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Bill Clinton Ponders a Role as First Gentleman
The New York Times ^ | May 10, 2007 | PATRICK HEALY

Posted on 05/10/2007 6:01:47 AM PDT by presidio9

Bill Clinton plans to be a first gentleman for the 21st century: a post-modern, post-ego presidential spouse who does not earn an income of his own, but rather pays the bills from family savings and does what he can to help the missus down in the Oval Office.

“I’ve tried to get in a position where, you know, I — I won’t — I’ll be able to do what she did when I was president — that is, I don’t want to spend any time making a living,” Mr. Clinton said in an interview on CNN late Tuesday, when asked about his activities if Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency in 2008.

“I hope I will have saved enough by then, if she is elected, that we can just, you know, pay our bills and — I’d like to keep our two homes, our home in Washington, our home in Chappaqua,” Mr. Clinton added. “And otherwise, I’d like to devote whatever time she wants to whatever she wants me to do, and I should be able to have probably two to three days a week to do in the foundation. I certainly hope so.”

Mrs. Clinton has been fairly explicit that she will keep Mr. Clinton busy if she becomes president, saying he could become “ambassador to the world” — with the William J. Clinton Foundation and missions to improve ties with other nations and tackle foreign policy hot spots.

A non-earning Mr. Clinton would be a big change for the couple, but

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1 posted on 05/10/2007 6:01:50 AM PDT by presidio9
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He’s a lot of things, but he will never be a gentleman.


2 posted on 05/10/2007 6:03:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Would you vote for President a guy who married his cousin? Me, neither. Accept no RINOs. Fred in '08)
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I’ll be able to do what she did when I was president...

What? Be cheated upon?


3 posted on 05/10/2007 6:04:04 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right but never in doubt)
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To: presidio9

So he wants to keep the Nookie Factory in Chappaqua for himself eh? He’ll have to. There’s no way he’ll be able to hide his trollops from the press.


4 posted on 05/10/2007 6:05:00 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He ain’t nothing but a Hound Dog.


5 posted on 05/10/2007 6:05:44 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Bill Clinton and gentleman in same sentence? Ha! That’s a real knee slapper!


6 posted on 05/10/2007 6:05:54 AM PDT by AngieGOP (I never met a woman who became a stripper because she played with Barbie dolls as a kid.)
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noooooo! At least monica took to heart, or rather mouth, the BJ part of his name.


7 posted on 05/10/2007 6:05:58 AM PDT by ca centered
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BJ, the ‘Aw, shucks’ sh*tkicker. Right.


8 posted on 05/10/2007 6:06:07 AM PDT by doberville
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Hmmmmm, sounds like his ‘compartmentalization’ is talking here, that private brain and public brain keep getting in each other’s way.


9 posted on 05/10/2007 6:06:25 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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Non-Earning??? He has Raked in TENS of MILLIONS!!!!


10 posted on 05/10/2007 6:08:07 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her Phoniness is Genuine!!!)
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*SPIT*


11 posted on 05/10/2007 6:08:36 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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“I hope I will have saved enough by then”
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If he hasn’t saved enough, maybe we could chip in.


12 posted on 05/10/2007 6:09:06 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Life time member of the VRWC.)
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First Gentleman??!!! What a HOOT!!


13 posted on 05/10/2007 6:10:01 AM PDT by MTMS
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Let him “ponder” til the cows come home. It isn’t going to happen. Must be a new definition of “Gentleman” on the street...that, also isn’t going to happen.


14 posted on 05/10/2007 6:10:06 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: presidio9
I despise Bill Clinton and everything he stands for.
15 posted on 05/10/2007 6:12:26 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I have a big carbon footprint and I'm not afraid to use it.)
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To: presidio9

First gentleman?????????????????? I don’t think so!


16 posted on 05/10/2007 6:12:55 AM PDT by Sunshine Sister
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First Rapist, more like.


17 posted on 05/10/2007 6:14:23 AM PDT by Maceman (Scratch a progressive, find a misanthrope.)
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To: presidio9

Bill Clinton in the White House would violate the spirit of the 22nd amendment. But hey, it’s just the Constitution so he would feel comfortable doing it.


18 posted on 05/10/2007 6:16:26 AM PDT by pleikumud
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Gentleman?!!!

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19 posted on 05/10/2007 6:17:08 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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Pictures Bill walking around Whitehouse with a can of stain remover in belt holster.


20 posted on 05/10/2007 6:20:16 AM PDT by vietvet67
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