Posted on 08/15/2006 12:58:23 PM PDT by seanmerc
I'm 60 and I hate it: Bill Clinton
Aug 15 2:59 PM US/Eastern
Bill Clinton hates it, but it is true: He will be 60 on Saturday, and he is often the oldest man in the room.
The former baby-boomer-in-chief and 42nd US president admitted at a world AIDS conference here -- at which delegates serenaded him with "Happy Birthday" -- that his approaching milestone filled him with trepidation.
"In just a few days, I will be 60 years old. I hate it, but it's true," the snowy-haired veteran of two tumultuous White House terms said.
"For most of my working life, I was the youngest person doing what I was doing. Then one day I woke up and I was the oldest person in every room," said Clinton, who was a youthful 44 when he was first elected president, in 1992.
"Now that I have more days behind me than ahead of me, I try to wake up with a discipline of gratitude every day," said Clinton, who left office in 2001 and has since devoted himself to his charitable foundation.
The man from Hope, Arkansas then reprised the tale of his own American dream, having been born into poverty and never knowing his father, who died before he was born, but then having a remarkable odyssey to the White House.
"I realize that I came from, by American standards, very humble circumstances when I was born in my home state at the end of World War II," said Clinton, an inveterate political campaigner.
"Our per-capita income was barely half the national average. And I had a totally improbable life.
"But I know I was not born in a log cabin that I built myself," Clinton said, turning his own life story into a parable for those worse off -- including the many developing-world AIDS victims stifled by poverty.
"I had teachers, a coherent community, a decent health care system. I knew that there would be some connection between the efforts I made in life and the results that I achieved," he said.
Clinton was the youngest US president to leave office, although he was not the youngest to enter the White House. That distinction belongs to his hero, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.
Not one mention of the Hildebeast. Interesting!
It's interesting how reporters can't even add or subtract.
Poor baby, maybe he can get a chubby intern to blow out his candle. Letterman said he was at a car show asking about getting a Hummer.
What a creep...well, this is one thing he can't do one thing about legally or illegally. HA HA HA
Nope, can't come up with one. Oh well, he should look at the bright side, he Looks 80and ill, which means he probably won't have to put up with Hillary much longer.
I could swear I've been putting up with him for 80 years, at least that's what it feels like.
I hate it that he is 60 and not wearing an orange jumpsuit labelled "Fort Leavenworth". And his little dog, Hillary, too.
Or Belinda either.
In just a few days, I will be 60 years old. I hate it,
how do you think helen thomas feels?
She passed that milestone a LONG time ago. She may not remember how it feels! :-)
He looks closer to 80.
There's a way to avoid turning 60, Bill. And you get a parade in your honor in Washington and many people speaking at the National Cathedral about what a good man you were. Do it, Bill, do it.
Every year it's getting harder to find a willing 18-year old chippy.
And after his previous rape attempts, his knows he may get negative press if he tries one again.
The perpetual adolescent.
Maybe he's just referring to having a BodyMassIndex of 60.
For me the BEST description I have read of Bill Clinton was from Christopher Hitchens:
"He is an appetite in a suit."
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