Caption *Bubba/Bubbette Clinton, First Lady

NY Mag ^ | 10/08/07

[Libloather]

It all starts, if you think about it, on Inauguration Day. Would Bill Clinton hold the Bible for his wife? It’d be a lovely tableau, but fraught with ambiguous symbolism—is this another twofer? A passing of the torch? An unfortunate reminder she wouldn’t be there without him? (None of these ideas is something the first female president of the United States would want to communicate to all posterity.) The questions would continue with the festivities: How are the two Clintons introduced? As the Former and Mrs. President Clinton? Mr. and Mrs. Presidents Clinton? President Clinton and Mr. Clinton?

Ask Hillary’s staff, and they’ll tell you they haven’t gotten around to thinking about questions of pageantry and protocol, though one aide admits they’re already trying to determine whether she’d be Mrs. or Madam President, which is complicated enough. But every Washington insider eventually wonders aloud about these niceties. And, vastly more important, what he would do all day. Presumably, Bill Clinton would not kick off the White House Easter-egg roll. He wouldn’t obsess over Christmas-tree decorations. The only traditional First Lady responsibility one could really envision him embracing would be the state dinners—not the menus themselves (unless the chef could be persuaded to do cheeseburgers, or takeout Chinese) but the hosting part, the part that involves schmoozing and storytelling and the subtle diplomacy of the seating chart. “Maybe the press won’t cover what’s on the menu, finally,” says a former Clinton-administration official. “It’ll be more like what the actual discussions were at the dinner tables.”

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[RichInOC]

AAAAHHHHH!!!

I really didn’t need to see that.

[Libloather]

Notice the color of the dress. (It ain’t blue.)

[JennysCool]

I've always felt the best way to torpedo Hillary is to rib Bill about his possible "First Lady" status. His ego simply can't take becoming a laughingstock.

[Tzimisce]

...he should be in a blue dress with a beret...

[Theresawithanh]

Billy looks sorta like Lady Bird Johnson in that picture.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Caption this.... hmmmm...

How about “Oh, gee, there’s a stain on me!”

[RichInOC]

No, really, I don’t want to stare at that thing any more than I absolutely have to. That’s only slightly less disturbing than the Washington Mutual commercial where Bill the WaMu guy discovers the Bankers’ Pen guys opening online accounts in the nude.

[Libloather]

[meanie monster]

ROFLOL!

[doc1019]

Already a laughingstock … to be revisited would be the ultimate disgrace. I don’t think his personal ego would survive Hilery being president.

[meanie monster]

ROFLOL!

[Old Sarge]

Dear Merciful Gawd, don’t let that come to pass.

[Libloather]

ROFLOL!

That's a real cover on the next NY mag. Buy one and keep it as a reminder for your grandkids...

[alicewonders]

I’m not sure Bill would survive his wife’s presidency. If she gets elected, she won’t need Bill anymore. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if he would become a victim of “Arkancide” himself.

[Prov3456]

The same thought occurred to me!

[Libloather]

[USMA '71]

I always thought that Billy-boy had to squat to pee... that picture pretty much caps it!

[Eastbound]

’ . . . and you can have the car. I won’t be needing it.’

[True Republican Patriot]

Bill Clinton will NEVER allow Hildabeast to upstage HIS ADMINISTRATION! It’s so clear now, that’s why Soros bet all of his influense on a Muslim nobody named Barack Obama with no experience and profound stupidity and NO Brains totally!!