Posted on 09/17/2005 5:44:05 PM PDT by blam
No longer centre stage, but Clinton leaves them calling for more
By Philip Sherwell in New York
(Filed: 18/09/2005)
If there was any doubt that Bill Clinton still elicits the adoration of women, Barbra Streisand was on hand last week to squash it.
As the former president laid out his agenda for world change from a podium flanked by Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice and King Abdullah of Jordan, the singer-actress emitted a series of gentle but disconcerting squeals of approval, interspersed with admiring sighs.
Bill Clinton and Tony Bennett
Hers was typical of the audience reaction at launch of the modestly named Clinton Global Initiative in New York.
Streisand and her husband, the actor James Brolin, had sat down next to The Sunday Telegraph at the glitzy gathering of international leaders, old White House allies, business chiefs, showbiz celebrities and Third World campaigners, aimed at solving the world's most pressing problems.
In fact, they made more concrete progress than the United Nations summit held just across town. Mr Clinton required all participants to contribute time or money to one of four "critical challenges" - poverty, religious conflict, climate change and good governance. Sir Tom Hunter, a Scottish entrepreneur turned philanthropist, made one of the biggest donations: $100 million (£55 million).
Streisand, a prominent Hollywood liberal, was thrilled. "This is such a great idea," she said. "I think Bill's great and he's doing such an important thing here." Mr Clinton has taken post-presidential activism to new levels. In addition to the Global Initiative, he has raised money for the victims of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina and overseen other aid projects funded by his foundation. So impressed was Streisand that she suggested America change the Constitution to allow him to run again for the White House.
Mr Clinton returned the compliment later, at a reception in the Nobu restaurant. "Barbara is a great woman and good friend," he said. "She was also fantastic to my mother. She met her at my inauguration in 1993 and when she heard she was ill, she called her and invited her to her show in Las Vegas."
Former Clinton cabinet ministers and staffers rubbed shoulders with 40 heads of government, several prominent Republicans and the Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, who sang the former president's praises as he discussed the role of religion in conflicts.
But the greatest beneficiary of the praise and of the high profile for the Clinton brand may prove to be his wife, who as the junior senator for New York state joined a discussion of climate change.
If Streisand's dream of a Clinton return to the White House comes true, it will be Hillary who leads the way - with her husband as the first First Gentleman.
I always suspected Babs was a male impersonator
Bill clinton, "awww haw, see, by this illustration money does grow on trees. "
This is a state by state map not a county by county map.
Still it shows a big majority of the states voting for the Republican candidate. A constitutional amendment repealing the 22nd amendment would have to be ratified by 3/4'ths of the states. That is 38 out of 50 states.
Kerry carried only 19 (half the number necessary to ratify a constitutional amendment) out of 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Bush carried 31 out of 50 states. The District of Columbia has no voting representation in Congress and they have no vote on ratifying constitutional amendments. Assuming a catastrophe and such a constitutional amendment were to get a 2/3'rds vote in both the House and Senate and every single state that voted for Kerry were to vote to ratify, 2/3'rds of the states that voted for Bush would have to vote for ratification too. That isn't going to happen.
seriously, real women don't use lip liner. It ended with the big hair 1980's.
So wheres the news? A guy from Arkansas makes a pig squeal and this is news?
I will NEVER forget when Babs spent the night at the White House, Hillary was out of town visiting her dying father, and the next morning Clinton had HUGE, LONG, SCRATCHES on his face!! He first said he did it while shaving, then he said the cat did it, them Chelsea and he were wrestling....when it was babsie's long, manicured nails during some kind of sex. YUK.
That's what Russians are asking for Putin.
Maybe Clinton can run as Putin's VP and Babs can move there and live in progressive heaven.
Unless it's the Monkees. Hello?....
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