World News 26-10-2004 Frail Clinton Joins Kerry Campaign who: Bill Clinton what: Joins John Kerry on campaign trail where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when: Yesterday snippet: "A trim but pale Bill Clinton rose from his sickbed yesterday to electrify the desperately tight American presidential race," says Roland Watson in The Times. "Walking slowly but smiling broadly, the former President and quadruple bypass patient emerged from his convalescence and thrust himself into the campaign with just seven days left before the election." "From time to time I have been called the comeback kid," he told 20,000 Democrats at a convention in a park in Philadelphia, quoted in The Sun today. "In eight days John Kerry is going to make America the comeback country." "Quadruple heart bypass surgery has left him thin and drawn. He looks all of his 58 years," comments the BBC`s Adam Brookes. "As he looked out over an enraptured crowd, you could see a flicker of the old Clinton - one of America`s most formidable and magnetic political campaigners." "Philadelphia is the key to Mr Kerry`s chances of winning the vital state of Pennsylvania," says The Telegraph`s Alec Russell. "With a week to go before voting, and Mr Kerry just ahead in Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio - the three main battlegrounds - Democrats hope that Mr Clinton`s appearance can be the boost their candidate needs to overcome lingering misgivings about his abilities." [... more]

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