We’re coming to the end of the US presidential campaign and not for the first nor last time, I’m surprised.
Bill Clinton came out and did some rallying for Kerry.
Now I’m a big Clinton fan, he was in my view a great president with only one real weakness - his policy (or lack thereof) on Terrorism and to be honest, who can blame him when no one gave two jots about it during his presidency.
However from the outset it’s been easy to see the outlines of the Clintonian return to power in Hillary’s prudent plan to hang back this year. I didn’t really expect Bill to suddenly come out swinging for Kerry when his presidency effectively demolishes Hillary’s campaign-to-be for the next term.
So here are the possibilities as I see them:
1) Hillary has decided that her presidency isn’t worth another 4 years of GWB (after all it’ll be a tough fight against Gulliani by the looks of things) and has decided with Bill to go with Kerry. Or
2) The Clintons have a gut feeling that this one is going to the Republicans and are therefore just swinging in casually to prevent being fingered as campaign assassins after the dust settles.
So which is it? I don’t think we’ll know till the end of the election - if at all.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at October 26, 2004 02:13 AM | TrackBack