Bill Clinton

State Senator Raymond Lesniak, one of the state’s most powerful political insiders and perhaps the New Jerseyan with the closest and longest personal ties to the Clinton family, seems to think Barack Obama will be the 2008 Democratic nominee for President.  "It's over,” Lesniak told Home News columnist Rick Malwitz. 

It was a silent stare down between two presidents’ daughters Monday in that murky swampland of North Jersey, as Caroline Kennedy and Chelsea Clinton took up opposing positions on either side of a rain-splattered Hackensack River.

Kennedy sat on a stool on stage with Sen. Barack Obama, lending the campaign not only her presence as a Kennedy but as the daughter of President John F. Kennedy.

State Democratic Party Chairman and Assemblyman Joseph Cryan told the crowd at the Clinton rally in Blackwood on Tuesday that Sen. Hillary Clinton's gender alone makes her substantially a change-agent.

Bill Clinton, joined by Gov. Jon Corzine, campaigned in Camden today: Getty Images Photo

After receiving criticism for his role in his wife's presidential campaign in New Hampshire and South Carolina, former President Bill Clinton stuck to a lawyerly script in Blackwood today, exactly one week before New Jersey's Feb. 5 primary.

"You must vote for someone not just to make history, but for someone who's going to build the future," said Clinton, in the one unnamed reference to Sen. Hillary Clintons chief opponent, Sen. Barack Obama.

In his second New Jersey appearance for his wife's campaign in as many months, Clinton told a crowd of 1,500 in Camden Community College's Papiano Gym that the most important reason to elect his wife as the Democratic presidential nominee is because she is a "proven change agent."

Women state legislators supporting Barack Obama for President stood together at Democratic State Committee headquarters in Trenton on Monday to put a collective exclamation point on their endorsement of the Illinois senator.

Senators Shirley Turner and Loretta Weinberg; and Assemblywomen Linda Greenstein, Elease Evans, Cleopatra Tucker and L. Grace Spencer said Obama is the candidate best equipped to deliver change.

Bill Clinton and Bob Menendez in 2006. Hillary Clinton's National Finance Co-Chairman thinks Menendez should run for VP
Former President Bill Clinton will appear in South Jersey tomorrow to campaign for his wife.

Clinton will attend a rally at the Papiano Gymnasium at Camden County College in Blackwood. The rally is scheduled from 10:15am to 12:15pm

The campaign stop comes less than a week Hillary Clinton attended two rallies and a fundraiser in northern New Jersey last week, and two and a half months after Bill Clinton headlined a fundraiser in New Brunswick.

Eldridge Hawkins was first elected to the State Assembly in 1971
Veteran African American leaders backing Sen. Hillary Clinton admit that while she doesn't have great speech-making abilities, she and her husband presided personably over a White House attentive to important issues like urban crime and children's healthcare.

But those who support newcomer Sen. Barack Obama can't forget Clinton's affirmative vote on the war in Iraq, and say their man is better poised to inspire a beleaguered nation.

Either way, each side concedes it's an historic time for the Democratic Party and the 256,059 registered African American voters here, and a chance for New Jersey to play a vital role in its first ever early primary on Feb. 5th.

A big Bill Clinton fan, Dave says he believes the former president's wife is better suited to be president than Obama.

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