Bill Clinton steals Hillary's limelight - Telegraph

Bill Clinton steals Hillary's limelight - Telegraph: "Bill Clinton steals Hillary's limelight" By Toby Harnden in Amherst, New Hampshire Last Updated: 6:41am GMT 07/01/2008 Bill Clinton's new brief was to make the case for his wife Hillary as a woman of action and experience "who gets things done". St Barack and insurgent Huckabee ride high on voters' wish for change But he could not stop himself drifting back to his years in the White House and the glory days of his 1992 campaign. The more he talks, the greater the danger is that he harms Mrs Clinton's chances by focusing on the past when voters are looking for change and highlighting his star power compared to her own plodding style. Seven years after he handed over the presidency to George W. Bush, Mr Clinton can still make a persuasive case. He is now more bleary-eyed old sage, however, than the fresh-faced "Comeback Kid" of four elections ago when he fought back in the New Hampshire primary and went on to victory. The veteran warrior was still able to take some shots at his wife's nemesis Barack Obama, suggesting he was incapable of delivering on his lofty rhetoric. "Do you want a feeling of change or do you want the fact of change?" he asked the crowd. "Do you want words that sound good or action that changes your life for the better?"