Overwhelmed With Grief, Aging Rock Star and Special Envoy to Haiti Abandons Post, Flees to Massachusetts to Campaign For Coakley

I heard Bill Clinton the other night saying how desperate the situation in Haiti is. Which makes you wonder how he, as "special envoy" to the crippled country, can find the time to abandon the suffering people to go campaign for a hack politician from Massachusetts. No wonder he and Obama roped George W. Bush into the Haiti relief effort. They're too busy stumping for Martha Coakley.

With the race unexpectedly close and the election just four days away, former President Bill Clinton traveled to Boston today to urge Democrats at a boisterous rally to work hard to elect US Senate candidate Martha Coakley.

"You just have to decide whether you want us to be a tomorrow country or a yesterday country," Clinton told about 750 of the Democratic faithful in a packed ballroom at the Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel.

"I love my country, and I love Massachusetts," Clinton added. "Say yes to Martha Coakley, and don't let anybody say no."

Coakley, the state’s attorney general, is facing a tough challenge from Republican State Senator Scott Brown, who was little known until this race but who appears to be surging in some polls. A Suffolk University poll released Thursday suggested the two candidates were in a statistical tie, with Brown holding a 50-46 percent edge, with a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points. Independent Joseph L. Kennnedy is also in the race.

Brown appears to be surging. Uh, yeah. I'd say so. Let's see. He was behind by 30 points a few weeks ago and now appears to be ahead comfortably.

In addition to the aging rock star, Democrats also exhumed aging gigolo Liveshot, a/k/a/ John Heinz Kerry.

Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee for president, who attended the rally along with Governor Deval Patrick, said the race was crucial.

"The voting here is going to determine the balance of power in America, and with it, it is going to determine the fate of what we started with Barack Obama a little over a year ago," Kerry said.

Sounds like an endorsement for Brown if you ask me.

“Bill Clinton is a rock star in Massachusetts,’’ said US Representative Edward Markey, Democrat of Malden, predicting that the last-minute surge of national Democratic help will seal the election for Coakley. “The Democratic base now has the activating fluid’’ to get out the vote, he said. “ The Democratic activists are now up and working, energized, and ready to go.”

Just don't get any of that activating fluid on any blue dresses.