Posted on 09/29/2007 1:52:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Interview With Bill Clinton By Al Hunt
(Note: the following is a rush transcript of an interview with Bill Clinton that will air this weekend on Political Capital with Al Hunt on Bloomberg Television.)
MR. HUNT: We know where you stand on the Democratic race for president, but handicap the Republican race now that you see --
PRES. CLINTON: I can't tell. I think that they wanted to vote for Thompson because they saw in him someone whose culture was conservative and who was, kind of, had a great manner and that macho stuff you know they love, and was vague enough so that you could read whatever you wanted to in him and maybe he could sop up some of the moderate vote; that's what they had with President Reagan in 1980, that's what they had with President Bush in 2000 -- that brilliant, compassionate conservative slogan.
But then he minimized the threat of Osama bin Laden and said he didn't know where he stood on the Schiavo case and I think on a case like that, being for it or against it, anything is better than not knowing.
So, you've got this curious situation where Romney is leading in a pretty strong position apparently in Iowa and New Hampshire. He's the better cultural fit for Iowa than Mayor Giuliani, and he's closer to New Hampshire being the former governor of Massachusetts than Mayor Giuliani. But he is running fourth or third in all the national polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
"Bill Clinton has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore.''--David Brinkley
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans . . . ." --William J. Clinton, USA Today, March 11, 1993.
"The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of . . . older men who prey on underage women. . . . There are consequences to decisions and . . . one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable." --Bill Clinton, June 13, 1996, in a speech endorsing a national effort against teen pregnancy - Words he dare not speak Clinton's political power suffers from what he cannot say, [USNews: 9/21/98]
"I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation." --President Bill Clinton, October 17, 1997. "National Character Counts Week."
"I think it's plain that the president should resign and spare the country the agony of this impeachment and removal proceeding," Clinton said. "I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if he'd go on and resign." Clinton, a law professor at the University of Arkansas, said there was "no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense." Representative Is "Out of Step," Clinton Charges, ARKANSAS GAZETTE, 1974
"To confine impeachable conduct to indictable offenses may well be to set a standard so restrictive as not to reach conduct that might adversely affect the system of government. Some of the most grevious offenses against our constitutional form of government may not entail violations of the criminal law.....Io limit impeachable conduct to criminal offenses would be incompatible with the evidence...and would frustrate the purpose that the framers intended.... Impeachment was evolved.....to cope with both the inadequacy of the criminal standards and the impotence of the courts to deal with the conduct of great public figures. It would be anomalous if the framers, having barred criminal sanctions from the impeachment remedy....intended to restrict the grounds for impeachment to conduct that was criminal" Hillary Rodham Staff Attorney House Judiciary Committee 1974
Source:
http://www.zpub.com/un/billc-4.html
The worship of Clinton as some kind of genius, when his only genius is for self-preservation, is really mind-boggling.
Bill Clinton gives a whole new meaning to the word “vapid”. And, as sad as I am to say it, from here DownUnder it looks like a Rudy/HillBilly race: who will win? Not America, that’s for sure. Who will lose? Well, I guess that depends on who you ask. In my view, America will lose less under Rudy than under BillAry, and as a bonus we will be treated to fewer vapid observations by the First Laddie.
“[Bill Clinton] as the First Laddie”
Heh, heh!
Anyway, I’m afraid we’ll be hearing from His Horniness for a long, long time (sigh).
Thanks for those great quotes!
Those who say he is intelligent and point to his uncompleted Rhodes scholarship as proof fail to see the stumbling and bumbling his speeches and comments amount to.
The same goes, of course, for his boring, screeching wifey-thingy.
Both Clintons have no business running around loose.
It's all about Bill, country be damned.
"...the only senator of either party asked by the Pentagon to be on their commission to reorganize the military for the 21st century..."
If true, which 4-star bonehead thought this would be a good idea.
Yea! I understand as a senior citizen I have this macho dream of seducing a young intern, and a BJ and taking a cigar and shoving...Oh sorry.
Will this bastard just shut up?
Al Hunt has made a career out of sucking up to Democrats.
How dare you suggest that one of our ex-presidents 'shut up'?
I'll have you know that he is a member of a very exclusive club: 'Ex-Presidents' Who Hate America And Won't Shut Up Until They're Dead.' (EPWHAAWSUUTD) At present only Carter and Clinton are members.
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