Austin, TX

They just couldn’t get enough—that’s both President Bill Clinton and the students at the University of Texas at Austin. Clinton kept bounding down the steps of the bell tower at UT to greet screaming students. He leapt towards the surging crowd as students climbed on others shoulders to shake hands and take pictures with the former President. Clearly enjoying it, Clinton came down three times to greet the cheering students.

About 7,000 people listened to Clinton for an hour and learned that it was his daughter Chelsea’s birthday. He mentioned it when telling the crowd that even is he wasn’t married to Hillary he would be out campaigning for her:

“I want to tell you this, I do love my wife I plead guilty and especially today this is our daughter’s 28th birthday and she has been out here working,” Clinton said, “This is the anniversary of the happiest day of my life. “

He was introduced by actor Sean Astin and former Housing and Urban Development Director Henry Cisneros. There were Barack Obama supporters with signs and a man with a huge “Investigate 9/11″ sign, but they stayed mellow not interrupting Clinton. There was only one Ron Paul supporter who heckled with a bullhorn at the top of the speech. He called the former President a liar, abortionist, and a murderer. But, was quickly escorted out with no further interruptions.

Like all of his rallies in Texas, he began his speech with early voting and reminded the Longhorns of the Texas two-step: voting in both the primary and caucuses on March 4th:

“Don’t you think your country is worth 2 votes? Don’t you think your future is worth 2 votes?

He told the students—most would have been between ten and fourteen years old at the end of his presidency—about his wife’s health care plan saying that many of the students would not buy health insurance unless it was mandated, but he understood why:

“A lot of you would not buy it because you think you are young and healthy,” Clinton continued with a sigh, “I’ve been there. I know. I can still remember.”

Watch the Bill Clinton greeting the UT students:

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