Signe Wilkinson - 11.02.2006

Chip Bok - 11.06.2006

Bill Clinton was in town just the other day for on stumping for a fellow Democrat. He spoke for 20 minutes and here are a couple of quotes:

This is not your grandfather's Republican Party. It is the narrowest, most extreme, most ideological strip of the Republican Party that has run both the White House and the Congress for six years. And they basically favor the concentration of wealth and power as opposed to equal opportunity and empowerment. They favor special interest politics over the common good. And they favor ideological division over evidence and argument.

We have five years of statistical growth, five years of productivity increase, a 40-year high in corporate profits, but wages are stagnant, poverty is up among working families and the percentage of working families with health insurance for their kids has dropped 4 percent. And that's what you get if you have special-interest, status quo-oriented politics and an ideologically oriented economic theory.

Talking about how Independents and Republicans are fed up with the Bush administration's hard right ideology and the chaos in Iraq and are ready to cast the "diving board vote" Democrats hope will carry them to victory Tuesday:

That's where the country is now, that's where the undecided voters are. They're standing on the diving board, looking for somebody to grab 'em by the hand so they can jump off and do what they know they ought to do for their children and their grandchildren's future . . .

The least we can do is spend a few more days looking for people on the diving board and help 'em jump off.