Ted will probably want to keep his speech short....

...because the 42nd president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, is the featured speaker Saturday at a Strickland-Fisher fundraising luncheon at a downtown Cleveland hotel, and, once he starts talking, it's likely to go on for a while.

It's Clinton's first foray into the Ohio gubernatorial race, although his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, has been in to help raise money for Ted Strickland and U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown.

The Strickland-Fisher campaign is asking for a minimum $100 contribution for the luncheon at the Intercontinental Hotel, although the ticket order form on the campaign web site has boxes for donors to check ranging from $100 to $2,500.