Bill Clinton: “Thank you. We wanted to come by and thank you. I know that you had to come here; you didn't get in the other room. You…”

“Thank you. We wanted to come by and thank you. I know that you had to come here; you didn't get in the other room. You had to listen; you couldn't see. But if it's any consolation, you are much, much cooler than anybody in that other room is right now. And I just want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being so good to me and the First Lady and the Vice President over the last 5\1/2\ years, for the support that I've gotten from people from North Carolina, especially from my number one North Carolinian, Erskine Bowles, who has been a wonderful Chief of Staff. I want to thank you for your commitment to John Edwards. And I want to ask you--you know, you heard us talking in the speeches about his proposal today to Senator Faircloth that they give up the ads and just spend all their money paying for honest conversations with the people of North Carolina. I think that's a good idea. You just think about how it would change politics in America forever if North Carolina had an election in which there were no 30-second attack ads and the two candidates sat down around a table or maybe had 20 or 30 or 50 citizens sitting with them and honestly discussed the issues on television where everybody could be a part of it, write them, tell them what they thought, decide what they agree with, what they disagree with. Think about it. It would recreate old-fashioned citizenship again. Now, if you like that, don't let it be one letter in one statement in one day.…”