Billy Graham: Hillary's Solace (Bill should "become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts")

Time/CNN ^ | 8-8-07 | Mancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

[Bladerunnuh]

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton were sitting with him on stage in Flushing Meadows when Graham greeted them as his "wonderful friends of many years." "I told him," Graham said of President Clinton, "when he left the presidency, he should become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts." Graham paused, and added with a smile, "And he could [let] his wife run the country."

That remark caused such a furor in some quarters that Graham's evangelist son Franklin had to explain that it was meant as a joke.

But Graham had praised and defended both Clintons before. And in a new interview, Hillary

[Bladerunnuh]

"I told him," Graham said of President Clinton, "when he left the presidency, he should become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[yldstrk]

Except Bill worships something other than God and that is power.

[Bladerunnuh]

Really. Who are they praying to? Molech??!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yeah, Bill, start with Jimmy Swaggart and work backwards.

[JimRed]

God’s gifts are often abused.

[ladtx]

Shades of “Elmer Gantry”.

[netmilsmom]

Rev. Graham must have had the Devil in him at that moment. It happens to the best of us.

[Bladerunnuh]

Maybe Billy meant- “tele-evangelist”

[reagan_fanatic]

I love and respect Billy Graham immensely, but for the life of me I cannot understand his chumminess with two examples of the worst that humanity has to offer.

[linn37]

I’m not surprised that a preacher would say nice things.

[ladtx]

[Bladerunnuh]

Hillary is going to have to dye her hair--

[NeoCaveman]

We all know how Bill “ministers” to young women....

[Oztrich Boy]

And how is this a handicap to being an evangelist?

[vietvet67]

Well Bill is qualified for laying on of hands..

[Red_Devil 232]

Is that picture from a Sat. Night Live skit?

[Mrs_Stokke]

He’s a healer as well. He’ll tell you to put some ice on that.

[vietvet67]

lol

[pandoraou812]

lmaoooooooo Can you imagine that?

[Proverbs 3-5]

I love and respect Billy Graham immensely, but for the life of me I cannot understand his chumminess with two examples of the worst that humanity has to offer

I have to assume it's because Billy Graham loves people. Didn't Will Rogers say "I never met a man I didn't like"?

The article also said this:

...The book makes clear that Clinton is not the first candidate to have a relationship with Graham amid the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. Dwight Eisenhower asked Graham to assist with speeches in the 1952 race (Graham declined). Lyndon Johnson invited him to spend the weekend at the White House before the 1964 election because aides were hearing warnings that he might come out for Goldwater. Nixon recruited him to carry a secret message to Johnson during the 1968 campaign; Gerald Ford sought his advice in 1976 when he faced a born-again Southern Baptist challenger in Jimmy Carter. On the weekend before the 2000 election, amidst roiling charges about a buried drunk driving citation, Graham appeared at George W. Bush's side after a private breakfast together — in the soon to be contested state of Florida — and said, "I believe in the integrity of this man. I've known him as a boy. I've known him as a young man. And we're very proud of him."

[Bladerunnuh]

If Rev. Bill used my bathroom-- I'd have to get a new bathroom...

[weegee]

On the weekend before the 2000 election, amidst roiling charges about a buried drunk driving citation,

It was an October suprise and it wasn't a "buried" citation, not like the hidden Clinton documents. That October surprise certainly cost GWBush some votes. If that amounted to as little as 0.51% of the voters then it cost him the popular vote that Al Gore Junior loves to brag about.

[Diamond]

It might as well be, if it's not.

What IS that, a hairdo, or an animal nest?

Cordially,

[mimaw]

Of course he would have to love the sinner but hate the sin. I think however it is very dangerous to join at the hip with such powerful people that can do so much harm to the moral climate of this country. Maybe being in the limelight colors one’s vision and causes one not to want to fall out of favor with the powerful.

[Fairview]

I think that sometimes very saintly people are so good that they can be deceived by the extremely polished and wicked among us. When you are good, you do not think ill of anyone. Reverend Graham has been deceived by these professional liars as many another good person has been. It doesn’t mean that the Devil was in him, just that he is old, gentle, and perhaps easier to fool now.

[DJ MacWoW]

Clinton does have “gifts”. But he chose to use them for himself.

[Cicero]

Well, there’s a certain truth in it.

Bill clinton was gifted with extraordinary abilities as a speaker, communicator, and persuader. All he lacks, apparently, to be a gifted evangelist is the Spirit.

Flannery O’Connor would have said that he would be absolutely perfect preaching from the pulpit of the Church of Christ Without Christ.

[Rightly Biased]

Jesus didn’t hang out with just the religious. He was a witness to the sinners as well.

[Right Brother]

"Dear Lord, please help Hillary find those tweezers for her eyebrows. Amen".

[DaveLoneRanger]

Please, please, please, don’t make me throw up. Bill an evangelist? I want to scream.

[lady lawyer]

“All he lacks, apparently, to be a gifted evangelist is the Spirit.”

Does being an evangelist require character? If so, then he also lacks that.

[netmilsmom]

I think you may be right.
My sister is a habitual liar. When she hears something she assumes it is a lie.
I don’t lie. I assume that the things I hear are the truth. Those of us who try to live a good life have a hard time imagining that someone is not good at heart.

[Bladerunnuh]

You know, Billy didn't specify which "god" Bill would be evangelizing for. Bill could get people "right with Osiris", for example....

[Revolting cat!]

The truth about these hucksters is difficult to face until they’re indicted!

[street_lawyer]

What gifts are we talking about? The one Bill gave to Monica? Being a BS artist is not the kind of gifts the Bible had in mind when it says some have the gift of evangelism. Ephesians 4:11

[Just mythoughts]

I love and respect Billy Graham immensely, but for the life of me I cannot understand his chumminess with two examples of the worst that humanity has to offer.

Well it is all well and good I suppose to love and respect, but this preacher does NOT know his Bible. There is nothing about OLD Bill Clinton that makes him a representative of giving Bible instructions. And further the anointing of Hillry Clinton as the first woman after already serving 8 years as co-president without ever taking responsibility for one act she made happen, demonstrates this preacher, well I let whom ever fill in the blank, but the preacher did not get the instruction from the Bible or from the Heavenly Father.

[CaptainK]

That was a good one.

[Just mythoughts]

Hillry Clinton is counting upon the Rev to get her elected and there is a movement afoot, by his followers, apparently unbeknownst to the majority to dress her up is a ‘godly’ dress. Old Hillry spewed some of her ‘ungodliness’ when she accused the Republicans before they lost control of the House, that they if they could would make Jesus illegal.

His followers LOVED old bjclinton and they have been given marching orders to elect his in-name-only wife.

[reagan_fanatic]

Jesus didn’t hang out with just the religious. He was a witness to the sinners as well.

Exactly my dilemma. I understand the only way to truly represent Christianity is to witness to the sinner - I just find it hard to believe that either Bill or Hillary will ever change who they really are at their core and become actual Christians.

Stranger things have happened, I guess.

[quark]

Billy: "Dear Lord..."

Hellery: "I'll just pretend I believe in God..."

Bubba: "I wrote down Monica's phone number somewh...oh, there it is."

[unspun]

The truth about these hucksters is difficult to face until they’re indicted!

Is that a quote from Caiaphas? "These" hucksters?

[TigersEye]

Yeah, actually I can imagine that. My first thought when Slick Willy popped onto the scene was now there’s the ultimate used car salesman.

[small voice in the wilderness]

I question Billy Graham’s spirit of discernment. If he cannot discern evil, liars, greed, lust, cheats, and darkness in these two creatures belched forth from the bowels of hell, then tell me how he is led by God. The hair on the back of his neck should stand up when he’s next to them. Something is wrong here. Either Graham has been fooled by the clintons, or we have been fooled by Graham. I stand by my opinion.

[pandoraou812]

Very true...I never thought about it but you are right...

[DJ MacWoW]

He is a charismatic speaker. He can also be charming. He chose to use that to serve “self” and not God. The proof is that he did NOTHING for our country but millions still worship the Clintons. Everyone has gifts and abilities. God lets us chose who we use them for and who we serve, Him or self. Clinton chose self.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Now that I think about it, bill may have been calling on his “god” the day he said, “It depends on what the meaning of Isis”.

[Pining_4_TX]

Yeah, Bill could help unwed mothers get their start.

[Sue Perkick]

Oh nooo. That’s Paul & Jan Crouch of TBN & “Praise the Lord”. But don’t feel bad. I once thought Bob Tilton was a comedian doing a parody of TV evangelists the first time I saw him. I yelled for everybody to run to the TV because “this guy’s good!” LOL.

[CaptRon]

Take away the hair style and the fancy suits and Bill is just the village BS artist glad-handing people for drinks at the local tavern.

[redstateconfidential]

Amen Brother,I have thought this for a long time.Isn’t there a comment by Graham from the Lewinski debacle about Bill Clinton having “manly urges”(?).