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October 6, 2008

Hillary Clinton coming to Charleston on Friday

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sen. Hillary Clinton is returning to West Virginia for a campaign stop, this time to endorse fellow Democrat Anne Barth.

The former first lady is scheduled to stump for Barth on Friday at the University of Charleston. The rally is free and open to the public.

Clinton last visited West Virginia just before her overwhelming win in the state's May presidential primary.

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12 Comments

Posted By: Anonymous (8:19am 10-09-2008)

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I want Hill to run in 2012. If not for BHO's cheating in the caucuses, Hill would have won. She was by far the most qualified and the best chance to get this nation back on track.
WV has loved the Clinton's for years and BHO didn't even bother to campaign here in the primaries and allowed the talking heads to paint us as racist. He will never get my vote.

Posted By: Anonymous (8:19am 10-07-2008)

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Is Hillary campaigning for McCain?

Posted By: Anonymous (6:21am 10-07-2008)

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As to the potential for the smear counterattack to be effective in places where fear matters more than the issues this year (fortunately, it appears that substance trumps fearmongering in most of America this fall), there is this from the new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showing Obama with a 49-43 lead over McCain:

"And cautionary notes remain for Sen. Obama. The poll suggests that the first African-American to win a major party nomination could be vulnerable to race-based attacks tying him to unpopular black figures such as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his former pastor and Al Sharpton, an outspoken and controversial figure.

Thirty-five percent of all voters -- and 40% of white voters -- said those connections bother them. This is absent any candidate or party pressing hard on those themes, something Republicans have hinted they may start to raise more aggressively in the campaign's closing days."

Posted By: Anonymous (5:58am 10-07-2008)

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This says it all about the state of Democratic Party politics in West Virginia today. The party establishment was tumescent for HillBillary and, while most of them almost certainly liked & admired Obama, they just didn't think it was his time, or maybe not "his turn" (a distinctly Republican way of thinking) and, after Jeremiah Wright and Hillary's 41-point drubbing of him in the primary, a lot of them got cold feet, and then they got miffed when Barack told them this state's demographic didn't justify the allocation of major resources this fall. But Obama didn't get where he is by being stupid, and it was nice of his campaign to green-light an effort by talentless hacks like Vogel. So now Hillary's coming to town for Barth. That's very cool, but...Vogel isn't even certain that she'll stump in any significant way for Obama? Look, the presidential race has tightened in WV some, but in WV Barack won't withstand the vicious, smear, last-stand counterattack by Palin-McCain. Mark it dow

Posted By: Anonymous (10:53pm 10-06-2008)

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"Save WV coal jobs, screw the air and water. Is that the Capito way?"

Dont like coal? Prove it, turn your power off, quit using the electricity and show them you object to using coal. Oh, you won't? uh,huh.

Posted By: Anonymous (9:57pm 10-06-2008)

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Maybe while she is here she can help push the PICKENS PLAN to save the US from a 700 billion $ loss every year.-CW

Posted By: Anonymous (9:04pm 10-06-2008)

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I love the people on here who think they know everything about politics and then do things like spell lose with two O's. It's lose, not loose.

Posted By: Anonymous (9:02pm 10-06-2008)

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Save WV coal jobs, screw the air and water. Is that the Capito way?

Posted By: Anonymous (8:56pm 10-06-2008)

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Do you really think Hildabeast wants Barack Hussein to win? If he does, and the past few years are any indication, he will be in office for the next 8 years. That will kill her chances of getting in. She wants him to loose!

Posted By: Anonymous (7:42pm 10-06-2008)

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If Vogel does not know, who does? We all do. We know that the Clintons have been giving Obama only token support. The Clintons realize that Obama is not the best Democratic candidate. Pres. Clinton ran as a Southern Conservative (although he was not much of a conservative) and Obama is running as the most liberal of the liberals, just as Kerry did. Save WV coal jobs, vote for McCain/Capito

Posted By: Anonymous (7:40pm 10-06-2008)

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It'd be nice if Hillary could get these rednecks to vote the right way.

Posted By: Anonymous (7:09pm 10-06-2008)

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I like Hillary and Barth could certainly use the assistance, but why not make this a coordinated effort and stump for Obama too?