Who needs a celebrity when you have Bill?

ClintonmagicHillary Clinton brought her own celebrity — Magic Johnson — on the campaign trail today, but it was still Bill Clinton who got the attention. At a stop this morning at a Des Moines grocery store, Bill was mobbed by employees. As for Hillary, the New York Times reported, “there were a couple of times when she stood by herself waiting for her husband to stop chatting up the crowd. Even Mr. Johnson had a moment where he stood alone watching the former president work his magic on the crowd.”
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

16 Comments

  1. Max
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 1:58 pm | Permalink

    There is nothing like having the endorsement of Magic Johnson and Barbra Streisand.

    The NBA and SGA. Great endorsements for the brainiest woman on the planet.

    I hear Roger Rabbit and Bugs Bunny will be the next to endorse Hillary.

  2. The Phantom
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 2:09 pm | Permalink

    Bill still draws crowds like a superstar.

  3. GMC70
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 2:43 pm | Permalink

    Okay . . . just who are we electing here? Remember?

  4. GMC70
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 2:43 pm | Permalink

    Well, maybe electing.

  5. TDT
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 3:37 pm | Permalink

    Freudian slip there GMC? Gotcha!!

  6. Econ101
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 3:51 pm | Permalink

    If Billary wins, maybe Bill can give the State of the Union?

  7. Tom Paine
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 4:57 pm | Permalink

    Who cares, Huckabee has Chuck Norris, Obama has Oprah, Thompson the L&O cast?

  8. PB&J
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 5:00 pm | Permalink

    Doesn’t she also have the Pussycat Dolls?

  9. Kansas
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 5:05 pm | Permalink

    Just waiting for Bill Clinton to mess up one day and say “When I’m elected President in 2008, I’ll…”

  10. GMC70
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 5:22 pm | Permalink

    Just waiting for Bill Clinton to mess up one day and say “When I’m elected President in 2008, I’ll…”

    Posted by: Kansas | December 18, 2007 at 05:05 PM
    —

    That would be a rare and revealing truth out of the Clinton machine, ya think?

    Is there any doubt, as Hillary’s! campaign continues to stumble, that is what is going on? Moreover, if Bill steps in to “save” the campaign, who will carry the political weight in the “Hillary” White House?

    No, Hillary’s! campaign, it turns out, is little more than an end run on the 22nd Amendment. Bill’s accomplishments, whatever you may think of him, were many(AG, 10 year governor in Arkansas). Hillary! is a mediocre junior Senator from a state she had to parachute into because she couldn’t get elected at home, riding in the coattails of her husband’s name and success.

    And that’s become apparant, as she falters.

    I’m just waiting for the cry that Hillary’s! being torpedoed by the “vast right wing conspiracy.”
    [eye roll].

    You know it’s coming . . .

  11. Econ101
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    It is ironic isnt it?

    Is this what “feminism” means today?

    Get married to the “right” guy, help that guy with all his “bimbo eruptions” while accomplishing absolutely nothing positive, on your own, that you could ever have done with out the guy?

    Then, run for office just to prove that you can do it, with no resume of your own?

    Of course Bill is running the show. Hillary has never run anything but her mouth!

    http://www.therant.us/staff/adamo/08242007.htm

    And a very dirty, viscous, ill tempered mouth it is:

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1178404/posts

  12. Tom Paine
    Posted December 18, 2007 at 8:25 pm | Permalink

    Elizabeth Dole and Mary Bono didnt use famous husbands to get jobs?

  13. GMC70
    Posted December 19, 2007 at 9:01 am | Permalink

    Lizzy Dole & Mary Bono aren’t running for president. It’s irrelevent. Further, “they did it too” is hardly a refutation; it’s an admission.

  14. TDT
    Posted December 19, 2007 at 1:05 pm | Permalink

    GMC & Paul- Did you have the same problem with GWB riding into the White House on his daddy’s coattails?

  15. GMC70
    Posted December 19, 2007 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    TDT:

    See above.

    And just a reminder: GWB isn’t running either. And your statement is still an admission.

    Moreover, whatever the connections GWB had which gave him a head start (certainly, there were some), it was not a thinly disguied extra term for Bush 41.

    Damn you, spambot!! Just how does a machine define something as “comment spam?”

  16. Econ101
    Posted December 19, 2007 at 6:33 pm | Permalink

    TDTW did have some accomplishments of his own.Tell us what Hillary has done, besides mistreating the White House staff, taking care of “bimbo erruptions,” covering up White Water and Castle Grande and Madison Guarantee crimes, there isnt much of a track record on her management skills.

    http://www.mediaresearch.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2007/col20071212.asp