Bill Clinton's Novel Role: the Spousal Envoy

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Bill Clinton's Role

The Today Show aired a segment with a local NBC reporter interviewing former President Bill Clinton in a diner. This is a calmer Bill who has realized he can promote his wife's candidacy but not defend it. This is a penitent Bill Clinton. Will this silence the critics? One thing that bothers me about this segment is the edits. There is a point where Bill says one sentence and it quickly cuts to another part of the interview. What the hell did he say in between? I will probably never know. When I post videos, I usually try to upload the entire segment because I like context. I like to know what was said before and after the "sound bite." Yes, it takes more patience than our one minute culture, but at least I can fathom some semblance of the truth. Transcript below. [lien] [EN]

BILL CLINTON, SPOUSE IN CHIEF

I have a confession to make to my fellow conservatives: I don’t hate Bill Clinton. Don’t get me wrong. I have a pronounced animus toward his policies, what he stands for generally, and his scorched earth, take no prisoners, political attack dog style of politics. But I have to admit to a sneaking admiration of Bill Clinton, as a man. He isn’t someone I’d want to sit down and have a beer with. This is someone I’d love to go on a lost weekend with. He appeals to the juvenile in all of us men – a rogue’s rogue who I could see playing marathon poker games and going on weekend trips to Vegas. Good cigars, good whiskey, and of course, the guy is a chick magnet. No, he’s no gentleman. But if I ever had an impulse to lose control and regress back to a time when I had few responsibilities and less judgement. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Tries to Tamp Down ‘Fairy-Tale’ Remark About Obama

The Clinton campaign moved Friday to try to quell a potentially damaging backlash over recent comments by Bill and Hillary Clinton that have drawn criticism from African-Americans just as the presidential primary campaign reached Southern states with significant blocs of black voters. Former President Bill Clinton called into Al Sharpton’s nationally syndicated talk radio show to say that his “fairy tale” comment on Monday about Senator Barack Obama’s positioning on the war was being misconstrued and that he was talking only about the war, not Mr. Obama’s overarching message or his drive to be the first black president. “There’s nothing fairy tale about his campaign,” Mr. Clinton said. “It’s real, strong and he might win.” Mr. Clinton’s fairy-tale line and a comment by Senator Clinton that was interpreted by some as giving President Johnson more credit than the Rev. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Draws Hundreds in Ohio

CLEVELAND — Bill Clinton stuck to the script on Tuesday during a rally at a community college near Cleveland, keeping the focus on his wife and steering clear of any fresh remarks about Senator Barack Obama. But Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's ever-watchful campaign aides still seemed nervous that the former president would serve up a rerun of the kind of comments that set off a major controversy in South Carolina last week. Reporters were shooed away from the rope line and sternly warned not to ask any questions as Mr. Clinton posed for photos with hundreds of supporters after the speech. His performance at Cuyahoga Community College was classic Clinton, alternating between self-deprecating jokes and long discourses on arcane federal policy. But he never strayed far from his central message. [lien] [EN]

Fewer Want Bill Clinton Back in the White House

The negative coverage of Bill Clinton over the past couple of weeks seems to have hurt his standing with the public. A new survey finds that fewer voters these days like the idea of the former president being back in the White House. Forty one percent of registered voters told the latest Pew Research Center survey that they disliked the idea of Mr. Clinton back at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, which could happen if his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, is elected president. In October, 34 percent of voters disliked the idea. The latest survey was conducted between Jan. 30 and Feb. 2, after a couple of weeks of heightened media attention to Mr. Clinton's increasingly dominant and visible role in his wife's campaign. Pew surveyed 1,502 adults and the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton: I’ll ‘Promote Her but Not Defend Her’

Bill Clinton has more to say. For one thing, he says he has learned that it was wrong for him to try to defend his wife because it makes him the center of attention. He says he should stick with trying to promote her, not defend her. The former president discussed these things at a diner in Maine with Rob Caldwell of WCSH, the NBC affiliate in Portland. Asked if he had any regrets about anything he had said or done, Mr. Clinton said: “Everything I have said has been factually accurate. But I think the mistake that I made is to think that I was a spouse like any other spouse who could defend his candidate. I think I can promote Hillary but not defend her because I was president. I have to let her defend herself or have someone else defend her.” He added: “Whenever I defend her. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton to Speak at Denver Convention

CHICAGO — Yes, Bill Clinton will have a role at the Democratic convention. After a curious week of back-and-forth between the Obama and Clinton worlds, the former president was offered an invitation to speak on the second-to-last night of the party’s convention in Denver. He will take the stage on Aug. 27, three Democratic senior officials said, before the address by the party’s vice-presidential nominee. The offer was extended by the Obama campaign on Thursday to Mr. Clinton, who accepted it. So with Mrs. Clinton speaking on Aug. 26, followed by her husband, the Obama campaign is giving two nights of prime time coverage to the Clinton family. While the invitation was only extended on Thursday, officials said a speaking role for Mr. Clinton had long been in the works. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton on Palin, Arkansas

Former President Bill Clinton has certainly been making the rounds. This morning he was on “The View;” in the afternoon he sat down with a small group of journalists, ahead of the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. And he’s also doing Letterman, the Daily Show and Larry King Live later this week. During today’s interview, Mr. Clinton spent a good deal of time discussing the financial crisis, international development and climate change. But he also said that his home state of Arkansas could swing Mr. Obama's way, (even though polls don’t show this state in his favor) and said that he “may do something down there with the Democratic Party.” (Mr. Obama has not invested heavily in Arkansas.) “My crowd down there thinks he can win. If you win Arkansas. [lien] [EN]

Meeting Bill Clinton

(Note: details of the meeting follow my personal narrative!) A couple of weeks ago I received an invitation to represent Feministe as a credentialed blogger at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, which kicks off today in NYC. I was psyched, a tad skeptical, and more than a tad nervous all at once. I’ve never been invited to participate in anything as A Blogger, much less something this high-profile. I tend to think of myself as a relatively little fish in the blogosea, and all sorts of self-doubt about whether I was really qualified for this or deserved it started running through my head. All of this anxiety was amped up exponentially when I got the additional invite to participate in a blogger meeting with President Bill Clinton before the start of the CGI meeting. I responded to the invite right away. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Says Hillary is a “World-Class Genius”

[Guest post by DRJ] Bill Clinton is campaigning for Hillary in New Hampshire and he thinks Hillary is a world-class genius: “Calling the ability to help others the most important quality in a president, Clinton first compared the successes of his administration in creating jobs and other areas to the failures of the Bush administration before finally turning the focus to his wife, a New York senator. “The reason she ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in life, whether it was in elected office or not, that she is a world-class genius in making positive changes in other people’s lives,” he said.” Bill Clinton’s speech is a classic illustration of the difference between liberals and conservatives. [lien] [EN]

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton an iPhone user

3 Responses to “Former U.S. president Bill Clinton an iPhone user” · Democrats @ 2008 Presidential Election » Former U.S. president Bill Clinton an iPhone user says: December 22nd, 2007 at 6:31 am […] Symbian News created an interesting post today on Former U.S. president Bill Clinton an iPhone userHere's a short outline […] · Wicked Ringtones » Blog Archive » Former US president Bill Clinton an iPhone user says: December 22nd, 2007 at 6:50 am […] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere's a quick excerptWe’re getting used to the idea of celebrities using the iPhone. It’s slick and one of the most beautiful handsets on the market today. However, we were kinda surprised to learn the former US president Bill Clinton is an iPhone user … […] · Celebrities » Former U. [lien] [EN]

Just How Much Damage Did Bill Clinton Do?

I posted about Bill Clinton's attack on the media and his attempt to blame them in advance for Hillary Clinton having to go negative. I also just posted at what I think is a return volley from the media blasting Bubba as a "campaign prop" and a "Relic." But the damage Bill has done may actually be even worse than that. Joe Gandelman is very angry at Clinton and thinks Hillary may have been badly damaged with those voters she most needs in the general election: the unaffiliated ones. The fact of the matter is a lot of us Independent voters are tired of the politics of slash and burn where a candidate’s camp feels it must demonize, whip up the voters so they hate someone as the main reason to vote for them — a technique used as by political operatives in both parties under the two Bush administrations and yours. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton: Begging the Press to Revisit Hillary’s Old Scandals

Bill Clinton, in full whine mode, says Hillary has been “totally exonerated of every single charge ever leveled” at her. I question this assertion at Hot Air. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton to Paulian Troofer: "You're Crazy as Hell"….

Never get between Bill and his chubby dark-haired interns….. KEENE, NH – Several Ron Paul supporters shadowed a much larger Clinton entourage as Bill Clinton greeted supporters downtown. The former president later called them "nuts." During his third stop of the day, the former president posed for pictures and shook hands as he strolled down Main Street on this unseasonably warm Primary Eve day. Across the street, a few Paul supporters shouted his name. Eventually, Clinton stopped outside a bakery, offered some remarks, and took questions. As he was answering one on Iraq, one of the Paul backers interrupted and shouted that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job, and that the U.S. didn’t need to be in Iraq and Afghanistan. When he dropped an F-bomb, the crowd booed. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Wants You (To Vote For Hillary) [Handle This]

You have to love the two eagle-eyed guys behind Bill Clinton keeping an extra-careful watch on that handshake as the former president greeted college students this week in Hanover, N.H.. You never... [lien] [EN]

Even Bill Clinton is not Allowed to Criticize a Black

We read: "On Tuesday's The Situation Room, CNN's liberal political analyst Donna Brazile, formerly an adviser to both Bill Clinton and Al Gore, hinted that she was racially offended by some of the former President's recent attacks on Barack Obama. Invoking Clinton's labeling of Obama as a "kid," and his accusation that some of Obama's claims are a "fairy tale," Brazile expressed that, "as an African-American," she found Clinton's comments "depressing." Brazile: "For him to go after Obama using 'fairy tale,' calling him a 'kid,' as he did last week, it's an insult. And I tell you, as an African-American, I find his words and his tone to be very depressing." Source Yes: "kid" and "fairy tale" sure do sound like racist expressions. If anybody ever calls your child a "kid", shriek at him that he has just uttered the "N. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Still Making Ladies Weak in the Knees [Turning On The Girls]

newVideoPlayer("Fainting_Girl_Snapper.flv", 475, 376,"");Bill Clinton is, apparently, quite the ladykiller. Watch as Bill Clinton’s health care plans make this poor young thing all weak in the... [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Is So Very Hungry [Four Kinds Of Steak]

While common press people and local pols subsisted on mysterious buffet-line chicken pucks and leftover iceberg lettuce in the debate’s freezing media warehouse, Big Bill Clinton was feasting... [lien] [EN]