May 10, 2008
 

By Tony Rutherford
Huntingtonnewws.net Reporter
 
Wayne, WV (HNN) – Whether Hillary Clinton can emulate the ‘comeback kid’ reputation of her husband remains to be seen. Actually, from the current totals, you come to the impression that she needs a ‘Hail Mary’ miracle to overtake Barrack Obama.
 

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Politics has a strong fickle favor aspect. You can call them in unless the top party leaders set bulldozers on the campaign trail.
 
Where Mrs. Clinton had the ultra early primary presidential favorite, a charismatic junior senator from Illinois, Barrack Obama charismatically, in rock star fashion, captured the attention of young, often unregistered voters with a message of CHANGE.
 
During former President Clinton’s appearance before a crammed Wayne High School gym , the odds prognosticators would not have known her underdog status. True, Bill Clinton did say that Hillary’s shot at the nomination hinges on popular vote. Earlier, he told people in Madison that she needed a 700,000 to 100,000 victory to be convincing. That’s why West Virginia and Kentucky are so high on the charts as the primary season winds down.
 
Avoiding any swats at the democratic leader, Clinton reminded those in Wayne of the 90s, emphasizing the strides made in raising the poverty stricken to middle class.
 
“You have to vote for a President that you know can rebuild the middle class and give poor people a chance to work their way into it again and reclaim the future for the young people of America. That’s the American dream,” the former President said, stressing, “since I was president five million people have fallen back from the middle class into poverty and most are working full time.”
 
He spoke of uniting America from the suburbs to rural areas to where again “we have shared prosperity, shared opportunity and shared responsibility” scolding the Bush administration with “we are a very , very long way from that today.”
 
Instead of pushing the previously proposed gas tax holiday, Clinton addressed the law of supply and demand for oil.
 
“There’s a limited amount of oil in the earth and more and more people can afford to buy it. So if more people keep buying the same thing, the price goes up.”
 
The smooth speaking former President with a gift for connecting with simplicity told the crowd that his wife would work with auto makers to build more fuel efficient vehicles including those that run on batteries. Currently, the battery powered cars cost much more than gasoline driven ones, but he indicated that Hillary would push for a tax credit which offset the higher amounts paid for battery powered vehicles.
 
Turning to health care, he asked the audience how many were not covered by any plan. Under his wife’s administration everyone would have access to health care which would include those with preexisting conditions whose families often choose between food and medicine.
 
“We can’t bring the economy back if we keep letting doubling health care costs every seven years.”
 
Running about an hour or so late, Clinton spoke just shy of an hour at Wayne before moving on to his next appearance in St. Albans.
 
Hillary Clinton’s opponent, Barrack Obama has announced that he will visit the Mountain State Monday.
 
West Virginian’s go to the polls Tuesday.