The Clintonesque challenge (Will *Bubba's sex addiction doom Hillary's 2008 run?)

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ^ | 12/29/06 | Lynne Duke

[Libloather]

The Clintonesque challenge
Between his charisma and past indiscretions, ex-president risks upstaging wife’s likely run
By Lynne Duke
Washington Post
Posted on Fri, Dec. 29, 2006

NEW YORK – **SNIP**

That Bill is the ex-president known for his outsize appetites and indiscipline, the Bill who still revels in the limelight, who runs with global jet-setters. He is prone to pop up in the press for even the smallest of curiosities, like being spotted at dinner with another woman – bad news for an ex-president already infamous for marital infidelity.

**SNIP**

From now until Election Day 2008, the national fascination with the Clintons and their marriage will be central to the race. The media-industrial complex will again feed like hungry hounds on the Clintons, their past and future; on the Clintons and their mysteries; on power and politics as the Clinton lifeblood propelling her run against all odds.

She will face haters. She’ll face sexists. There’ll be folks who think she’s power-mad, including some still queasy about what she knew and when she knew it when it came to Bill’s marital indiscretions.

**SNIP**

This year, both the U.S. and Canadian press ran stories about Bill’s periodic meetings with a Canadian auto-parts magnate turned politician, Belinda Stronach. Both have characterized themselves as just friends since they met in 2001 at a fundraiser. But tongues wagged nonetheless, because of the baggage.

**SNIP**

Since the Lewinsky scandal, Bill has received counseling for sex addiction. He and Hillary have grown as a couple. She has burst out of her role as wife and first lady to become a politician in her own right.

**SNIP**

Both Clintons declined to be interviewed for this article. Ditto for several members of her innermost circle, known as Hillaryland.

**SNIP**

[Libloather]

She will face haters.

About the same way Hillary Rodham hated Richard Nixon?

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (Top L) looks over at President George W. Bush as Clinton and his wife U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea (Top R) attend former U.S. President Gerald Ford's state funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington January 2, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Bourg (UNITED STATES)

[4Liberty]

Sex addition. Is that what we call sexual harassment nowadays?

[dforest]

Seems dangerous to me. Slick Willies exploits could create a situation in which Hellery could be blackmailed by foreign or domestic entities. This alone should be a top reason to keep her out of the White House!

[4Liberty]

I know he's already 'challenged' the Rule of Law (with perjury).

[4Liberty]

He didn't care about Juanita. Why care about Hillary?

[Huntress]

I predict (not entirely in jest) that Bill will die sometime this year, thereby getting rid of all of his baggage and allowing Hillary! to run as the tragic widow.

[Wolverine]

ping

[GoldCountryRedneck]

.... He is prone to pop up...."

Interesting choice of words, that.

[doug from upland]

Rape is not an indiscretion. It is a crime which should result in castration and hanging certain things from a tree.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

BJ Clinton better have a food taster as Hillary may want a sympathy vote.

[weegee]

It's Hillary's own fraudulent persona that will tank her political viability.

Her husband had a history of sexually harassing co-workers up to and including rape. None of US knew it at the time they first began THEIR run for the White House but when the Gennifer Flowers story first surfaced, Hillary told US that she wasn't just some "Tammy Wynnette" standing by her man and that she wouldn't settle for being cheated on.

Time and time again that was proven to be a lie.

She then expected US to believe that she really was in the dark about Bill and Monica until shortly before he apologized for the public being confused about what he meant in his earlier statements like "I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN, MISS LEWINSKY".

So she has always seemingly been aware of his cheating ways and that was acceptable to her. Theirs is a marriage of convenience for political power. How much time have they even spent together since they left the White House?

Any more photos surface of them dancing in swimsuits to music they only hear in their heads?

FRAUDS.

Have to wonder if either of them put up a Christmas tree this past year and if either of them did, if it was decorated with condoms and syringes like their old days in the White House.

[doug from upland]

Did the Clintons fall asleep as they did at the Reagan funeral?

[Rodney King]

If it didn't stop him, why would it stop his wife? Unless the Nina Burleigh's of the world won't vote for her because she is competition for them.

[The Westerner]

His face stood out in the crowd yesterday, truly beet red when singing a hymn. Why?

[I see my hands]

To: Reuters

Could your photographer make the Clintons appear any more dominant as they loom over the insubstantial and children abandoned Bushs?

The next 9-11 is on you, and it wont be free.

[jtill]

Please, no. We should be praying for good health for him during 2007 and 2008.

If he should die and leave her as a tragic widow, fools will flock to the polls to vote for her. The sympathy vote will make her president. UGH!

[weegee]

NOW supported a serial rapist going back on decades of political correctness and telling us that "the first grope is free".

[AdvisorB]

[Miss Didi]

No, Bubba faked crying by wetting his finger with his saliva and dabbing his eyes. Herself was very chatty with Jimmah and a pill during the rest of the ceremony. The faithful daughter was brought along to complete the lovely family picture.

[elcid1970]

Look at that glint in their eyes, the raw hatred which the Clinton threesome aim at George W. and his wife.

Evil. Pure evil that they are.