Full Swing In Iowa

(CBS)  While the focus in Iowa this week has been on a certain political couple, on this Fourth of July, Hillary and Bill Clinton are not the only show in town, CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod reports.

Democrat Barack Obama is here for some front-porch campaigning — one of four Democrats and three Republicans in what's today's campaign capital of the United States. So is Republican Mitt Romney. Iowa is where you'll find second-tier Republican Sam Brownback, and Democrats Joe Biden and Chris Dodd.

In fact, at times it looks like Fourth of July anywhere. Neighbors bumping into each other at a parade — only these neighbors are jockeying to be leader of the free world.

Why so busy here?

In six months Iowans hold their caucuses, the first votes cast in the process to elect the next president of the United States. For the first time in more than half a century, there's no incumbent president or vice president running in either party — it's wide open.

"I don't recall a time when we've seen this many candidates in Iowa over the Fourth of July," political analyst David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register told Axelrod.

Other states may move their dates up, but Iowa's still first. The place where longshots can pick up momentum and front-runners can implode.

"Everything is bigger, it starts earlier, there are more candidates, there's more money, there's more staff, its just more of everything," Yepsen said. "And its kind of fun."

Fun for that reporter, maybe. For the candidates, it's serious stuff, even when it looks like you're just having a little ice cream on the Fourth of July.

[jbb333]

Are we better off than we were eight years ago? NO!

That's why a Democrat will be President in 2008.
If it's Hillary Clinton, the irony (as far as I'm concerned) would be really, really sweet revenge. But I'll easily live with any of the candidates on the Democratic side.

The Clinton Haters are the same loud, obnoxious, tiny minority that they are when they post as the loud, obnoxious tiny minority called The Loyal Bushies.
Go away.
Has The Worst President Ever done even ONE THING RIGHT?

[randalds]

I know that the neo cons biggest fear is Hillary becasue if she is elected and she probably will be then her and Bill will be back in the White House and if things get better and they can get no worst. Well, fill in the pictures people that would prove that the neo con though process is a waste of time.
Posted by antoniof123 at 11:31 AM : Jul 05, 2007

That's true. The neocons worst kept secret is that they don't hate Bill Clinton, they're scared of him. He terrifies the hell out of them because he was the best and most popular president since Roosevelt and they have no one who can even come close to him. If it wasn't for the 22nd amendment he'd STILL be president.

[realpatriot1]

thisandthat1,

Maybe while she's in Iowa she can perfect a midwestern twang.

The Clinton machine must be really worried about Obama to be sending out the Bubba May Day call this early.

Bill's atonement as part of this public couple's therapy is revolting but watching him squirm while she speaks does provide some entertainment value.

[antoniof123]

I know that the neo cons biggest fear is Hillary becasue if she is elected and she probably will be then her and Bill will be back in the White House and if things get better and they can get no worst. Well, fill in the pictures people that would prove that the neo con though process is a waste of time.

[thisandthat1]

All these ridiculous pictures of them arm in arm, smiling and holding hands! (PUKE!) After banging everything that moved for 30+ years, I think she'd throw him in front of a train if she thought it might further her own career. Now, when I see Hillary Clinton, my Senator from NY (yeah, right!), I laugh thinking about the phoney southern drawal she came up with when speaking in front of a mostly black audience down south. Give us a break!

[prinzowhales]

infidel_us--Yes, she will probably be a 'flak catcher' and then the inevitable 'dark horse' candidate will move to take the lead...like the Rockefellar-sponsored Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Perhaps Edwards will be the standard bearer... low negatives--the MSM won't touch his Senate Intelligence Committee complicity in the Iraq War with a ten foot pole and he evidently has the support of the Bilderbergs. The saga of his poor wife, understated, will win him the sympathy vote. As a trial lawyer, he is a natural actor and has mastered the art of personna projection--something that Bill was superb at...but, he does have the advantage of being a complete sociopath...the laughs to tears performance at the Brown funeral was simply amazing.

[jack3213]

Prinz-
I could not have said it better! KUDOS to you.

[prinzowhales]

If there is anything more contemptible than a supporter of Bush, it is a supporter of the Clintons. Is the memory of the American people so short as to not recall the hardened satellite technology transfers to China and the payoffs? Or to remember the pardons of criminals, including the spy, Marc Rich? Or, the insane health care 'reform' that Hillary's Pig Pharma Committee came up with? And the 'Arkansas suicides'? How about the Bush/Clinton partnership in crime at Mena Arkansas...the arms, drugs and money laundering through the Arkansas Redevelopment and Finance Corporation? The president who led the 'war' against drugs... the one of whom his own brother said, 'he has a nose like a vacuum cleaner?' The witness against the son of the HHS Secretary who was murdered? Instead of supporting Clinton, why don't you do something relatively hygenic-- go swimming in a hog lagoon.

[infidel_us]

the next president will have a heck of a cleaning job
Posted by abbe7 at 08:04 AM : Jul 05, 2007

Better elect a woman president with a bucket and a mop! :)

[infidel_us]

The "Hill-Billery" tour has begun! :)