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Published March 26, 2008 11:39 pm - Instead of a rousing rendition of “Hail to the Chief,” former President Bill Clinton emerged Wednesday at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center as West Virginia’s unofficial theme song, “Country Roads,” blared over the sound system. Bill Clinton: ‘She can be elected’ Ex-president emphasizes job growth, troops’ return By Amelia A. Pridemore THE REGISTER-HERALD (BECKLEY, W.V.) BECKLEY, W.Va. — Instead of a rousing rendition of “Hail to the Chief,” former President Bill Clinton emerged Wednesday at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center as West Virginia’s unofficial theme song, “Country Roads,” blared over the sound system. More than a decade after West Virginia helped him become president, Clinton said he never has forgotten the state. He pledged his wife will never forget it, either, if she has the state’s support. Clinton spoke at a “Solutions for America” event, campaigning for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He emphasized his wife’s campaign is not over, and said West Virginians can make her the nation’s first female president. His remarks came less than a week after Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Clinton’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke at the same venue. “She can be elected president, and West Virginia can help,” he said. After the Iowa caucus, some were ready to “dance on her grave,” he said. But she won the New Hampshire primary. California, Texas and Ohio voters also gave her the nod, even though she was outspent. He said the former first lady and New York senator is the candidate to beat Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, namely because she can win such states as Ohio and Florida. “She just kept winning ... and it was because of people like you,” he said. “You can do it. It’s up to you.” While the United States is a great country, he said, it is in a “bad fix” now — because of the economy, namely. “Why are we in a fix?” he asked the crowd. Several in the crowd repeatedly chanted, “Bush.” The former president said the Bush administration and “extremist” members of the Republican Party in Congress had “showered” millionaires and special interest groups with tax cuts. “We went back to the trickle-down economics, which never worked,” Clinton said. “They said it would all come back to us. “When I was president, we had 8 million people move from poverty to the middle class. That’s the American dream. Five million are now back in poverty. That’s the American nightmare.” Ending dependence on foreign oil would create two more positives, according to Clinton. Americans could find themselves far less affected by gasoline price spikes — possibly not at all. New jobs would be created as the nation produced alternative energy — like “clean coal” from West Virginia. That produced more cheers from the audience. “These are tomorrow’s jobs,” he said. “Make (Hillary) president, and she’ll do that.” He noted a grim, recent milestone — 4,000 American troops have been killed in Iraq. Another 30,000 have been wounded. 
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