The 2 things Bill Clinton shouldn't say in an interview

[shereads]

On NBC tonight, asked about his new friendship with Bush Sr. and if it was true that he let the older man have the only bed on the plane during their tsunami relief trip:

"I can sleep anywhere."

Considering the positive and negative impact if a more progressive pope is chosen:

"When I've made mistakes in my political life, I was always trying to ram too much down the system, too soon."



Brian Norcross should win a special Pulitzer Prize for not laughing. I suspect Bill does this on purpose. I would.




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I called a friend to see if she was watching the interview. She's amazed by the friendship between Bill and Bush Sr.

"I guess it makes sense, when you think about it," she said, "This is the answer to Clinton's father complex."

"Yes, and Bush Senior's son complex."

Edited to add: This is how I imagine the trip to Rome on Air Force One yesterday: Bush Sr. and his new pal Bill Clinton chatting away about tsunami relief and golf and the pope and the economy and the environment, and carefully avoiding any mention of the touchy subject of Iraq...and Dubya, Barbara's favorite son, chomping pretzels and scowling like the kid in Calvin & Hobbes.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . and Dubya, Barbara's favorite son, chomping pretzels and scowling like the kid in Calvin & Hobbes.

Nawh! Calvin would have enough imagination to see that the pretzels are scowling back.

 

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[CharleyH]

I think he snored 'Buy new dress', but he might have been dreaming.

 

[shereads]

I loves me some Bill.

That randy scofflaw cheers me to no end whenever I hear him speak these days. Oh, to have a president who could pronounce big words and the names of foreign leaders without looking relieved to have gotten it out. A president whose eyes are far enough apart that I never found myself thinking, "Well of course the poor thing isn't first in his class; how many smarts could fit into a brain pan that narrow?" Ah, the good old days. Remember peace?


I don't either.



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[Guest]

Edited to add: This is how I imagine the trip to Rome on Air Force One yesterday: Bush Sr. and his new pal Bill Clinton chatting away about tsunami relief and golf and the pope and the economy and the environment, and carefully avoiding any mention of the touchy subject of Iraq...and Dubya, Barbara's favorite son, chomping pretzels and scowling like the kid in Calvin & Hobbes.

I believe Calvin is more intelligent than Bush II.

But both Calvin and the Shrub believe in the existence of imaginary animals, so I suppose it's a toss-up.

 

[Huckleman2000]

I miss Bill. Through it all, he still managed to have a Wonk's focus on stuff that mattered.

I'd love to see Hillary in '08. I don't know that she can win, but GOD, would that be the biggest thing since Lincoln freed the slaves!

 

[shereads]

I miss Bill. Through it all, he still managed to have a Wonk's focus on stuff that mattered.

I'd love to see Hillary in '08. I don't know that she can win, but GOD, would that be the biggest thing since Lincoln freed the slaves!

Oprah Winfrey could win the White House in a heartbeat. She's a brand name with no controversy attached to it.

Hillary, God bless her, can't win. She could in a more progressive decade, but the people who are on the fence about a woman president would turn out in droves to make sure it wasn't someone controversial. For her own sake, I'd hate to see her go down in defeat to Bush III or Tom DeLay or whatever idiot savant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are assembling in the basement.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Oprah Winfrey could win the White House in a heartbeat. She's a brand name with no controversy attached to it.

Hillary, God bless her, can't win. She could in a more progressive decade, but the people who are on the fence about a woman president would turn out in droves to make sure it wasn't someone controversial. For her own sake, I'd hate to see her go down in defeat to Bush III or Tom DeLay or whatever idiot savant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are assembling in the basement.

Unfortunately, I think you're probably right.

Still, it would be SO AWESOME!

 

[Boxlicker101]

Oprah Winfrey could win the White House in a heartbeat. She's a brand name with no controversy attached to it.

Hillary, God bless her, can't win. She could in a more progressive decade, but the people who are on the fence about a woman president would turn out in droves to make sure it wasn't someone controversial. For her own sake, I'd hate to see her go down in defeat to Bush III or Tom DeLay or whatever idiot savant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are assembling in the basement.

I think, barring the unexpected, that John McCain will be the Republican candidate in 2008. I also think there will be a female president sometime in the next twenty years. I don't think it will be Hillary, though.

Does anybody besides me remember that the first serious candidate for the presidential nomination of a major party was Senator Margaret Smith of Maine in 1964?

 

[Huckleman2000]

I think, barring the unexpected, that John McCain will be the Republican candidate in 2008. I also think there will be a female president sometime in the next twenty years. I don't think it will be Hillary, though.


Does anybody besides me remember that the first serious candidate for the presidential nomination of a major party was Senator Margaret Smith of Maine in 1964?

Okay, you're not going to convince me you were a Boxlicker in 1964....

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . whatever idiot savant Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are assembling in the basement.

I take exception to your characterisation, “idiot savant.”

It is obvious to me that you have forgotten the definition of “savant.”

 

[Colleen Thomas]

McCain's too liberal. too honest too. I think the GOp will put up Bill First. he made his play in the Schaivo case to establish his jesus freak credentials. Now he is backing off and letting De Lay spew, to show he's "moderate" enough for the Gop middle.

If hil runs, I think it's a dead lock the GOP will win, even if they run Mr. Ed.

 

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I take exception to your characterisation, “idiot savant.”

It is obvious to me that you have forgotten the definition of “savant.”

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[Boxlicker101]

Okay, you're not going to convince me you were a Boxlicker in 1964....

I licked my first box in late September, 1959. I was a few days short of 20 years old. She was a Japanese prostitute named Amy and I was in the Air force, stationed at Tachikawa Air base. I really enjoyed it and I have been licking boxes ever since, but not Sen. Smith's or Hil's

 

[minsue]

McCain's too liberal. too honest too. I think the GOp will put up Bill First. he made his play in the Schaivo case to establish his jesus freak credentials. Now he is backing off and letting De Lay spew, to show he's "moderate" enough for the Gop middle.

If hil runs, I think it's a dead lock the GOP will win, even if they run Mr. Ed.

Sadly, you're right all around.

Though I will never get how McCain has such a liberal taint. He's just plain not liberal. For one, he rarely breaks from the party line when he votes and for another, when he does it's usually to vote conservative. True conservative, before the NRA & Moral Majority took over the GOP and twisted the entire definition.

 

[Boxlicker101]

McCain's too liberal. too honest too. I think the GOp will put up Bill First. he made his play in the Schaivo case to establish his jesus freak credentials. Now he is backing off and letting De Lay spew, to show he's "moderate" enough for the Gop middle.

If hil runs, I think it's a dead lock the GOP will win, even if they run Mr. Ed.

I think that if McCain goes after the nomination, he'll get it, even if the party bosses object to him and if W endorses somebody else. I think anybody will beat Hil, even the guy that beat Asshole for the Senate seat from Mo. and he was dead even then.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I licked my first box in late September, 1959 . . .

Damn! That's over nine lustrum of perversion.


Way to go!

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Damn! That's over nine lustrum of perversion.


Way to go!

John Wayne fan? Or katherine Hepburn?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Sadly, you're right all around.

Though I will never get how McCain has such a liberal taint. He's just plain not liberal. For one, he rarely breaks from the party line when he votes and for another, when he does it's usually to vote conservative. True conservative, before the NRA & Moral Majority took over the GOP and twisted the entire definition.

He isn't liberal, in the sense you are liberal goosey, but he is a free spirit and he does vote old school conservative values. He also speaks out against the win at any cost menatlity, especially when the GOP has attacked verterans, of any party.

I'd vote for him, easily. He's about the best Washington has to offer, IMHO.

You canbet U.S. servicemen won't be sent out lacking basic thing slike armor on his watch and you canbet if it had happened, Rummy's butt would have been in a sling he couldn't have double talked his way out of.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

John Wayne fan? Or katherine Hepburn?

I was a Roman census taker in a previous incarnation.

 

[minsue]

He isn't liberal, in the sense you are liberal goosey, but he is a free spirit and he does vote old school conservative values. He also speaks out against the win at any cost menatlity, especially when the GOP has attacked verterans, of any party.

I'd vote for him, easily. He's about the best Washington has to offer, IMHO.

You canbet U.S. servicemen won't be sent out lacking basic thing slike armor on his watch and you canbet if it had happened, Rummy's butt would have been in a sling he couldn't have double talked his way out of.

What in the hell has happened to the political spectrum when voting conservative values makes a politician liberal?

I've never voted for him because the sad token candidates that actually bother to run against him have so far had values far closer to my own, but I respect him far more than most politicians. It's pretty rare that he doesn't toe the party line, but when he does he's (publicly) unapologetic about it. I do wish he voted his conscience more often than he does, considering the number of GOP backed bills that he has criticized in debate and then voted for, but I don't blame him. Not gonna get anywhere alienating the party bosses even more than he already has, even a media darling like him.

 

[shereads]

McCain's too liberal. too honest too. I think the GOp will put up Bill First. he made his play in the Schaivo case to establish his jesus freak credentials. Now he is backing off and letting De Lay spew, to show he's "moderate" enough for the Gop middle.

If hil runs, I think it's a dead lock the GOP will win, even if they run Mr. Ed.

McCain used to be honest. He sold his soul when he hugged GWB for the cameras and called him "a man of great moral integrity."

Edited to add: I think you're right. "Bill First" is excellent bumper-sticker material, and that's the first hurdle.