More than 4,000 supporters of Al Franken and Barack Obama gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center Thursday evening to hear President Bill Clinton stump for the DFL Senate candidate. Clinton spoke for 35 minutes, urging Minnesotans to elect Obama and Franken.

In addition to Clinton, the rally included a who’s-who of Minnesota DFL politicians: State Sen. Taryl Clark and Rep. Mee Moua, State Auditor Rebecca Otto, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Rep. Keith Ellison, Mayors Chris Coleman and R.T Rybak, former Vice President Walter Mondale and House Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher.

They asked the crowd to volunteer their time and money to Franken and Obama.

Kelliher: “Our biggest enemy right now is being too complacent. We need to work like we are 10 points behind.”

Ellison: “Don’t you feel history coursing through your veins?”

Klobuchar: “Are you tired of that sub-prime leadership in the White House?”

Mondale: “I can feel victory in the air, and here we are just a few days away from what I consider one of the most fateful elections in American history, and it is close and we must fight complacency.”

Franken: “I am privileged to say the Clintons are my friends. But more important, they are friends of the middle class, of working men and women in this state and this country I’m running to represent.”

Clinton: “Unless the wheels come off, Barack Obama’s going to be elected next Tuesday… It’s never too late to get more votes for Al Franken and Barack Obama. You should not give up on that.

“If you elect Obama and you don’t elect Franken, the Republicans in Congress will say ‘Wow, we dodged a bullet.’ You need to understand that if you want the most to come out of this election.”