Desperation makes for strange bedfellows.
How else to explain President Barack Obama's call for help from the man who once said Obama should be fetching coffee for him and Ted Kennedy?
That man is former President Bill Clinton, who in an attempt to buttress Obama's sagging campaign for re-election, agreed to give the key nominating speech for Obama at the Democrat Party convention in Charlotte, N.C., beginning Sept. 3.
Since Obama can't run on his own dismal performance as president -- not with a stagnant economy, staggering trillion-dollar deficits, inflation and stubbornly high unemployment -- he might as well take over Clinton's record and run on that.
Four years ago, when Obama made mincemeat out of Hillary Clinton's campaign for president, Bill Clinton, in a state of shock, made the coffee remark to the late Ted Kennedy after Kennedy announced he would endorse Obama over his wife Hillary.
Even though there is not much to select from among Democratic leaders, Obama could have done a lot worse than choosing Bill Clinton in the hope of lighting a fire under his increasingly dirty presidential campaign.
Not only can Clinton deliver a good speech, he can deliver a long one, especially when he is talking about himself and what a great president he was.
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