And don't forget that she just loves Slick Willie.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/golf/10/30/wie.clinton.ap/
"It was really awesome," Wie said. "It was really cool to see a former president."
She is a junior in high school who does not want to engage in politics and she made a bland PC statement.
It was the same with John Elway who turned down a meeting with Clinton by saying "he needed to get an MRI on his knee" and was later seen golfing in the afternoon.
She's really young and she's probably too busy playing golf to know what a bum he is.
Wie said, "It was really cool to see a former president."
Big deal. We disliked Clinton more than most - especially when he'd cause them to shut the freeway down for an hour while he traveled out to a golf course on the other side of the island.
Nonetheless, it was "cool" to see 'a president' (generic emphasis) at the Veterans' Day parade here in 1998. It was also "cool" to see Bob Hope. The preparations for something that big were bigger than anything we'd seen with secret service about, police snipers on the hotel roofs, Marine I hovering into Waikiki, and the President riding to his bullet-proof shelter in a black SUV.
What Michele Wie said sounded pretty generic to me. Besides, she's 17, a student at one of the toughest prep schools on the island, and a pro golfer. I really doubt she spends much time contemplating politics.
I would think that anybody would be excited to see any President of the United States. I met President Bush 1, was on President Clinton's Inaugural Committee (military, no choice, but still found it exciting), and President Bush 2 and was happy to see all of them. Most Americans have never met a President. She would have been happy to see any President.