No, no, no no, no, no, no, no...
The Lord does not compromise like that, weak people do.
You are basically saying that God would say, when speaking to a group of abortion proponents, tell them I think abortion is o. k. so that they will accept me and hear "the rest" of My message...
What I meant to say is that I think Billy thought that he was right to evoke the popular Clintons while in NY. He was not right to do so. I have also heard him similarly evoke such "distinguished" personages as the Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr., too. I don't know if he has similarly embraced some "third-world" tyrants, popular with the American leadership class too, such as Fidel Castro. He may have invoked Nelson Mandela too.