Thousands Mob Clinton In Berkeley

A mixture of Arsenio Hall style woofing, high pitched screaming and chants of "we love you" gave Clinton's appearance the feel of a rock concert more than a book signing by a political figure.

There were a lot of signs about defeating Bush, people engaged in voter registration, and some antiwar signs. But, there didn't seem to be much interest in Clinton as a politician as much as Clinton as a symbol of a pre 9/11 world and perhaps even Clinton as an Elvis like sex symbol.

Almost all the crowd reacted negatively to talk of Clinton's shifting of the American political discourse to the right and his bombing of Iraq, Serbia and Sudan. But its likely that many in the crowd disagreed with Clinton and was either engaging in lesser evilism or just wanted to treat seeing Clinton as an excuse to think back to a world without a Patriot Act, an Iraqi Occupation and constant fear mongering about terrorism.

With an election comming up things will get interesting with the "anyone but Bush" camp starting to get traction backed up by real anger. Gore probably would have done most things Bush did but tell that to the new "anyone but Bush" camp and you will likely get a rock thrown in your face. People want to forget the last four year. While Clinton's foreign policies were in places just as bloody as Bush's, the public had an easier time ignoring it. The radical-left has an uphill battle.