Clinton Advising All Candidates: Lying in Bill's Shadow

TIME ^ | January 19, 2004 | NANCY GIBBS AND MATTHEW COOPER

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[My2Cents]

With Bill "Kiss of Death" Clinton forming the strategy, and Michael "I'll Have Some" Moore "Pie" and Al Frankenfraud being the intellectual leaders of the Democrats, I am very confident this election will be a complete blow out re-election of Bush.

[nwrep]

I am very confident this election will be a complete blow out re-election of Bush.

I am not so sure. Nothing I have seen so far indicates a landslide. The best I see Bush doing at this point is around 300 votes.

[My2Cents]

300 electoral votes...I'll take it. But the fact that his approval ratings at this point in the election year are higher than Reagan's in '84, or Nixon's in '72, are evidence that something big might be coming.

[annyokie]

Beelzebubba just won't go away, will he?

[FairOpinion]

"That is not a problem the Republicans have. From the moment they rode in, they knew exactly what they wanted to do. Where Clinton stayed up all night brainstorming policy only to revisit the outcome the next day, Bush is famously decisive and anchored in his beliefs, charging forward, not looking back."

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Bush is a LEADER, Clinton was a policy wonk.

[T. Jefferson]

I am not so sure. Nothing I have seen so far indicates a landslide. The best I see Bush doing at this point is around 300 votes.

My bet is 45 states for Bush, 10 months to see who's crystal ball is right.

[uncbob]

AS long as the GOP refuses to do anything about the vote fraud in the big cities NOTHING is certain

[nwrep]

My bet is 45 states for Bush

Are you counting Mexican states too?

:-)

[Cosmo]

Bush will take at least 46 states.

[CTOCS]

And how many dem's switched parties during the Clinton years? Wasn't it some sort of record?

He lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, majority of Governorships.

He was impeached for dishonesty.

In any other field of endeavor, this guy would be a pariah, or behind bars!

[Eva]

Ah oh, we know about those long hand scrawled notes on legal pads from the state of the union speech that Dick Morris wrote for Clinton and he hand copied onto his legal pad before handing it over to be typed, so that he could claim that he wrote every word himself. Well, he did, just not the original copy. My guess is that copying in long hand is Bill's trick for memorizing. He has a photographic memory which is enhanced by writing things out himself.

[a_whitemanX]

Bush is a leader, for he is a man of action and not just words. Clinton was always a man of words and never any action. That is why we have the "War on Terror" today.

Nevertheless, the fact that Clinton is advising all these morons is really a blessing. It was Clinton who destroyed the Democratic party just so he could hold on to his own power and, at the same time, sent many Democratic canidates down in flames. Now the great thing about that is not just that Clinton is still at it, it's even funnier the DUMBOCRATS are still listening to him!

DUBBYA IN LANDSLIDE FOR SURE!

-a_whitemanX,

[My2Cents]

The Horny One. LOL...

[cyncooper]

My guess is that copying in long hand is Bill's trick for memorizing. He has a photographic memory which is enhanced by writing things out himself.

Exactly. I've always thought his photographic memory is what his supporters (including many in the media) mistake for his "genius". The lie about writing his own stuff I pointed out on the other thread, too. TIME seems a little fatuous here.

[LasVegasMac]

And how many dem's switched parties during the Clinton years? Wasn't it some sort of record? He lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, majority of Governorships. He was impeached for dishonesty. In any other field of endeavor, this guy would be a pariah, or behind bars!

That is what amazed me then and still does.

This walking pile of crap has "STINK" written all over - yet half this country thinks he the best thing since sliced bread.

Am I crazy or is half this country crazy?

Took me awhile to come to the conclusion that are just a whole bunch of loony, gimme money 'cuz I'm too lazy, the Gov needs to provide for my every want and need, to hell with anything else - save the rain forest / dolphins / turtles / microscopic mites / old fench posts / make me feel good, please...types out there.

About half of this country.

Man, I do feel sorry for them.

LVM

[Dog Anchor]

"Therefore, the American people have wisely established a custom against allowing any man to hold that office for more than two consecutive terms. But every shred of power which a President exercises while in office vanishes absolutely when he has once left office. An ex-President stands precisely in the position of any other private citizen, and has not one particle more power to secure a nomination or election than if he had never held office at all, indeed, he probably has less because of the very fact that he has held the office."
- Theodore Roosevelt

[Mo1]

And so Clinton is the ghost in all their political machines, massaging Dick Gephardt's message, editing John Edwards' speeches, matchmaking between Wesley Clark and the party rainmakers. If too much time passes between calls, friends say, Clinton gets a little peeved, like a mother wanting her kids to succeed when they head off to college, but not without her help. "He knows what they are going through," says a source who chats with Clinton often. "He has helped them think through their own strengths and weaknesses." But none of the Democrats can do that without first coming to grips with Clinton's, deciding what to borrow and what to bury.

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[Dog]

These two reporter earned this years knee pad award...if you get my drift.