Clintons adjust to her turn in his old role ("It's Bob Brker")

International Herald Tribune ^ | July 5, 2007 | Patrick Healy

[Loyal Buckeye]

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa: As thousands of people cheered along the Fourth of July parade route here, it was the tall man with the familiar white hair who made the crowd go truly gaga. "Bob Barker! It's Bob Barker!" two women shrieked upon seeing the former president, Bill Clinton, in the distance, as he and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York marched hand-in-hand. When the women realized who it really was, they seemed just as thrilled, shouting, "Ohhhh!" and clapping madly.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Make that Bob Barker, not Bob Brker.

I was so excited reading the article, I couldn’t control my fingers.

[Keith in Iowa]

The talk of the town is the draw for the day was Bill, not Hillary.

Yeah, I live here. No, I didn’t go to the parade...I did not want to chance spending the rest of the week in the company of the US-SS. :)

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"Bob Barker! It's Bob Barker!"

Nope, it's "Bill Barfer".

[End_Clintonism_Now]

What’s the dif... They both had lots of babes “backstage”!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Just ask the Red Chinese if “The Price is Right.”

[1Old Pro]

Hillary knows she’s in trouble when she needs Bubba to help her. It actually hurts her “image” as she simply does not look “Presidential” with him around.

[albie]

Won’t be long before people will be screaming...”LOOK! IT’S KARL MARX! IT’S KARL MARX!

[socal_parrot]

“Come on down!!!”

[End_Clintonism_Now]

You got it. ROTFL!!!!

[ConservativeStatement]

What has me concerned on this topic is the voting bloc who loves this chump and thinks a vote for her is actually a vote for him.

[Finny]

Demonstrating the wisdom of our Founders in not extending the vote to women. *sigh* Gals like these are an embarassment to we females everywhere.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Bob Barker

That is still the best name I can think of for a chihuahua.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Don’t y’all get that excited when you meet a rapist ? ;-)

[Bringbackthedraft]

If there is a God, he will send the Clintons to the dust bin of history where they belong. If they end up in the Whitehouse, it means God gave up on America or visa versa. America needs a new face, not another rerun.

[jbwbubba]

Hillary was later heard saying, “I wish I could get him spayed or neutered.”

[Miss Didi]

BUBBA ON PARADE

NY POST
By IAN BISHOP

July 5, 2007 -- WATERLOO, Iowa - Bubba-licious! Ex-President Bill Clinton was the prince of the parade during Fourth of July festivities in rural Clear Lake, Iowa, yesterday - but insisted all the attention he gets won't hurt wife Hillary Rodham Clinton's front-running White House bid.

After a two-mile parade past more than 40,000 Iowans - that had him saluting, handshaking and hugging hundreds as he walked alongside the former first lady - Bill Clinton said he's no longer worried about "overshadowing" his wife.

"I didn't want to come out on this campaign in any place before voters had an opportunity to establish an independent feeling about Hillary Clinton," he said.

"If about 95 percent of the people know me, positive or negative - or 100 percent - then whether they're negative or positive feelings, it will interfere with their ability to know her, so now I think it's a really good time to come.

"It was obvious from talking to these people that they've been paying attention to our campaign here, so I like it."

While the ex-prez said he wasn't overshadowing his wife, he stole the spotlight yesterday.

Paradegoers, sometimes seven or eight deep, shrieked for his attention - and one teen girl even dashed into the parade route to plant a peck on his cheek.

He brought the parade to a standstill several times when he plunged into the crowd to pose for photos.

GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who marched in the Clear Lake parade far behind the Clintons, said, "We're about the future, she's about the past."

"We did better than them - with the ex-president - because we have the next president," the former Massachusetts governor crowed at the end of the parade.

But in a nod to civility on Independence Day, Romney and his wife, Ann, walked hand-in-hand over to the Clintons before the parade for a round of handshakes and small talk.

The Clintons, Sen. Barack Obama and Romney hopscotched across the Hawkeye State to lock up support for the crucial Jan. 14 kickoff caucuses, when the first votes will be cast in the 2008 presidential election.

While racing through Iowa with a police-escorted motorcade, Bill and Hillary hopped off the highway in tiny Nashua - a town with the same name as the city in another crucial campaign state, New Hampshire - for malts at Dairy Shakes.

"President Bush is buying my milkshakes. These are my tax cuts at work," Bill Clinton quipped as he passed out milkshakes to staffers and a handful of reporters crowding into the cozy diner.

ian.bishop@nypost.com