The Most Popular Man In The World!
Hillary's Commandment
By California Yankee Posted in 2008 — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
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:
Read on...
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.
« Dueling June Obama fundraising claims? — Comments (2) | No Strings — Comments (2) »
The Most Popular Man In The World! 6 Comments (0 topical, 6 editorial, 0 hidden) Post a comment »
Am I the only one who thinks Hillary sounds like a girl who was unpopular in high school and is taking her revenge some decades later? "My husband is the most popular man in the world." Sheesh. What is this, 90210?
"I'm kind of old-fashioned. I like to engage my brain before my mouth." Donald Rumsfeld
The problem however, is that Billy Boy is the epitome of Teflon. Not only does nothing stick to him, but something about him seems to inspire insipid loyalty from all those around him and tolerance from most everybody else. The man is truly one-of-a-kind in that ability (thank God).
____
Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged. — J. Michael Waller
supporters assume Bill is the bad man. Former loyal major $$$ guy states the obvious about their total lack of character and Bill goes ballistic.
Teflon fading
Bill no longer the cool customer
losers
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Lyrics
Fee, fee, fi, fi, fo-fo, fum
Look at Monica now, here she comes
Wearin' her wig hat and shades to match
She's got high-heel shoes and an alligator hat
Wearin' her pearls and her diamond rings
She's got bracelets on her fingers, now, and everything
She's the devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on
Sing it with feeling!
_______________________________
Dennis Miller for President...no more wimps!
The gift that keeps on giving - I mean taking.. From Friday's WSJ (subscription required)
"...In reality, the AMT is one more liberal monster that was created in the name of soaking the rich but has now come back to swallow the middle class. Democrats created the AMT in 1969, amid a political frenzy to capture a mere 21 millionaires who had paid nothing. And the politician most responsible for the AMT's relentless expansion in recent years is none other than William Jefferson Clinton.
Remember the 1993 tax hike that was supposed to fall only on the rich? In addition to raising gas taxes and Medicare payroll taxes and income tax rates, the Democratic Congress that year also raised the AMT: from a 24% flat rate to a dual tax rate of 26% on AMT income up to $175,000 and 28% on AMT income above that amount.
It's true that the 1993 bill slightly increased the AMT's family income exemption, but Democrats refused to index those exemptions for inflation. So the combination of the higher rates and the failure to index for inflation has caught more and more middle-class taxpayers in the AMT's maw. From 1992 to 2002, this Clinton stealth tax hike increased sixfold the number of filers paying the AMT, to nearly two million from 300,000..."
Thanks Bill and Hill.. Now please get out of our lives.
====
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." -- James Madison
So why was Hillary always smacking him around & calling him something that rhymed with brotherducker?
Bless the Clintons, they're a two freak carnival.
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville