And you just can't imagine what he meant?

Matt, this line of Bill's has upset me, too, from the first time I heard it. It's quite obvious he is trying adapt an old conservative line of attack, by pushing the idea that Obama voters are nothing more than a coalition of the (Volvo-driving, latte-sipping) elite and young political neophytes (students) who can afford to dabble in the Obama campaign as a hobby.

Funny how quickly Bill forgets what an important part African-Americans and young voters played in his campaigns. I suppose neither group no longer needs a President?

But the Clinton Administration wasn't consistently wonderful news for working people of any age or background. As DF wrote above, blue collar voters in Wisconsin and elsewhere have been gradually trending toward Obama as they get to know him better. I'm a lower income voter and lifetime loyal Democrat who has plenty of concrete, policy-related needs (from consumer and academic debt to healthcare) -- and I'm an Obama supporter. I think it's terrible that Bill Clinton has stooped to the point of trying to write people like me out of existence in their desperate grasp for the nomination. That's not the Bill Clinton I volunteered and voted for in '92 and '96 That Bill Clinton was hopeful and inclusive; he promised "to stand up for the forgotten middle class". Now we don't exist --unless we support his wife.