Letters to the Editor
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funny
It seemed to be Obama was the one who likes to play nice with Republicans and only criticizes Democrats.
Maybe he deserves some criticism, since his so-called platform is looking more and more like Republican Lite.
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Time to send clinton out to pasture
I might actually vote for Hillary if she would only divorce him.
We need his sluttish baggage like a hole in the head.
Hillary has enough of her own.
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"How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?"
Bill's performance (no other word really fits) over the last few weeks will do squat for Hillary's negative ratings in advance of the general election, continually reminding so many people about what they despise about the Clintons. He is accomplishing what I would have figured an impossible feat: becoming more prominent in this campaign than George W. Bush. That's not a good thing.
At this point Mr. Clinton would best serve his wife's and his party's interests by laying low and staying quiet. But that's not exactly his strong suit, is it?
One more time, Dan Hicks:
"How can I miss you when you won't go away?
I keep telling you day after day,
But you won't listen, you always stay and stay,
How can I miss you when you won't go away?"
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Winning is winning
Or would you prefer another pointless noble flame-out?
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Boring. The Clinton trashing has reached critical mass
You hysterical media people always go too far. The pile on will help Clinton once again. Sad to see Salon jumping on this cheap bandwagon.
Boring.
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Enough Already!
Someone else made the comment in another column about how the Republicans are going to use all of this against us. Against us! Not just Hillary and not just Obama. Us. And this right here, this shit and infighting is exactly what is used to defeat the Democrats, year after year. Well, for crying out loud, how about giving all of this a rest? Bill has attacked Obama AND Obama attacks Bill. It's not one way here. And you don't think Michelle Obama is out campaigning for her husband just like Bill is campaigning for Hillary. I'm sure she says major shit about Hillary and Bill, herself. The ONLY difference is that Bill is a past president and the media is hungry for a feeding frenzy so they follow him around and not Michelle. And I'm sure, if Obama is elected that Michelle will part of many decisions he makes.
Bill bashing is just another piece of this the Republicans will love. And your piece Walter, is just another hand off to them that we get to lose by.
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22 million jobs
"We created more than 22 million jobs". Slick Willie was just plain lucky. He floated up on the Dot Com boom. He did not create that.
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Many people will vote for Hillary because they want Bill.
No polls track this group of voters. This is politically incorrect. But it is true.
Many American women admire Hillary, and find reasurannce in the idea that near-genius, articulate, successful-compared-with-all-recent-presidents Bill Clinton would be there to help Hillary.
Oonggahwah!
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The Beverly Clinton Show
Let me tell you a little story 'bout a man name Bill
He was President twice & then he called "its time for Hill!!!"
So they loaded up their car and they moved to New York City
When a man named Barack got in their way--they mowed him down--
and more's the pity--
*for America that is...*
(audience: she won't renounce water boarding!!!!)
Let me tell you a little story 'bout a gal named Hill,
She was in the White House twice, then thought "I haven't had my fill!!!"
She sat in Congress for eight years and she was for the Iraq War
When Bush said "Now Iran!" She said, "Yes! That's right! More...."
* war that is...*
original lyrics brought to you by: The Billaries
This program is sponsored by the Democratic Party of the United States, 2008
(R.I.P. Barack HUSSEIN Obama, muslim, drug dealer trying to destroy the nation...tee hee
R.I.P. international peace movement
R.I.P. "Anybody who stands in our way....!" Bubba Bill
R.I.P. Iraq War Dead...and counting....)
--metermaid
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a theory on "the Clinton marriage"
This is just a hunch, but I suspect that Bill and Hill stayed married after the Monica humiliation for one reason: Hill's future run for the White House. And then...Iowa!-- a shocking development for them which made real the possibility that she might not get in. What? Eight years in a dead marriage for nothing? Fury!! at the press, at Obama, at the gods.
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Move On Already!
There is little sadder than a rebel whose cause has been accomplished and there's nowhere to go but home. Bill Clinton was a really good President (in the humble opinion of this writer), and frankly I don't give a rat's ass about his personal conduct, although it is disturbing that his wife didn't seem to either, and almost had to be prodded to react, presumably for future political purposes.
One cannot drive well or safely when one's eyes are firmly fixed on the image in the rear-view mirror. Where we have been is of no use, no value to us now. Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing, and it is a good part of what is driving the current Clinton campaign. Don't think it's just some Boomers who are nostalgic for those days. It's pretty clear Bill is too, and that both he and his wife had presumed a certain place in the American Royal Line -- which does not exist.
The tactics Bill Clinton used to thwart -- by the slightest of margins -- people like Newt Gingrich, in the 90s, are not now appropriate nor are they helpful to the greater cause of righting the nation. It has all become very personal and petulant, and it is going to damage Hillary's ambitions beyond repair, if it hasn't already (it appears now that the infamous and rather long-lived email idiocy about Obama's "Muslim background", etc., actually did, as I have long suspected, originate with someone in the Clinton campaign staff).
Looking backwards is simply no way to move forward, which is why I lost interest in Hillary Clinton from the word Go. Same reason I had no interest in any of my own party's collection of loons, goons and buffoons. Same ol' same ol'. We've flogged ourselves long enough with the past and imitations of the past.
The Clinton years were great fun and I look back on them fondly, but what I wish for most of all now is freedom from the known. Those who fail to learn history may be doomed to repeat it, but so are those, apparently, who do learn history, since it is the only roadmap they have and it keeps leading back to where we already were.
For the health of the Democratic party (and I do wish for that also, as I believe we need the balance of a strong two-party system) and for the nation, Mister Bill needs now to practice magnanimity and quietly and graciously assume the role of elder statesman. He has been great at that up til the recent craziness broke out.