If anyone doubted something I've written repeatedly on this page--that Bill and Hillary Clinton prefer to see a McCain victory on November 4th, so that Hillary can run unencumbered in 2012--just get a load of Bill today with the ladies of "The View," and in other interviews, as he prepared to open his Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
He could not have been sweeter in his tributes to John McCain and, especially, to Sarah Palin. Although using the word "hot" in relation to her was probably not the most politic word choice. "I come from Arkansas, I get why she's hot out there," Clinton said. "Why she's doing well."
Speaking to reporters before his Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, the former president described Palin's appeal by adding, "People look at her, and they say, 'All those kids. Something that happens in everybody's family. I'm glad she loves her daughter and she's not ashamed of her. Glad that girl's going around with her boyfriend. Glad they're going to get married.'" Clinton added that voters would think, "I like that little Down syndrome kid. One of them lives down the street. They're wonderful children. They're wonderful people. And I like the idea that this guy [Todd Palin] does those long-distance races. Stayed in the race for 500 miles with a broken arm. My kind of guy."
Regarding John McCain, Bill paid tribute to the naval aviator's years as a prisoner of war and said that McCain is the only Republican who can win. He quickly added that Obama would win and that he [Clinton] will be supporting and campaigning for Obama/Biden.
Anyone inclined to believe that Bill will check the box next to the Obama/Biden names on November 4th only has to listen to his claim that Hillary did not want to be Obama's Vice President because she could do more important work in the Senate--where of course, anyone who follows politics knows that every senate vote will come back to haunt her the next time she runs for president, as that vote for the Iraq war haunted her during the '08 primaries. If Bill had said that she plans to oust the accidental Gov. David Paterson and become governor of New York in order to polish her credentials for her next try for the White House, now that would have been believable.
Instead he claimed that she did not want the second spot but would have taken it because she always puts her country before her self interest. "She would have been the best politically, at least in the short run, because of her enormous support of the country," Clinton said. "She said 'If he asks, I'll do it because it's my duty.'"
If Obama wins and does well as President, then in 2012 people will just re-elect him and not vote for Hillary Clinton.
If Obama does horrible as President, then people will not vote for Democrats and will just vote for Republicans.
Thus, the McCain/Palin ticket has to win to ensure that Hillary Clinton becomes President in 2012.
On top of that, Sarah Palin as Vice President would excite more confidence towards people in having Hillary Clinton as President in 2012.
More and more prominent Hillary Clinton supporters are supporting McCain/Palin’08.
How can you honestly post such drivel about Palin after her interviews, especially the Couric one!
Are you REALLY on that "Bridge to Nowhere"....or should I say "No Sense".....to la-la-land?
Pull your head out of the sand and join reality with people who are intelligent enough not to be swayed by some sort of twisted sense of sisterhood!
cut these two loose after the election - they are not your friends.
If he continues along THIS line, it will help Obama.
I think he's doing what has been asked of him and not mudslinging. Sit tight....
why the hell has nobody figured this out ?!?!?!?
Bill says "that Hillary did not want to be Obama's Vice President because she could do more important work in the Senate . . . "
So when she repeatedly stated personally during and after the primaries directly that she would be proud to be on Obama's ticket and through surrogates that she would make a great VP and her being on the ticket is necessary for Obama to win (and we have plenty of videotape of her and Huffpo posts as recent as this month to prove that), she was what? Just joshing? Being insincere? "Just doing what politicians do"?
The saddest part isn't that the Clintons lie so often, it's that they do it so calculatedly, obviously, and without the slightest sign of remorse. Consequently, they haven't built a foundation for her to run in 2012, even if Obama were to lose. They've dug her political grave. And a really, really deep one, too.
Who watches "the View" ? Mostly women, and as a woman I can see why some women like Sarah, but this does not mean that they think she should be elected VP. Women might have gotten mad if he just piled on her. Killing the enemy with kindness, as they say. I think it's a smart move.
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Shame on you.
Oh, yeah,... Joe Lieberman.
Funny, but Bill is sounding like Joe.
Barack, take note!
O burned his bridges with all Clinton Dems, such as myself.
Anyone who wins the way he did has no room to complain later.
They deserve exactly what they got: tarnished legacies, damaged reputations and a guarantee that Hillary will never be POTUS.
This is also why I'm not a Dem anymore.
I do not agree with the majority viewpoint. In short, we parted ways.
anyone who uses rovian style gutter tactics has no room to complain when they lose. reap what you sow...
Ignore them, discuss the issues.
Given all that has and is happening the citizenry owe it to themselves to look past politicians and think a bit harder, go a bit further...
Thank you for all the other posts here... Keeps my grey matter firing!