I went with my family to see Bill Clinton speak in New Castle, Indiana. It started out slow with the doors opening a little past 4:15 like they were supposed to. My dad had called Joe Hogsett the state coordinator for Hillary Clinton in Indiana and we found out he was 30 minutes away. The speech finally started at a little after 4:50. The crowd didn’t really seem to notice the delay. Although I am pretty much on the side of Obama you can’t help but be amazed at Bill’s speeches. Even if they repeat all the time. He was introduced and behind him stood a full length flag, and of course the podium. He was nicely attired and had on his normal bracelets. He talked about Hillary’s tax plan, economic plan..which involves battery operated cars.
“If we can beat the Soviet Union to put a man on the moon we can beat the world at spreading battery powered cars and Hillary plans on doing it.”
Then he started to talk about foster care, jobs getting more and also them being given to other countries, gas prices..and everything but, it seemed, the war in Iraq and immigration. Sure he said Hillary wants us out of Iraq but he didn’t go much further. He also didn’t look at Barack as a threat, he didn’t make fun of him or smear his name, whenever he was mentioned it was only as “opponent.” Near the middle of the speech he went on to say
“I have Clinton laws, and since I can’t run for anything anymore I might as well pass them down to Hillary,” one that stuck out was “If people say you can’t win it means you can.”
His speech was full of stories and applause was enormous even though the New Castle Middle School wasn’t quite full to the brim. He ended with a very patriotic pro-Hillary voting. Before this giving us ammo to use if we wanted to change someones mind to go for Hillary, and then saying how if he wasn’t married to Hillary he would still think of her as a strong candidate.
Although it was a powerful and amazing speech, and despite the fact that I got to shake his hand..I still am unconvinced, not that I can vote anyway but I still like to say I go for someone. Just means I have to hear this all from Hillary, and then the other side of Barack.
Tags: Barack Obama, Billy Clinton, hillary clinton, Indiana, New Castle
