Clinton's visit will help McCaskill, perhaps others
2006-09-08
Source: STL Today.com
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rss feedFormer President Bill Clinton's Saturday visit in St. Louis, which will be his first to the region in seven years, already has raised at least $1 million for state Auditor Claire McCaskill's Democratic quest to unseat U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo.
But when the former president attends a public rally that morning in University City, critics and admirers agree he will primarily evoke the past.
"Bill Clinton presided over eight of this nation's most prosperous years," said state Democratic Party spokesman Jack Cardetti. "We weren't paying $3 a gallon for gasoline when Bill Clinton was president."
Meanwhile, the state Republican Party joined national critics in asserting that Clinton's legacy also includes "a failure to fight what was then a war on terror," which the GOP contends helped encourage the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Clinton will visit just two days before the five-year anniversary of those attacks, and right before a scheduled ABC television network two-part series about 9/11 that reportedly places much of the blame on his administration. The former president and his allies have contended that the series, which the network characterizes as a docu-drama, is filled with inaccuracies and fabricated events.
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