At a San Francisco fundraiser, New York Senator Clinton called her husband "the most popular person in the world right now." The Democratic presidential front-runner also indicated former President Clinton, saying that as president she would "continue the tradition of using former presidents" as diplomats around the world.
This part of the Clinton's effort to make President Clinton's impeachment taboo:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband.
With a swift response to attacks from a former supporter last week, advisers to the New York Democrat offered a glimpse of their strategy for handling one of the most awkward chapters of her biography. They declared her husband's impeachment in 1998 -- or, more accurately, the embarrassing personal behavior that led to it -- taboo, putting her rivals on notice and all but daring other Democrats to mention the ordeal again.
That's the lesson Washington Post writer, Anne Kornblut, draws from Clinton's ferocious response to onetime Clinton fundraiser, David Geffen's, vicious shots at the Clintons in his interview with Maureen Dowd:
Bill Clinton's womanising is not over and the scandal associated with him could sink Hillary in a general election and allow a Republican to be elected
"I don't think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person," Mr. Geffen says, adding that if Republicans are digging up dirt, they'll wait until Hillary's the nominee to use it. "I think they believe she's the easiest to defeat."
Hillary has no common touch and cannot relate to ordinary people
"It's not a very big thing to say, 'I made a mistake' on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can't," Mr. Geffen says. "She's so advised by so many smart advisers who are covering every base. I think that America was better served when the candidates were chosen in smoke-filled rooms."
The Clintons are unprincipled liars
"Marc Rich getting pardoned? An oil-profiteer expatriate who left the country rather than pay taxes or face justice?" Mr. Geffen says. "Yet another time when the Clintons were unwilling to stand for the things that they genuinely believe in. Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling."
[Excerpts Courtesy of the Telegraph]
Hillary overreacted to the Geffen interview. The impeachment of President Clinton and his success in surviving the affair prove that attacking Bill Clinton is a losing political strategy. Bill is still extremely popular among the Democratic faithful. By anointing Bill the world's most popular, Hillary has chosen a better strategy.
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Bill's popularity might benefit her; but Hillary will likely be her own worst enemy. She's gotten so uptight these past six years; she's hardly the same person that a huge swath of middle America loved and had both confidence and trust in.
I don't want to see a Clinton or a Bush in the white house for as long as I live. Both families have put their own interests over the countries well being and I don't ever see that changing. We need fresh honest leadership not politics as usual.
"Differently principled" is always the key.
I'd rather hear a sketchy outline of the truth and engage in some pseudo discourse then listen to a puppet looping a tape that says they will tell me nothing.
There's just nothing engaging about the later; and it gets aggravatingly annoying.
If she gets into office, I wonder who she will get to babysit little Billy from all the young interns there? She can afford to pay well.
tomi r.- -How many wars unsanctioned by the UN did Billy get into? Can you even ut a number on them without extensive research?
People who live in glass hoses better be careful about where they throw stones.
Bill Clinton, every chubby girls dream date.
Hillary may get the nomination but she won't get elected, not because she is a woman but because of who she is.
I might vote for her just to help level the playing field for when she was beaten up by the neocons for "Hillary Care."
Yes, indeed, she is a formidable candidate, with or without Bill. He'd make a good ambassador. If she could clone him, he could single handedly, so to speak, get us back in some kind of good graces with the rest of the world. His smarts don't hurt either. I would worry though about where his global interests lie -- same as I worry with Hillary -- as in not with ordinary Americans who aren't thrilled with the perpetual waging of war to support a "military" economy.
Wonder what Geffen's real beef or agenda is. Did she not agree to spend the money the way "he" would like? More to this than meets the eye and more than Bill's failure to pardon Peltier.
Vickey,
There isn't a candidate out there who doesn't have some dirty laundry. Mother theresa is no longer with us so she can't run. Perhaps Old Billy has gone to the a Ted Haggard-ish rehab camp?
Lying under oath about having a illicit but legal consensual affair -- is a bootstrap way trying to make up an impeachable offense out of an illicit affair. Its absolute nonsense. Of the Presidents from FDR to present all but two or three had such affairs. Our country became the laughing stock of Europe, not because the President had an affair -- but because of what Congress did with it.
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And, we're the laughing stock and loathed for letting Bush and his neocon supporters run amok and allowing him to destroy our own democracy while forcefeeding the neocon's bastardized version of it to our new- found "democratric" allies, the Iraqi's -- make that the Iraqi sunni's.
Hillary has been having some interesting things to say and asking good questions of those who are giving testimony on National Security and other issues. Of course, that doesn't make me feel better about her ultimate intentions or, should I say; does she have ulterior motives? I don't need her to apologize for anything -- I just need to know that she has our own best interests at heart.
There is no doubt in my mind that she can do anything she puts her mind to do. I always thought she was the "sensibly" brilliant one. Let's just say I don't trust her the way I would "Ike" -- who must be fairly rolling around in his grave right now.