Bill Clinton jabs playing well with voters

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/8025.html

So maybe Bill Clinton isn't quite so far off-message as we had assumed.

After two weeks of reports on the former president's temper, the former first lady's supposed inability to keep him on script, and the ostensibly dire impact on his legacy, Hillary Rodham Clinton has won two straight primaries.

If there are Democratic voters who share the assessment that he's a "liability" to the campaign — a term floated by outlets from The New York Times to the London Telegraph — this reporter and many others seem not to have found many of them. And though Clinton's original, improvised attacks on Sen. Barack Obama discomfited some inside his wife's campaign, they also seemed to hit their mark.

The campaign has settled on a new strategy: Turn Bill loose.

"There was a recognition that he has a huge megaphone and he can deliver a message in a way that breaks through," said a Clinton strategist, who insisted on anonymity. "The press corps certainly has Clinton fatigue, but a Democratic primary electorate certainly does not."

The logic is clear. Bill Clinton's approval rating stood at 79 percent among Democrats in one CBS poll this summer, and interviews with voters in the early states often find Democrats saying that her access to her husband's advice is a key reason for supporting Hillary Clinton.

Its too obvious, thats why he wants Bill out of the equation.

The party at large has a positive view of him.

Let his silver tongue take you down just like it did his own Presidency.

"That was decided in his head — there's no one telling Bill Clinton what he should strategically go out and do," said a senior Clinton campaign official.


glad to see nominee Hillary is in charge of this campaign

And, fortunately for the rest of the real world.