Bill Clinton Campaigns for McCain/Palin

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.'"

Comments

[US Patriot]

If we want Hillary Clinton to become President in 2012 Barack Hussein Obama needs to lose this election.

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.

[MM216]

No, they aren't and if they're fools to do so (support McCain/Palin) then I hope they can stand the fallout of their DISASTROUS decisions!

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!

[Wigelah]

You don't like him when he's forceful, you don't like him when he's passive. You don't like him when he's breathing. He's damned no matter what he does or says. When he says he thinks Obama will win, you don't think he's sincere enough. He's a democrat. He's not a republican. He gets one vote just like everyone else. This has become ridiculous. And Rude.

[MagisterLudi]

Good and sincere post, Wigelah. It is difficult ( if not impossible) for me to believe that most of the True Believers posting here are true Democrats. The quasi religious element in supporters of current Dem Nom's readily apparent. No one who read these pages can deny its existence. I am repelled by it.

[toochie50]

Barack and Joe:
cut these two loose after the election - they are not your friends.

[Iluvdarin]

I absolutely agree.

[MM216]

I'll say this....anyone who thinks Bill and Hillary will be voting for McCain on Nov. 4 should take "A Bridge to La-La-Land", LOL

[karronna]

Take a look at the Daily Show video.
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....

[MagisterLudi]

U.S. is a country of celebrities. Obama supporters can' t forgive Clinton for being popular. While you are still fighting the primaries, Republicans are laughing watching O.B. is abandoning one state after another. Latest one is North Dakota with Florida soon to follow. While Biden ( who?) can't even get lure a reporter onto his plane. With Clinton the country would've been sewn up. Instead, your guy wanted to do a Kobe Bryant and will follow Dukakis, Mondale and Kerry into twilight.

[GiggidyGeshmoygen]

bill and hill are self-serving stealth bushies --

why the hell has nobody figured this out ?!?!?!?

[jcorrington]

I think most of us have, Gigg. Its just so so disappointing. I used to like Bill and Hill.

[standard]

Excellent post!

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.

[Faith101]

Look, this election is too important to be distracted. People are going to vote their pocket book, everybody is getting hammered by this republican regime. Being broke, unemployed, uninsured don't know color. The color is GREEN and I for one want more of it.

[kashe]

Hmm. . .I think that Bill was just trying to undo all the "Liberals hate Sarah" stuff that's out there, the "look how sexist liberals are" stuff. . Notice, he did not elevate her above being a mom. How many times did he mention "mom." Clever, if you ask me. Make me think of Srah as a mom, not a VP.

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.
.

[pumpkin]

Hey, Bill. Remember that little joke McCain told at that Republican fund raiser? The one about your wife, but more importantly, the one about how ugly your teenage daughter was? Remember how everyone laughed?

Shame on you.

[gaja]

Not to mention how the repugnicans regularly referred to Hilary with the b word - and they are the ones crying SEXIST every day?? And McCain thought that was HILARIOUS --and you keep calling him a great man?? You are pathetic, Bill...

[MrBU]

Bill Clinton reminds me of someone who always praised the republicans, one who also lost in a primary. Remember that guy Bill said would caucus with the democrats?

Oh, yeah,... Joe Lieberman.

Funny, but Bill is sounding like Joe.

Barack, take note!

[closerthanuthink]

Please, Please, Please! How can you folks be so distracted? 9.5 TRILLION in federal debt, increasing to the tune of 1 billion a day - a DAY! - King Paulson asking for a US$700 billion blank check - banks already complaining it won't be enough - and the MSM SILENT, when not posturing (or touting King Paulsons credentials as a former football player - read American Hero in the making!), accepting the bailout as a done deal! It's the economy (stupid) - so start complaining about THAT! Write your congressmen or whatever, scream, make some noise - scratch that - MARCH ONTO WASHINGTON - just say no! Or else a victory in November will mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

[hudsuckerproxy]

I couldn't agree more. The Clinton psychodrama (which I don't pretend to understand) is irrelevant. The swing voters Obama needs are losing sleep over the economic crisis, not over Clinton's half-assed support of Obama.

[MagisterLudi]

The psycho drama is simple---envy. The Obama lipstick wearers cannot forgive Clinton for being popular. This is a lot more fun that dealing with ever shrinking poll numbers and abandonment of campaigns in several states.

[PumaAnn]

Bill was generous in his remarks about O, which is far more than O was about him. O burned his bridges with Bill during the primary.

O burned his bridges with all Clinton Dems, such as myself.

Anyone who wins the way he did has no room to complain later.

[dct1999]

Bill burned his bridges with the black community, and millions of other democrats, during the primary. Anyone who loses ugly like the Clintons did have no room to complain, and no reason to claim that they unfairly called r.a.c.i.s.t.s.

They deserve exactly what they got: tarnished legacies, damaged reputations and a guarantee that Hillary will never be POTUS.

[PumaAnn]

I have a completely different perspective.

This is also why I'm not a Dem anymore.

I do not agree with the majority viewpoint. In short, we parted ways.

[GoodGuysandBadGuys]

"Anyone who wins the way he did has no room to complain later."

anyone who uses rovian style gutter tactics has no room to complain when they lose. reap what you sow...

[gaja]

WHEN was Bill generous with his remarks to Obama?? I was a big Bill supporter - so believe me, I was paying attention. And I didn't hear it. All I heard him do for months was continue to act like a bitter, sore loser...

And do not profess support for Hilary and then VOTE for everything that is exactly the opposite of what she stands for. That is hypocritical. Just admit that you would rather throw the country down the drain and vote for a completely UNPREPARED, DECEITFUL, and ARROGANT posse of Rove-wannabe's rather than vote for a QUALIFIED, INTELLIGENT, and THOUGHTFUL African-American man. Be honest with yourself!

[MM216]

You know what, you're not a Democrat right now because all you've done is dis them right and left.
Just say you're a Republican and get it over with!

[RayMD]

Why don't people take Bill's advice about an opponent and apply it to him?
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!