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Bill Clinton setting the stage for Obama at convention makes perfect sense
By Mary C. Curtis
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- North Carolina isn’t Arkansas. But it’s still the south
. It’s been awhile since Bill Clinton occupied the White House. But he’s
still awfully popular. Despite a little golf and a handful of fundraisers,
Clinton and President Obama are not the best of friends.
Bill Clinton in London in May. (Samir Hussein - GETTY IMAGES FOR CLINTON
FOUNDAT) But, boy, does Bill Clinton love to be the go-to guy.
It makes perfect political sense that Clinton has been tagged, as The New
York Times reported, to formally place President Barack Obama’s name into
nomination at the Democratic National Convention here in September, in prime
time, and make the economic argument for four more years. This from the
president who presided over a flush economy, served two terms and has never
strayed far from center stage. The Clinton Global Initiative is one thing,
but this speech puts him back into TV rooms across America. “There isn’t
anybody on the planet who has a greater perspective on not just the last
four years, but the last two decades, than Bill Clinton,” Obama strategist
David Axelrod told the Times. “He can really articulate the choice that is
before people.”
Despite the sometimes contentious relationship between the two Democratic
presidents, Clinton won’t mind the attention and Obama will gladly accept
the imprimatur. By taking such a public role, Clinton is giving his
strongest endorsement yet for a second term for the president, and Bill
Clinton does not like to lose. Neither, you may have noticed,
President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton wave to the crowd
after speaking at a campaign event at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Monday,
June 4, 2012, in New York. (Carolyn Kaster - AP) does President Obama.
At times so far during the 2012 campaign, Clinton has seemed ambivalent
about Obama, disagreeing with him on his strategy to attack what Clinton
called Republican Mitt Romney’s “sterling business career,” and on the
decision to let Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans expire. (Clinton
later backtracked on that one.)
Though Clinton always returns to the Democratic Party line, he maintains an
independent and unpredictable profile. For his part, Obama must sometimes
wonder what this former president is going to say next.
This convention move would be better than a truce, and it would happen in
Clinton’s home region, in a swing state that Obama barely won in 2008 and
is trying his best to hold on to in November. If its 15 electoral votes
remain in the Democratic column, Clinton would surely get a fair share of
the credit. Obama needs enthusiastic turnout; Clinton
US President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at the Washington
Convention Center on April 27, 2012 in Washington. (JEWEL SAMAD - AFP/GETTY
IMAGES) has been known to work a crowd.
Obama has to know Bill Clinton and his prodigious political and oratorical
skills are handy to have around on the big stage during your party’s big
show, the one that sets the stage for November. (The fictional Clinton-like
figure on the new TV series “Political Animals” hails from North Carolina,
but with that accent would never be mistaken for the real thing.) Charlotte
’s mix of the cosmopolitan and down-home should appeal to the man from Hope
and Hot Springs, who operates out of New York City.
Just as President Obama made peace with Hillary Clinton after their 2008
primary fight, when he offered and she accepted the critical job of
Secretary of State, he sees the up side to having both Clintons in his
corner. Since Hillary Clinton won’t be attending the Charlotte convention
“consistent with her not engaging in any political activity whatsoever,” a
spokesman has said, maybe Bill Clinton and the current
Bill and Hillary Clinton at the Obama inauguaration, January 2009. (Jeff
Christensen) president will make time for a round of golf.
Clinton’s role will steal some thunder from Vice President Biden, who will
share the closing night with President Obama, but Biden has shown great
loyalty to his president. (Wasn’t that stand-in speech at the NAACP
convention a barnburner?)
As for Clinton, you wonder if he’s thinking of 2016 and if his wife,
despite current denials, might decide to make a run for the presidency then.
It might be an easier go after a second term for Obama, particularly a
successful one, than against a GOP incumbent.
The best part of a Sept. 5 Bill Clinton convention speech followed by
President Obama’s Sept. 6 climactic wrap-up? You just know political
junkies and everyone else for that matter will be waiting to see who did it
best.
Mary C. Curtis, an award-winning multimedia journalist in Charlotte, N.C.,
has worked at The New York Times, Charlotte Observer and as national
correspondent for Politics Daily. Follow her on Twitter: @mcurtisnc3 | l******a
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