Posted on 12/29/2007 1:34:05 PM PST by keepitreal
ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger reports: If she makes it to the White House, Sen. Hillary Clinton said today her husband will take on the same responsibilities as traditional presidential spouses, with no access to National Security Council meetings.
"I think he would play the role that spouses have always played for presidents," said Clinton, in an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. "He will not have a formal, official role, but just as presidents rely on wives, husbands, fathers, friends of long years, he will be my close confidante and adviser as I was with him."
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I wonder how many past Presidents have relied on their husbands. Hillary makes it seem like it was a common practice! :0)
Bill Clinton has been making it pretty wink/nudge clear that he will be co-President again after his wife is elected. That’s the whole point to her campaign, that her election would be a restoration of the Clinton era. This bodes a constitutional crisis of the first order, and is the most compelling reason to defeat her, and him.
These people are on LSD.
Exactly...she is on very thin ice. But only if the press actually does its job and asks those questions.
Get serious, Mrs. Clinton’s only qualification is that she is a congenital liar!
More so. Mrs. Bush has a genuine southern accent, charm, is likely steely-eyed, and easy on the eyes. Plus: no cankles.
Such as looking the other way while the President gets serviced by young female interns. (It could happen.)
Kind of a modern day Rasputin.
Yeah, Bill would be busy with the intern program.
When the USSR shot down our U-2 in 1960, Kelly Johnson immediately realized we needed something higher and faster that no enemy could reach,! so the Skunk Works went back to the drawing board. The first flight was 22 months later. Try that today. We lost three out of 50 due to accidents. (One broke up after colliding with the drone it had just launched.) No enemy was ever able to touch it.
SecDef Robert McNamara ordered all the SR-71 manufacturing tools destroyed so he would have more tax dollars to waste on the F-111. In 1994 William Jefferson Clinton used line item veto to cancel all funding for SR-71s. They are now in museums. The pilots said that we really need that airplane today for reconnaissance over places like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Korea, China, Russia, etc. If it were not for Clinton, SR-71 would still be performing that reconnaissance today. The argument that satellites can do the job is not correct. Any school boy with a lap top can tell you when a satellite will be overhead, so the bad guys simply shut things down, and later restart them. On the other hand, the enemy never knows where or w! hen the SR-71 will suddenly appear out of nowhere.
At 80,000 feet the cameras can see 80 miles. From 20 miles off the coast, the airplane can photograph objects 60 miles inland. The requirement for a rock solid gyro stabilized camera platform was paramount. My favorite analogy was this:
Nail a four foot square sheet of plywood to the bottom of the airplane. Drill a quarter inch hole through the middle of it. Insert a quarter inch dowel that is 16 MILES long. Drag the dowel across the surface of the earth at 30 miles per MINUTE.
Program the camera to take one photo per second of a specified set of coordinates for four minutes, in order to examine the spot from all angles. Do this in such a way that all photos are crystal clear, with no blurring.
Pilots, who are not trained as photo interpreters, say they can read the photos easily. One pilot looked at an Infrared photo of a USAF base and immediately recognized the shadow (heat signature) of a spot where a B-52 had been parked one hour earlier.
Entertaining the wives of visiting delegations? Well, that's a given.
I’ve heard Hillary didn’t have security clearance to be in on NSC meetings. But did they attempt to get her clearance, and she failed ??
The presidential limousine does have a power sunroof, doesn’t it?
Heh, LOL
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Great Point! Oh, but she she did visit more countries than Barbra Streisand, which makes her more qualified then Barbra.
Here is Her Shrilleryness quoted on the campaign trail with the Gov of Ohio a couple of days ago.
Clinton, the former first lady made it clear her role in the White House was one of a player.
“I was privileged to be a part of a lot of the decisions we made,” said Clinton.
Scary eh.
And daughters, nieces and mummies.
...too bad ya didn't give him some advice on stain removal
What position could Hillary appoint her HINO to, if, God forbid, she wins?
Wouldn’t any appointment violate the Nepotism Clause?
Does the truth ever pass this creature’s putrid maw?
No.
She lies more than she breathes in and out. Bill is just going to arrange flowers and make up guest lists, while Hill was in on all the decisions.
Wonder if she wakes up in the morning remembering what the story of the day is?
Hello! Anyone even thinking about voting for Hillary Clinton — Do you really want that same old gang of scum back in the White House again??????
Laura is more qualified...
I don’t have a clue about the rest of the Email, but the USSC ruled the line item veto unconstitutional, so that part is wrong.
When he was president there was a whole lot of files of ultra-top secret that were withheld back then because the powers that be felt him questionable about national security.
If Hilary gets in I can just imagine her frustration about secret files access and all she gets is “Access Denied”.
Anyhow fortunate for the US there is and has been those that deem which and who can access the most secrets of secrets, Hilary if elected will be neutered and powerless much more so that her husband was for his eight years.
Of course! In fact, Laura Bush is MORE qualified than the Hildabeast because she (Laura) is the spouse of a WAR-TIME president.
Therefore, Laura is war president material.
Why didn’t the Rats run Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy at the first opportunity?
Really, this brings up a very practical issue I have not seen anyone address.
When the ashtrays start flying, do the Secret Service protect the President or the former President? And how do we expect them to get in the middle of THAT?
So are people going to connect the dots on this one? Bubba’s a two-fer when it looks like that might help, but he’s only doing Spouse Duties when it looks like that might help.
According to the Witch, HE’s going to be a “traditional spouse,” but she wasn’t, she was a co-president?
How does she think she’s going to get away with this whopper-—or is it that whopper?
No.
The question now is whether anyone in the MSM will call BS.
((crickets))
To prevent Bill from effectively doing a third term in office it will most likely be that he will have 24/7 surveillance upon him to legally exclude him from in any ways or means in trying to run the country through Hilary.
I am willing to bet he gets arrested for some prior thing thats been hushed up like his cocaine habit, either that or he does a Foster.
Hey....why isn’t Laura running?
“At 80,000 feet the cameras can see 80 miles. From 20 miles off the coast, the airplane can photograph objects 60 miles inland. The requirement for a rock solid gyro stabilized camera platform was paramount.”
UAV’s can now do the same job for less money.
And daughters, nieces and mummies.
The Bent One is no doubt drooling over the prospect of playing "the role that spouses have always played for presidents." In addition to the above let's see what other kinds of duties that might entail:
Chairing various White House, Senate and Congress wives committees.
Mentoring the female White House interns (Oh my!!!)
Joining the various ladies clubs in DC.
Likely because Jackie didn’t want that for herself or her children.
I met a young man yesterday that is in the Army and currently is a nurse at Walter Reed. I couldn’t believe it when he told me he wants Hillary to win because it would be ‘fun’ to have Bill back in the White House. He was serious.
Speaking of what Hill would be like on foreign policy, how come President Bush was vilified for a seven minute lag before he gave a response to 9/11 and Hill’s 2 hour lag before responding to Bhutto’s murder is never mentioned? Just asking........
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5541e159-6ad5-4cc9-b24d-38374624608c
Bill Crafts Hillary’s Bio
By Dick Morris
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, August 09, 2007
Go to www.hillaryclinton.com and check out Bill Clinton’s syrupy five minute ad for Hillary. He introduces the commercial by saying that he wants to share some things we may not know about Hillary’s background. His version of her biography is about as reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!
So, I wanted to make a few corrections:
Bill says: Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did want to work at public service.
The true facts are: When Clinton was considering not running for another term as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he didn’t. She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her chances of winning. The conclusion was that she couldn’t win because people would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking his wounds after losing for president. So she didn’t run. Bill did and won. But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as opposed to service, long ago.
Bill says: In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.
The true facts are: Hillary’s main extra-curricular activity in law school was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights violations and develop grounds for appeal.
Bill says: Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a children’s rights project for poor kids.
The true facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an internship with him.
Bill says: Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she turned down all the lucrative job offers.
The true facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam and only passed the Arkansas bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas and only got hired by the University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was already teaching there. She only joined the prestigious Rose Law Firm after Bill became Attorney General and made partner only after he was elected Governor.
Bill says: President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services Board of Directors and she became its Chairman.
The true facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill’s support for Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary became chairman in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter’s choice to be chairman.
Bill says: She served on the board of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
The true facts are: Yes she did. But her main board activity, not mentioned by Bill, was to sit on the Wal-Mart board of directors, for a substantial fee. She was silent about their labor and health care practices.
Bill says: Hillary didn’t succeed at getting health care for all Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million children with health insurance.
The true facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was included in the budget deal between Bill Clinton and Republican Majority Leader Senator Trent Lott. I helped to negotiate the deal. The money came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals’ tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either source of funds.
Bill says: Hillary was the face of America all over the world.
The true facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of town so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and symbolic, and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them.
Bill says: Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for children’s and women’s issues.
The true facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like changing the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only four substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national park in Puerto Rico. A second provided respite care for family members helping their relatives through Alzheimer’s or other conditions. And two were routine bills to aid 9-11 victims and responders which were sponsored by the entire NY delegation.
Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary Clinton. She has done everything possible to weaken the President and our country when it comes to the war on terror:
1. She wants to close GITMO & move the combatants to the USA where they would have access to our legal system.
2. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qaeda phone calls to/from the USA.
3. She wants to grants constitutional rights to enemy combatants captured on the battlefield.
4. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers between suspected Al Qaeda cells & supporters in the USA.
5. She wants to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics used by the military & CIA where coercion might be used when questioning known terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.
I can’t think of a single bill Hillary has introduced or a single comment she has made that would tend to strengthen our country in the War on Terror. But, I can think of a lot of comments she has made that weakens our country and makes it a more dangerous situation for all of us........She goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too many issues where common sense is abandoned. She is a disaster for all Americans.
Hillary and Bill, they lie more often than they breathe.
roflmao!
most of my tv-moron lib friends think
that it’s “hillary’s white house experience
that counts”!
Billy Jeff baking cookies, how sweet.
Hill's brother Hughie (seen here golfing with Bill) will also be moving back into the White House.
One WH server later said when Hughie visited, his sole occupation was ordering food from the WH kitchen.
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