" Bill Clinton, fresh from an appearance at the Democratic convention that confirmed his status as President Obama’s No. 1 surrogate and all-around B.F.F., took to the campaign trail in this battleground state on Tuesday, declaring that “we’ve got a lot of reasons to vote, and we’ve got a good candidate to vote for.”
Speaking to a sellout crowd of 2,300 at Florida International University, Mr. Clinton reprised much of the detail-laden defense of Mr. Obama’s first term that he delivered in Charlotte, N.C. He lavished special attention on two particularly resonant issues in a state with many students and older voters: education loans and health care.
Repealing Mr. Obama’s health care law, as Mitt Romney has pledged to do, would “weaken Medicare; it’s going to run out of money quicker,” Mr. Clinton said. The Republicans, he said, would cut off the access of students to low-interest federal loans, which could put college out of reach for many middle-income people.
Mr. Clinton, speaking with a little less brio than he did in Charlotte but no less detail, offered a forceful defense of Mr. Obama’s presidency, saying that nobody could have been expected to heal the damage from the recession in a single term.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/us/politics/bill-clinton-hits-trail-as-surrogate-for-obama.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120912
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