Clintons want you to know they back Barack
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton knocked themselves out for the Obama-Biden ticket Sunday, campaigning with Joe and Jill Biden. And they want you to know it.
The Clintons -- the day after their 33rd anniversary -- and the Bidens stumped in Scranton, Pa., in a key battleground state Hillary Clinton won in the Democratic primary. She has family roots in the city -- her father was raised there, as was Biden.
The Clinton political operation wants to make sure the record shows that Bill and Hill are running around trying to get Barack Obama elected president, despite her primary loss to him.
That's a reason the Clinton political operation sent out a transcript of their remarks from the rally in Scranton. That's why her operation sends regular updates with the amount of money -- $10 million so far -- Hillary Clinton has raised for the Obama general election campaign.
"She has done 50 events for Senator Obama. She has not only done more to support him than any runner-up in the Democratic primary process in my lifetime, she has done more than all the other runner-ups combined. That says a lot about why she ran for president and what she believes in," Bill Clinton said.
The former president, accused of being lukewarm about Obama -- a notion that should have been quashed after his stemwinder for Obama at the Democratic convention, said the Obama-Biden campaign is dispatching him next to Virginia.
Said Hillary Clinton, "This week, I am barnstorming across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and on to other battleground states that we can and must win."
Clinton wants the $10 million figure out there to keep the Obama team on notice that fund-raising can be a two-way street and that the Obama donors have yet to step up with vigor to help her erase her primary debt.