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Clinton’s Life in Exile: The Once-Powerful Political Couple Now Seeks Attention, Audience
Newsweek ^ | 23-05-19 | BILL POWELL

Posted on 05/23/2019 12:59:12 PM PDT by Monrose72

One evening earlier this year, an old friend and adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton sat down with the former president for dinner at a quiet Manhattan restaurant. Bill, the friend says, looked thinner and more tired than he had in some time. He is 72 now, 15 years on from open-heart surgery and the complications that arose from it. He was, the friend says, a “bit sad, and more than a bit angry.”The 2020 race for the White House was underway, and not many of the ever-expanding field of Democratic contenders had phoned him or come calling to discuss what it is like to run a presidential campaign. A lot of the contenders seemed to be scrambling to the left to satisfy the progressive wing of the party “and the angry Twitter-verse,” as Bill’s dinner companion puts it. “This guy’s political brain is still sharp—among the sharpest in the party—and he worries that [the Democratic Party] may be frittering away the chance it has to beat Trump next year.” That’s where the anger comes in. And the sadness? “He realizes, politically, he’s in exile, and to some extent Hillary is too. This is a tough time for them.”

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1 posted on 05/23/2019 12:59:12 PM PDT by Monrose72
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To: Monrose72

Rot in infamy scum!


2 posted on 05/23/2019 1:00:38 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Monrose72

Ah, the rapist president and his psycho bitch wife.

Both they both meet their end in total obscurity.


3 posted on 05/23/2019 1:01:44 PM PDT by chris37 (Monday, March 25 2019 is Maga Day!)
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To: chris37

I Second That!!


4 posted on 05/23/2019 1:06:02 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Monrose72

The Clintons are finished. Period.

They probably should have in 2001-—but oh well.

They’re done.

One thing he did well was the crime bill and the balanced budget.


5 posted on 05/23/2019 1:06:19 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: Monrose72

The incredible shrinking couple.


6 posted on 05/23/2019 1:06:49 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Monrose72
I feel bad for Bill.

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Psyche!


7 posted on 05/23/2019 1:07:55 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

The only thing that could make you miss the Bill Clinton Presidency was.....

The Barack Obama pResidency.....


8 posted on 05/23/2019 1:09:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Monrose72
This is a tough time for them.”

Oh, poor babies. Did Bubba really think he was going to get a free pass from the Me, Too movement?

Hillary! is a two time loser for POTUS position, so what advice can she give -- how to lose?

I never thought I would see this day; but, I am so glad that these two have finally been forced off stage.

9 posted on 05/23/2019 1:15:13 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Monrose72
more than a bit angry.”The 2020 race for the White House was underway, and not many of the ever-expanding field of Democratic contenders had phoned him or come calling...

of course not. Both Clinton’s have been shown to be the corrupt assholes they have always been, and the modern day candidates avoid them like the plague...and rightly so.

10 posted on 05/23/2019 1:16:27 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: Monrose72

Enjoy your bimbos and I’ll-gotten wealth, Bubba. I’m sure you like it more than the prospect of bending nails with Jimmy Carter.


11 posted on 05/23/2019 1:23:46 PM PDT by gundog ( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
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To: tet68

That’s the best thing about the list of Rat candidates. Hillary Clinton is not among them, though she wishes she were the front runner. Donald Trump ended her political career, and she will never get over it.


12 posted on 05/23/2019 1:24:47 PM PDT by djpg
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To: chris37

In retrospect, his presidency was more successful than George W Bush’s. Clinton has to compromise on the budget with Gingrich, and the deficit fell. There was welfare reform. And the economy did well during the second term. Under Bush we spent trillions - and much blood - on the distrous invasion of Iraq. There was big Medicare expansion and lots of wasteful domestic spending The deficit reached the highest level it had ever been up to that point. Illegal immigration went up. And we had the worst recession since the administration of Herbert Hoover. My family did better during Clinton’s presidency than during Bush’s, that’s all I can say


13 posted on 05/23/2019 1:25:48 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: SaveFerris

The only thing that could make you miss the Bill Clinton Presidency was.....

The Barack Obama pResidency.....

... and the George W Bush presidency


14 posted on 05/23/2019 1:27:48 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: djpg

[Donald Trump ended her political career, and she will never get over it.]

Yep


15 posted on 05/23/2019 1:28:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Huskrrrr

The incredible shrinking couple.

Right down there with Dubya


16 posted on 05/23/2019 1:28:41 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: Monrose72

The era of big Clinton is over.


17 posted on 05/23/2019 1:29:21 PM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: Monrose72

Oh. . . poor babies. After what they have done to this country, they belong in jail not having a dinner party.


18 posted on 05/23/2019 1:30:18 PM PDT by Kath
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To: mombonn

“The era of big Clinton is over.”

The era of Big Bush, too. Not much difference between them


19 posted on 05/23/2019 1:31:16 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: rintintin
Yep. W really screwed up his second term for sure.

I knew something bad was coming.

W said: "I've earned some political capital. And I'm going to spend some of it".

Dumber than a mud Kenyan hut. Which is where he has to look for friends now.



Still, I would take W.'s first term over both of Barack's by a long shot. Now, W is buddy-buddy with Barack and hates our great President Trump.
20 posted on 05/23/2019 1:31:53 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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