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Election 2012: Obama to take stage after Clinton pitch
Former Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, a past Democratic Party chairman who appeared on “CBS This Morning,” said he’s still worried “about the base turning out to the degree they did” for Obama in 2008. He cited the battleground states of North Carolina and Virginia in particular.
Speaking of the convention speeches delivered by the first lady and the former president, Rendell added: “The beauty of Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton is they stoked the base.”
Motivation was not an issue in the convention hall, at least not when Clinton spoke.
The hall rocked with cheers as Clinton strode onstage to Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop,” his 1992 campaign theme song, and he held the crowd rapt as he drifted off his prepared remarks for about 50 minutes.
He accused Republicans of proposing “the same old policies that got us into trouble in the first place” and led to a near financial meltdown. Those, he said, include efforts to provide “tax cuts for higher-income Americans, more money for defense than the Pentagon wants and … deep cuts on programs that help the middle class and poor children.”
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press
