After attending Ted Kennedy's funeral early in the day, Bill Clinton and Al Gore appeared together at the Jackson Day Democratic fundraiser here in Nashvillle on the evening of August 29. Ticket sales for the event were through the roof and the Tennessee Democratic Party raised $600,000. Clinton and Gore urged the crowd of some 3,000 Democrats to honor the legacy of Ted Kennedy and do whatever it takes to pass health care reform this year.
“We need to pass a bill this year. Doing nothing is not only the worst thing we can do for the economy, it’s the worst thing we can do for the country. It’s also the worst thing we can do for the Democrats. Democrats, you stay in there with your congressmen and you get this done.”
“We have a lot of talk about liberal and conservative, and left and right, but when there are tens of millions of people in our country who can’t get access to health care, we need to pass health care reform this year. Build support for it. Let's give President Obama the victory our country needs.”
Thanks to Christian Grantham for the video clip below of Bill Clinton and Al Gore making the case for health care reform to a crowd of enthusiastic Tennessee Democrats. You can see Bill Clinton's entire speech here.
“We need to pass a bill this year. Doing nothing is not only the worst thing we can do for the economy, it’s the worst thing we can do for the country. It’s also the worst thing we can do for the Democrats. Democrats, you stay in there with your congressmen and you get this done.”
-- Bill Clinton
“We have a lot of talk about liberal and conservative, and left and right, but when there are tens of millions of people in our country who can’t get access to health care, we need to pass health care reform this year. Build support for it. Let's give President Obama the victory our country needs.”
-- Al Gore
[The country has] “a moral duty to pass health care reform. This year.”
