Bill Clinton can still electrify a crowd. The Big Dog
yesterday at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in L.A.:
"Gray Davis and I have been friends a long time, and I don't want this to happen to him. But this is way bigger than him.
"It's you I worry about. It's California I worry about. I don't want you to become a laughingstock, a carnival or the beginning of a circus in America where we just throw people out, soon as they make a tough decision. Don't do this. Don't do this.
"Don't shred your Constitution. Don't shred the fabric of government. Don't tell people Californians are so impatient that they give somebody an employment contract and then tear it up in the middle because times are tough. This is the right thing to do, to beat this recall."
Arnold's spokesman Sean Walsh responds:
"While we acknowledge that Mr. Clinton has support from a certain segment of the California electorate, it is Gray Davis who is on the ballot, not Bill Clinton. And to use the now famous line from Mr. Clinton, 'It's Gray Davis, stupid.' "
Schwarzenegger and his handlers just love to use cliches 'til the cows come home...even some that weren't written by screenwriters.
