While I was at the LA Times looking for an article about the politicization of science, I found this:

Clinton Tries to Unify Party Behind Kerry

By Maria L. La Ganga, Matea Gold and James Gerstenzang
Times Staff Writers

2:24 PM PST, March 16, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO — Former President Bill Clinton, one of the most popular figures in the Democratic Party and one of the most polarizing across the political landscape, took on a leading role today in an intense, 10-day effort to unify party members behind John Kerry's presidential campaign — and to contribute to it.

Clinton was being joined by his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, and at least half a dozen other party leaders and strategists in an effort to level the playing field against the record-setting fundraising President Bush has accomplished. The Democrats' goal is to raise $10 million in 10 days. Bush is trying to run up his overall total to $170 million.

The Clinton work is leading up to a party fundraiser late next week at which he and former President Jimmy Carter will be the leading speakers.

Clinton's role is something of a gamble for Kerry, already embroiled in a tough and nasty contest with Bush. As appealing as Clinton is to many Democrats, Republicans have grown accustomed to using him to personify the traits and policies that most grate on their core supporters.

Experts on the presidency are unanimous in their belief that Clinton's fundraising prowess will be a boon, but beyond that his impact is unclear.

Clinton "will help energize the base and loosen the dollars from the donors. That's what he's being brought in to do," said Stephen Wayne, professor of government at Georgetown University and author of "The Road to the White House." "He can bring in a large African American and Hispanic voter turnout."

Beyond that, Clinton — at least for Democrats — may be coming to personify the economic well-being that marked his years in office, as well as the role the United States played in the world then. And, Wayne said, his enduring popularity among Democrats and some other voters has transcended the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment vote that grew from it.

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I was never a Clinton fan. He's a liar. But, given the appalling record of the Bush Administration, anything that he can do in terms of money or logistical aide is welcomed.