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Bill Clinton stumps for Obama in waning days of campaign
 
Frank Cotolo
30 Oct 2008
 
SRN NATIONAL NEWS EXCLUSIVE
 
HARRISBURG, PA -- As the Presidential campaign craze sweeps through the final days it now includes President Bill Clinton. The former prexy kept a large crowd at Harrisburg High School in the capitol city of Pennsylvania waiting for over an hour in a crowded, steamy gymnasium before he showed up looking refreshed and clean to speak to Barack Obama supporters.
 
Mr. Clinton looked completely heeled from a heart operation a few years ago that found surgeons' hands inside his chest, clearing clogged arteries. This was a while before his wife, Hillary Clinton, lost her Presidential bid to Obama. Clinton spoke to the crowd in Harrisburg as if he never had a heart problem.
 
He said he was on his way to Florida where he was going to appear for the first time alongside Obama at a rally. He spoke of how important it was not to take advantage of Obama's lead in the polls and how people should take off from work on Election Day and canvas for Obama. Clinton did not offer to reimburse people who would lose a day's pay if they did this.
 
The scene around the high school was frenetic. People sold Obama shirts and buttons and beverage coolers and volunteers wandered the grounds doing nothing but telling visitors to "go this way" and "don't go there, go here."
 
Later, Clinton met with Obama in Florida and said much of the same things he said in Pennsylvania. Then Obama, whose prime-time TV special aired earlier, said much of what he has been saying all week.
 
With less than a week left before Election Day, it seemed all wounds from the hectic and controversial primary season had been healed, with President Clinton smiling and waving and sounding supportive.
 
"I betchya he votes for McCain, though," said a visitor to the high school in Pennsylvania after Clinton departed. "He don't want Obama to win. He never did. Besides, he must think that Sarah Palin is pretty and hot."
   
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