Posted on 09/21/2011 7:17:01 AM PDT by MontaniSemperLiberi
Whether Bill Clinton is being mischievous or helpful is never entirely clear. But the former president often manages to show the current president just how the game should be played.
When Barack Obama was languishing by the phone in July, yearning to hear from John Boehner on the elusive Grand Bargain, the Big Dog advised blowing off the obstructionists in Congress and invoking the 14th Amendment to raise the debt ceiling.
Clinton will often forcefully and feelingly frame the argument for Obama policies that would help the working class in a way that Obama himself, once hailed as a master communicator, cant seem to muster.
On Sunday talk shows, Bill adroitly defended Barry against Dick Cheneys sly jab that Hillary would make a stronger Democratic nominee in 2012 and against the Cajun ragin of James Carville.
And, on Tuesday in New York, as the airwaves thrummed with talk about whether President Obama provoked a women problem by letting the West Wing become too much of a frat house, Clinton showed how easy it is to get a roomful of women purring.
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The audience swooned.
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You know that’s Catherine Zeta Jones, right? She took Michael Douglass away from MoDo. I’ve been told it’s a Freeper rule that her picture must be posted whenever MoDo is mentioned. I was slow on the uptake.
Uh oh - Dowd referred to the President of the United States as "Barry".
Quick - somebody report her to #AttackWatch...
Only reason for the MoDo threads, IMHO.
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