Fmr. President Clinton Sends Letter to Wife’s Supporters

ABC News’ Tahman Bradley Reports: In a e-mail letter to supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s D-N.Y., campaign, former President Bill Clinton said he is enthusiastic about his wife’s run for president and that he hoped supporters could raise $1 million in one week.

"Am I enthusiastic about my wife’s campaign for president," Clinton writes, "You bet I am. I know her better than anybody on earth, and she’s got the best combination of mind and heart of everybody I’ve ever known."

The former president admitted Sen. Clinton’s ’08 bid is off to a good start, but warned that Republicans are out to derail his wife’s effort to become the first woman to win the White House. "During eight years in the White House, Hillary and I faced a constant barrage of attacks from Washington Republicans. No insult was off-limits. No tactic was too low. They threw everything they could at us — but we beat them time and time again, " he said.

Clinton–who has been away from the media spotlight since his wife stepped into the race–called on supporters to retched up their fundraising "to demonstrate the range and breadth of Hillary’s support by raising one million dollars in grassroots donations in a week’s times."

"Look, with Republicans using everything in their arsenal to stop her campaign, Hillary is going to need every one of us to do everything that we can for her."

President Clinton’s letter comes one day after Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill, one of Sen. Clinton’s chief ’08 rivals raised a stunning $1.3 million at a Hollywood fundraiser thrown by Dreamworks’ founders David Geffen, Steven Spielberg and Jeffery Katzenberg.

The Clinton and Obama camps traded jabs, through press releases to reporters on Wednesday about a New York Times column in which Geffen reportedly told Maureen Dowd that,"Everybody in politics lies, but (the Clintons) do it with such ease, it’s troubling."

The Clinton campaign called on Obama to cut off ties to Geffen and return the funds he help the Illinois legislator raise. Obama’s team shot back with a reminder that Geffen, who twice slept in the Lincoln bedroom as a White House guest, helped former President Clinton raise $18 million in his campaigns.

Former President Clinton, the chief political advisor to Sen. Clinton (as she has said), is expected to help the former First Lady at by attending a Washington, D.C. fundraiser on March 20th.