Hillary says Bill could be 'first mate'

The Times of India ^ | July 4, 2003 | RASHMEE Z AHMED

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LONDON: Any man lucky enough to get married to America's future first female president could be designated "first mate" Hillary Clinton has said, in what is being seen as a likely and memorable job description for Bill Clinton, come 2008.

But the aspirational words, casually tossed off here and set to reverberate around the world, may be only the second of Hillary's most newsworthy achievements as she plugs her newly-published, bestselling memoirs in the UK .

She has already outsigned former rival Monica Lewinsky in the space of just a few hours in London , by autographing more books for more adoring fans to buy and keep.

Four years ago, Lewinsky set something of a London book-signing record with 'Monica's Story', her juicy revelations on the Oval Office trysts. Signing an average of eight books per minute at Harrods, the venerable, posh London store, Bill Clinton's former playmate was forced to retire in tears.

But the former White House intern has been put in the shade by the admirably-composed, networked and plugged-in former first lady, who has been vowing the UK and promising to sign 700 books in 90 minutes.

Hillary's memoirs, Living History , have already set a record as the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever, with Britain accounting for its second-biggest sales after the US .  

Her UK triumphs come even as she made an exaggerated plea for Bill and herself to "reclaim the zone of privacy".

On Thursday, fans in central London queued for up to five hours outside a leading bookstore, simply for the pleasure of seeing "a future US president".

Hillary's British successes come as the Clinton team works its way all this week into ecstatic column inches across the British press. Just days ago, the former president, partnered British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela at a landmark London dinner marking the centenary of the Rhodes scholarships. As his wife recounts in her memoirs, Bill, a former Rhodes Scholar himself, left Oxford without a degree, only to return to the US looking like a Viking.

On Friday, Hillary took to the British airwaves to relive her "pain" and sorrow at Bill's semi-romance with Lewinsky, recalling how she underwent a period of not speaking to him.

All that ended, however, she recounted, when she helped Bill write an important speech, as always.

[tet68]

700 books in 90 minutes.

One every 8 seconds nonstop?

Doubt it.

[COUNTrecount]

"First Mate" works for me as long as it's on the S.S. Titanic.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Slick and Bob Denver can compare notes on getting stoned.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Bill will pay a lot more attention to Mary Ann and Ginger than Gilligan ever did.

How will the professor cope? He had a not-so-secret crush on Mary Ann. Bubba will be hitting up the Howells for donations, but I think it's a pretty safe assumption that the Howells are Republicans.

[troublesome creek]

Hillary will be the one chasing Ginger and Mary Ann. "Billigan" will still just be strokin' his coconuts.

[OREALLY]

Bill could use a bra !

[ALOHA RONNIE]

T'was just HILL-ARIOUS with our MONICA vs. HILLARY in Pasadena last Sunday =


'FREEPER VIDEO: Hillary Clinton Book Siging, Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadana, CA -06/29/2003'

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/938640/posts

[Freebird Forever]

Hopefully that will be prefixed by the word cell.

Well put!!!

[F.J. Mitchell]

In Bills case,if justice ever prevails, he'll be called inmate.

[InvisibleChurch]

i'd be satisfied for 'first mute' if he would just shut up... what is it about the xxxlintons that they don't think the internet stretches across the atlantic ocean? they seem to say their more moronic statements in europe

[ALOHA RONNIE]

T'is ugly and uglier...


.."IS it SAFE?" = HILLARY on Senate Armed Services Committee..

http://www.TheAlamoFILM.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=629

[Gritty]

It's interesting she goes to England to suck up to her adoring fans on the 4th of July. Is it perhaps because she secretly identifies with King George III? Or, is it because she doesn't want to be in the country on this date and thereby remind decent Americans what a corrupt and despotic legacy she has already had and intends to further here?

The Queen of England is very old and probably won't live much longer. Perhaps Her Heinous should accede to the wishes of her gushing English fans, stay there, and become Queen of England herself? She's much more suited for the trappings of a monarchy than the calling of a constitutional Republic!

[johnb838]

Good God, they mush over them the way Americans do the Queen.

[johnb838]

She says she can sign a book in four seconds and have meaningful contact with the buyer.

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Where's the "Seamen Alert?"

[johnb838]

The Queen ain't that old and she might go another thirty years if she's anything like her mother.

[DLfromthedesert]

No way can Bill Clinton ever be referred to as a "gentleman", first or otherwise.

[Lucky2]

On Thursday, fans in central London queued for up to five hours outside a leading bookstore, simply for the pleasure of seeing "a future US president".


I think Mad Ivan has some work to do. Geeze, what a terrible thought to think that that witch could possibly be "a future US preisdent". This deserves a barf alert!

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Britain-Hillary-Clinton.html

Hillary Clinton Rules Out 2004 Race
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


Filed at 10:30 a.m. ET

LONDON (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Clinton said Friday she has no plans to run for the American presidency in 2004, but wasn't so certain about 2008.

The former first lady told British Broadcasting Corp. radio that she hoped her country would elect a female leader during her lifetime and jokingly suggested the male partner could be called ``First Mate.''

Clinton has drawn huge crowds on her whirlwind tour of Britain to promote her memoirs -- fans in London waited in a line stretching five blocks Thursday evening for a chance to have her sign a copy.

Asked whether the book was part of a publicity campaign for a return to the White House, Clinton said she had no plans or intentions for the 2004 presidency.

After that?

``2008 is an eternity in American politics but I think that the role I'm playing, trying to bring attention to issues, trying to get people to focus on what's at stake is a very appropriate role for me,'' she said.

Clinton suggested that the partner of a female president could be called first mate but said she didn't know if her husband and former President Bill Clinton would ever have the chance to find out what that position would be like.

The former first lady also told the ``Woman's Hour'' program about how she felt in the wake of her husband's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Recalling having to help her husband write a speech shortly after he had admitted his relationship with Lewinsky, Clinton said she ``wasn't in much of a mood to do it, but when you love someone there is not a perfect person, in my belief.

``Love and marriage is between two imperfect people. For me it was important that I sort out my feelings on many different levels.''

Clinton plans another book signing on Saturday in Oxford, where her daughter, Chelsea, is studying at Oxford University. Clinton plans to return to the United States on Sunday.

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