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Clintons Stump With Biden for Obama

Posted on: Monday, 13 October 2008, 12:00 CDT

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton returned to their roots, taking their message to blue-collar voters in Pennsylvania.

The two U.S. senators stumped Sunday in Scranton in hard-scrabble northeast Pennsylvania, an area that was cool to Democratic standard-bearer Barack Obama in the state primary, The Washington Post reported Monday.

"It took a Democratic president to clean up after the last President Bush; it's going to take a Democratic president to clean up after this president," Clinton said during a rally with Biden.

Scranton is Biden's home town. Clinton's grandfather worked in the Scranton lace mills, her father is buried here, and she spent childhood summers in a family cabin on a lake nearby.

Obama's Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain of Arizona , has been to the region twice since securing the nomination while his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, mentioned Scranton in her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. Palin is scheduled to speak in the city Tuesday.

"Barack Obama and Joe Biden are for you, and that's why I am for Barack Obama and Joe Biden," Clinton said. "My friends, this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. ... This is a fight for the future, and it is a fight we must win."

Former President Bill Clinton also was on stage with his wife and Biden before taking off for another campaign appearance.

Source: United Press International

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