at least) is send out a fundraising e-mail.

It's completely normal for a candidate to campaign with their spouse, and I think most candidates would like to have a spouse as influential as Bill Clinton. But Hillary is strong enough to stand on her own, which I think she has proven at her campaign stops thus far.

[Clarkie1]

12. They ought to march together.

Seriously. It would be nice if all the Democratic candidates came together once in awhile for important shows of unity, even during a campaign season.

What unites us is greater than what divides us.

[patricia92243]

14. If it is shown on TV somebody PLEASE post and let everyone know. :)

[David Zephyr]

15. This troubles me and here is why:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x319623

[sampsonblk]

17. She has all the advatages

The President is probably her biggest punch. But she still has a lot of other advantages. She could win this thing without tapping half her repertoire.

[JeffR]

18. Whose wife?

Sorry, just couldn't help myself.