Clinton tells Obama he's ready to bring it ...to the dance floor Michael Roston

Published: Wednesday January 23, 2008



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Print This Email This Former President Bill Clinton has faced a lot of challenges in his life, but that doesn't mean he isn't ready to face the latest power struggle confronting him: proving once and for all who the best Democratic dancer is on the campaign trail. Clinton overcame a broken home, losing re-election after his first term as Arkansas Governor, and skepticism about his presidential ambitions in the 1990s. And according to the New York Times' Katharine Q. Seeleye, he isn't afraid to prove his dancing skills to Senator Barack Obama either, any time, any place. "I would be willing to engage in a dancing competition with [Obama], even though heï¿½s much thinner and younger than I am, but only if I got an age allowance,ï¿½ the Times' Caucus Blog reported the former President saying in a Greenville, South Carolina town hall meeting. Clinton's humorous remark was prompted by one of the many strange moments in Monday night's Democratic presidential debate in South Carolina. CNN's Joe Johns asked Obama if he agreed with poet Toni Morrison that Clinton was America's "first black president." "I would have to investigate more Bill's dancing abilities, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was actually a brother," the senator answered. On a more serious note, Clinton reflecting on the transformation that could be caused by electing a woman or a black man as president. "I think it would be just as much a change, and some people think more, to have the first woman president as to have the first African-American president.ï¿½ he declared in the meeting. Seeleye's report can be accessed at this link.



