How Bill Clinton Got His Sweet, Sweet Revenge on John Edwards

Gawker ^ | September 27, 2010 | Staff

[lbryce]

Bill Clinton is pretty content nowadays. He's rich, his initiative is soaring, the White House needs him. This is happiness. But never underestimate his love for acting on ancient grudges, as he did with sex pariah John Edwards in 2008.

In a lengthy profile of Clinton and how his life is perfect now, Politico slips in this nugget about how Clinton, via his longtime personal aide Doug Band, reacted to John Edwards' sad plea for support following the outing of his affair with Rielle Hunter in 2008:

In 2008, John Edwards called, seeking a statement of support from Clinton when his affair with Rielle Hunter exploded publicly. A loyalist with a long memory, Band sent back word, asking whether Edwards recalled his own denunciation of Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky controversy.

John Edwards is so dumb that he probably didn't even remember that. But anyway.

Just remember, famous people from the '90s: Bill Clinton may be happy and rich, but he also has a kill list with names written in dragon blood hanging in his underground Chappaqua bunker, where all day he plots revenge and watches TV and stuff.

[lbryce]

As overwhelmingly difficult, painful actually, as it is to imagine someone even sleazier, more unctuous than the "Cigar Man"himself, Bill Clinton, there is just such a human manifestation of raw sewage in the guise of the guy in the picture next to Clinton.

Oh, by the way, I want to state for the record that while President Reagan never removed his jacket when in the Oval Office out of utter deference, reverence, respect for the Office of the Presidency, all the Presidents that preceded him, let's just say President Clinton never shared the same sense awe, decorum during his years in office.

[jakerobins]

I’ll bet Obama’s name is written about 10 times on the top of the list...2012 will interesting.....Clinton might cut barry off at the knee’s....

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Two words: “Juanita Broaddrick”. That’s all you need to know about Bill and Hillary Clinton.

[UCANSEE2]

If Al Gore is a sex-crazed poodle,

John Edwards is a sex-crazed chihuahua.

[colorado tanker]

Ah knew ah'd get to pay 'im back some day.

[mainsail that]

“I think this President has shown a remarkable disrespect for his office, for the moral dimensions of leadership, for his friends, for his wife, for his precious daughter. It is breathtaking to me the level to which that disrespect has risen.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2526427/John-Edwards-admits-to-lying-about-affair.html

Payback’s a b@#$&

[Paladin2]

"Clinton might cut barry off at the knee’s...."

Higher, as a certain Chicago pol suggested.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Clinton actually is very smart. Loaded with character flaws, but smart. Obama is an empty suit by comparison.

[2ndDivisionVet]

His name for it is “initiative?” Most men give it a male name or similar.

[Martel1971]

It is amazing how people who have been so close to the Clintons can’t remember their two major character flaws, vindictive and petty. I would rather have a rattlesnake as a political bedfellow.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

They’re both sociopaths.

Seems like sociopaths are the only people the Democrats run these days.

[colorado tanker]

Clinton actually is very smart

He is the best politician I've seen in terms of the process of getting elected, both on a strategic and tactical level, even better than Nixon. Both are/were deeply flawed characters.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Oh, by the way, I want to state for the record that while President Reagan never removed his jacket when in the Oval Office out of utter deference,

Myth.

[BunnySlippers]

Imagine being tied to Rielle Hunter for life. He will always have to interact with her.

[wagglebee]

He is the best politician I've seen in terms of the process of getting elected, both on a strategic and tactical level, even better than Nixon. Both are/were deeply flawed characters.

Yep, for all of his faults, he is a master politician.

[wagglebee]

I’ll bet Obama’s name is written about 10 times on the top of the list...2012 will interesting.....Clinton might cut barry off at the knee’s....

It's going to be interesting to watch.

[luvbach1]

Clinton may have been the first to remove his pants in the Oval Office.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Yep, for all of his faults, he is a master politician.

And according to Monica Lewinsky, a master debater.

[Snake65]

The only part of the Obama presidency I'm enjoying is the contemplation of just when and where the Clintons are going to stick the knife in and give it a big ol' twist.

[rockvillem]

Clinton actually is very smart. Loaded with character flaws, but smart. Obama is an empty suit by comparison.

Absolutely right. Clinton was a Rhodes Scholar, a multi-term "boy" governor of a state and a very, very saavy politician in terms of reading the tea leaves/polling data. Deeply flawed and utterly untrustworthy, but there's no comparison between Clinton and Obama when it comes to brains, experience and political sense as they each entered the Oval Office. Obama is at best an affirmative-action empty suit, and possibly something a whole lot more sinister foisted upon us by people who don't have this country's true best interests at heart.