Both You And JFK...
Posted on 09/02/2006 11:07:48 AM PDT by wagglebee
Former President Bill Clinton said during a visit with his wife to the State Fair on Friday that he isn't pressing her to run for president.
"I don't have a view on this," he said to reporters after he and his wife spoke to more than 500 people at a luncheon she hosted at the fair.
"I'm in the support business. Whatever she does will make me happy," the former president said. "If she decided to spend her six years in the Senate and then go help me in my work around the world and we could travel together that would make me happy too."
Sen. Clinton, standing next to her husband, seemed to have had enough of the speculation about her possible presidential ambitions.
"Let's talk about the fair. Let's talk about New York state issues," the former first lady said.
Clinton made her annual pilgrimage to the fair at the end of a three-day swing through New York farm country.
The trip has served to boost Clinton's visibility in the state's Finger Lakes wine region and other rural parts of central New York, a predominantly Republican region where she would need to do well if she runs for president in 2008.
This week's exposure can only help, the former president said as he joined his wife at a farm near Cazenovia on Thursday evening and noted her popularity in New York, where polls show her well ahead in her bid for re-election this year, and in Arkansas, where he was governor.
"Here and there people know her as a three-dimensional person and not a two-dimensional cartoon that's been painted for many years by people for their own purposes," Clinton said.
"If they see you as a three-dimensional person, then you've always got a shot," he added.
But both Clintons maintained on the eve of her fair visit that she remains focused on this year's re-election bid and not a possible run for the White House.
Nonetheless, the senator did say on Thursday that she hopes the country is ready for a woman president.
For the Clintons, the visit to the fair has become an annual tradition.
The former president recalled Friday that when his wife was first elected six years ago, he asked her what his duties would be as a Senate spouse.
"She said there is only one job you have to do, to go to the State Fair with me so they'll see I married a redneck," he told the luncheon audience.
While the senator has a perfect attendance record during her six-year tenure, her husband has missed the event in Syracuse several times, including two years ago when chest pains that led to heart bypass surgery scrapped his visit. That year, she stopped by briefly and then flew back home to Westchester County to be with him.
"I'm so pleased he is so healthy and he's back at the fair," she said on Friday.
Clinton faces a Sept. 12 primary against anti-Iraq war activist Jonathan Tasini, who was also planning a visit to the fair on Friday.
While Tasini and Clinton did not encounter each other at the fair, she was shadowed by a Tasini supporter dressed in a chicken suit and carrying a sign that read: "Hillary, don't be a chicken! Debate Tasini."
On Thursday, the Tasini campaign unveiled a radio ad in which anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan called on Clinton to debate Tasini. Clinton has, thus far, refused to do that.
"Sen. Clinton has shown complete disregard towards the voters of New York by dodging the debate," Tasini said Friday before heading to the fair.
Former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer and Reagan-era Pentagon official Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland are vying for the Republican Senate nomination.
Polls show Clinton far ahead in the Senate race.
BJ is just their to look at the girls.
tee hee, did he say he was in the supporter business!
Clinton Drinking Game. A shot each time he says "I", "me" or "my." Tally this game: five shots. Hillary dragged him away before he could really get going.
Both You And JFK...
I see he's still a colossal liar.
The support bra business?
I'm appalled that you don't hang on his every word and take if for the unfettered truth.
Oh, and Pookie.....
LMAO!!!
Check this out..LOL
http://www.shieldsnet.org/images/strange/chronicles_of_hillary.jpg
As long as she stays far away from Chappequa.
Huh?
Oh someone give me a shovel! It's past knee deep!
Yeah, that's gonna happen.
LOL....we both had the same thought!
He's a sad sack now, can you imagine if he had to spend real time with that b+tch.
Unfortunately, the whole world already knows that, BJ.
It allll depends on what the meaning of "support" is 
Would Bill's Canadian girl friend like that?
The queen granted him "a visit"? What kind of marriage is this?
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