Posted on 09/21/2006 1:49:21 PM PDT by presidio9
Former president Bill Clinton praised wife Hillary's prospects to be elected the next US leader, but said her possible White House run is a taboo topic at home.
"I'm superstitious about it," Clinton told NBC television in an interview, saying that, for the moment, his wife's sole focus is her bid for reelection to the US Senate in November.
"One of our family rules is don't look past the next election," he said.
Clinton, interviewed in New York, insisted that his wife still has not reached a final decision about running for the White House, but said if she does, she would make a "great" president.
"I think she'd probably be a great president, because she's got the right kind of skills and she's got a good heart and a good mind," he said.
"She runs things well, makes good decisions -- and because of all the experience we've had," he told NBC.
"The most important thing to me is whether she'd be good for the country, and she really would be great," he said.
But, he quickly added, her US Senate reelection campaign comes first.
"I want her to win the Senate seat. She deserves it," he said.
"She's been phenomenally effective for New York. She's done more work with Republican senators to do joint things than I think anybody could have possibly anticipated. She's really done a good job."
She probably has "Hillary 2008" posters plastered all over the house.
Remember the NOTE.
It must be true. Bill Clinton only lies about sex.
I thought his was "...don't look past the next eRection."
What's the NOTE?
The Clintons are such notorious liars that I wouldn't believe them if they told the truth.
Never, ever believe a Clinton.
In fairness, one of them lives in Westchester and the other lives in Georgetown. They probably go weeks without saying a word to eachother.
Hey, he probably isn't lying about this one. They don't LIVE in the same home. So, I doubt he has her ugly face plastered anywhere at HIS house.
The notion that they ever spend any time in the same house is the real whopper in this story.
Bill wants her in the Senate so he can be on the prowl.
Per who's instructions?
I doubt he talks to her anyway.
BJ knows that a lot of his "free time" will be eliminated if he has to live in the same house with Hitlery and that it would then be HER staff that controls the comings and goings.
I believe it. When would they get a chance to discuss it, they're never there at the same time.
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Yeah, just like she`s made a great Senator if you can call going on an 8 month book tour and spending taxpayer cash like it`s water "great". Oh yes, she did do one thing though...A few years after she was first elected by pardons, we had a huge electrical blackout that she promptly blamed Bush for and she said she would see to it that it would never happen again. This year the very first day the temperature hit 100 degrees, the electric went out again, only this time even worse. I was without electric for 8 days. This time she didn`t blame Bush, so I guess she did accomplish something. She shut up for once.
I just wish we could stop hearing the daily musings of this traitor(liar,philanderer,rapist,impeached ex-president...)
What power they wield over the MSM. They will never go away.
Being in separate houses also makes it harder for her to throw ashtrays at him.
Mention of THE NOTE first appeared in the book, "The Mysterious Life of Bill Clinton", by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:
For a short time after their marriage, Hillary was busy doing legal elsewhere, and Bill was unsupervised.
He began to have a honey, of course, and somehow in Hillary's absence, things got a little out of control, and this young woman became convinced --with no discouragement from Bill-- that she was the Mrs. Bill Clinton To Be.
It was serious enough that Hillary prevailed on her retired Chicago dad and her brother to come down to Arkansas and keep and eye on Bill, whom she knew all too well, and to generally be around constantly and make it impossible for him to start TAGGING the chicks who helped out on his campaign.
One of his campaign workers --a woman whose name escapes me now, but who was in The Clinton Camp for several decades-- found THE NOTE from Hillary to Bill regarding this matter.
Basically, it was something like, "OK, Bill, I know you need a screw every now and then, BUT DON'T FORGET OUR BARGAIN."
And ever since then, folks have been speculating EXACTLY what that bargain is.
The popular version is that Hillary will tolerate his affairs, as long as they remain married and Bill in fact permits Hillary to govern through him.
But that's just speculation, strictly speaking.
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