Bill Clinton: "Chill Out" And Let Voters Decide

ABC News:

Bill Clinton, in an exclusive interview with Robin Roberts, said he thinks Democrats are torn between two candidates they like, and that it's time to "chill out" and let the voters decide who should be the party's presidential nominee.

"The voters get to decide. I think we should just celebrate this," Clinton said. "If we just chill out here and let all the voters have their say, my gut is it's gonna come out all right."

Roberts spoke to Clinton in New Orleans, where he was working with the Clinton Global Initiative.

When the conversation turned to politics and the tight race between his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the former president said Democrats are dealing with a difficult decision between two strong candidates. "I expect a spirited election in the fall no matter what happens," Clinton said. "But we should just let the Dems decide. This is a tough choice for them.

"They got two candidates, they basically like them both, and they have different strengths," he said. "And they have to decide which skilll set is more important number one for the country's welfare in the long run, and which one is more likely to be elected. And you know I have my strong convictions, but I might be wrong."

Though the campaign has taken some nasty turns, with surrogates and campaign members from each side making controversial attacks on the other, Bill Clinton said for most Democrats both candidates look good.

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Comments

[AC500]

News Bulletin: ... Bill, they already have ... and Hillary's lost. NOW will you both please just go away.

[AC500]

News Bulletin: ... Bill, they already have ... and Hillary's. NOW will you both please just go away.

[grumbles]

He does have a point. We have just seen an election negated in NYS. We saw an election negated for John Kerry of Swift boat fame. And lets not forget what they did to Max Cleland.
Who ever the candidate is, in whatever office he/she holds, the repubs will negate it with scandal or inuendo. I hate seeing the media elect our officials and , sad to say that is what is happening. Liberal media-MY LEFT FOOT!!!!!!

[iPolitics]

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Thursday found that more Americans view Bill Clinton negatively than positively, 45 to 42 percent. It marked the first time since January 2002 that a plurality of Americans disapproved of the former president.

[grumbles]

A paper solely owned by Rupert Murdoch runs a poll and you believe it???????

[iPolitics]

NBC News is very liberal. It's not soley the WSJ. I believe it b/c it's the same thing I've been hearing from friends who use to like the Clintons

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

Murdoch has contributed to HRC's Senate and Presidential campaign.

If it wasn't for Bill Clinton's signing of the Telecommunications Act in 1996, FOX NEWS wouldn't even be in existence today. Murdoch did it with Bill's help. Blame Clinton for Murdoch because Murdoch is a product of TELECOM DEREGULATION.

[BeyondGoodAndEvil]

If Bill Clinton had any idea about anything, he wouldn't have repealed the GLASS-STEAGALL act in 1999, which has led to the mortgage crisis we are now facing. Robert Kuttner testified before Congress that repealing Glass Steagall with the Graham-Leach-Bliley Act, which deregulated and let banks consolidate, which is at the root cause of the mortgage crisis. I am sick of Bill Clinton parading around like he was personally responsible for the tech and biotech economic boom of the 90's, acting like he and his wife have the answers to fix the economy and the recession. If he had any answers, he wouldn't have been so enthusiastic to throw out regulation any chance he got, leaving the door open for a Republican administration to take the ball and run. Clinton has a lot of nerve. He's also responsible for giving us FOX and Rupert Murdoch due to the 1996 Telecommunications Act:

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=547

Read about the mortgage crisis and Clinton's role below:

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/financialsvcs_dem/testimony_-_kuttner.pdf

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/23/recession

ROBERT KUTTNER: Well, you know, some people have this picture of subprime lenders as these neighborhood predators. They were put in business by Citigroup. They were put in business by Merrill Lynch. They were put in business by the bluest chip names on Wall Street.

The prime enabler under Clinton of deregulation was Robert Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury. And Rubin comes out of Goldman Sachs, then he goes to work as one of Clinton’s top guys. He presides over the repeal of the key piece of New Deal legislation designed to prevent conflicts of interest, the Glass-Steagall Act. And then he lets a short interval go by, and then he becomes chairman of the executive committee of Citigroup, which was only able to become the kind of conglomerate it did because of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act. Now, that’s a flat-out conflict of interest.

And so, what should the big banks do? Well, they should hang their heads in shame. But they’re not going to become converts to our view of the economy. We have to impose that on them as citizens through the democratic process of legislation and regulation. We have to fight the battle that we fought in the 1930s and onward and win it all over again, because, otherwise, if we don’t, the power of speculative finance is going to just wreck the economy for the rest of us.

http://digg.com/political_opinion/Bill_Clinton_s_role_in_the_Mortgage_Crisis_and_helped_Citigroup_get_started

http://www.progressivehistorians.com/2007/11/bill-clintons-role-in-mortgage-crisis.html

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/would-glass-steagall-save-day-credit/story.aspx?guid=%7B3AA33D85-AD38-41B4-B300-033235B5734A%7D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall_Act

[MoeGreen]

Thanks Bill for starting a lot of the crap with your yap but now tell others to chill out. Better late than never I guess.

[Tankan]

Jeez! Like the goggles Bill, you look like a real geek now!

[drmavis]

So now Bill Clinton wants the voters to decide the nomination? What about all of the Clinton cronies trying to set the stage for the "automatic delegates" to override the voters and give Hillary the nomination? Bill needs to go to his wife's campaign's delegate spin page www.delegatehub.com and review his talking points.

[vsign]

Obama is the one trying to steal this election. Hillary will have the popular vote when all the voters attending primaries get to vote. It is the job of the Independent Delegates to vote independently on what their conscience tells them is good for all Democrats and for the good of the party winning in the General.

Every time Obama and his supporters try to strong arm delegates or voters, he is acting like he wants to steal the election from the party and the real voters.

Also, the caucus delegates are not representative of real voters in these caucus states. For Obama to argue otherwise is another strong armed tactic.

Obama needs to be run out of the party just for trying to disenfrancise real democratic voters, let alone his black nationalistic ties and militant associations.

We do not want this kind of revolution.

[AxelDC]

Voters are deciding, and Obama is winning.

[DoAsISay]

Which voters? Caucus voters, primary voters, Limbaugh dems for Billary voters, or just the ones that vote for Billary?

[bdl0715]

Here's an article from the Boston Globe that says Republican's are voting for Clinton to help McCain in the fall. Alot of people that are voting for Hillary in the primaries will not vote for her in November.

The Republicans want to run against Clinton. Obama scares them to death.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/17/many_voting_for_clinton_to_boost_gop/

[WellbornBroad]

Mr. Clinton, are you trying to insinuate you've regained your credibility? Too late.
You have shown yourself to be a small, mean and completely irrelevant man.

[mrJJ]

One of Clinton's liabilities is Norman Hsu... The question is why hasn't the MSM taken a real hard look at Norman Hsu's backround? A con man and thief that had a "meteroric rise on the Democratic political scene". ROFLMAO really? Actually idiot Norman's picture as a youngster appears on an FBI B&W surveillance telephoto picture tagged (unidentified associates) of a NYC street gang tied to Chinese Organized crime based in the US...reference U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Asian Organized Crime (1984,1989, 1993). . Btw Norman did also funnel funds to Sen Barrak Obama's campaign...Interesting tidbit.. who directed Norman too the then freshman Sen Obama? .... ding ding ding... The Clinton's. No one has the history to a certain err element of ready, willing & able philantropists of an asian persuasion then the Clinton's. A walk through recent history may be in order for you youngsters.

Charle Trie
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/op080397.htm

Norman Hsu's Boss Chan Tse-Chiu aka Eddie Chan
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2D6173AF931A3575AC0A966958260

Norman
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5643329

Rendell had said last week he planned to keep nearly $40,000 of Hsu's money even though he was wanted for failing to appear for sentencing after pleading no contest to a felony charge of bilking investors out of $1 million.

"Though Norman is my friend, and remains so, his failure to appear casts a new light on his assertions regarding the original case," Rendell said in a statement before Hsu's arrest Thursday. "As a result, I will follow other elected officials and donate the money he contributed to me to charity."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/07/politics/main3240773.shtml

Reports are that former NY Chinatown Tong leader turned federal Informant Wing Yeung Chan has recently been escorted in and out of his facility by the US Marshall Service... I wonder if Chan Wing is being used to verify anything that Norman has reportedly told the told the US Attorney?
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1995/10/27/1995-10-27_judge_slaps_ban_on_leader_in.html

Rethugs are close but no Cigar... PRC link is total bull...I'm sure it was added to spice their article.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12220

[Tejano1]

G r e a t ! so even bill clinton agrees that the people should choose the candidate and not the superdelegates. i'm glad that he's being reasonable. but i wouldn't count on it.

[Dari]

It has been wisely said that all too often, WE SAY WHAT WE MOST NEED TO HEAR.

Since former Pres. Clinton is reputed as being one of the MOST astute politicians, you can wager a bet that this too is being said for some SPECIFIC affect.

However, the reality is this:

80% of the voters have "spoken" and they chose the opponent.

Regardless, of what the surrogates to your campaign say or do, your wife CANNOT win unless you are both willing to lose your legacies (polls already indicating that for you, Pres. Clinton), lose the White House (polls now putting McCain ahead) and lose ALL the seats that could have been won down ticket by the Dems with the Republican exodus from both houses of the Congress.

Too bad you and your wife can't take your own advice, and gracefully step aside and CHILL.