Esquire: Clinton is world's "most influential man" (Barf Alert!)

Reuters ^ | 11/15/05 | Reuters

[wagglebee]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is "The Most Influential Man in the World," according to Esquire magazine.

The magazine has designated him as "the most powerful agent of change in the world" despite his lack of electoral standing and the fact he was laid low by a heart attack ahead of last year's presidential election.

The magazine highlights Clinton's accomplishments in its December issue, which goes on newsstands on Thursday, profiling the world's "Best and Brightest" men and women.

Since leaving office, Clinton has been so active that his post-presidency amounts to "a third term" for the Democrat who held the White House from 1992 to 2000, the magazine said. He has tackled global issues from AIDS, poverty and global warming to the recovery from last December's Indian Ocean tsunami.

Esquire editor David Granger argued that Clinton was poised to become "something like a president of the world or at least a president of the world's non-governmental organizations."

But it will mean giving up a leadership role in the Democratic party or pushing the political career of his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, seen as a 2008 White House contender.

In the article, Clinton said that he remained loyal to his party, adding: "I'm not the leader of the opposition anymore."

[Frank_2001]

Oh, please tell me that's NOT photoshopped!;))

[Bubbatuck]

Please don't say things like that. He's still under Secret Service protection, and you don't want a visit from them. We can disagree without making references to murder.

[Diplomat]

Harding drank bathtub gin and gambled in the White House during Prohibition. As president, he slept around on his wife with multiple mistresses, including getting one of them pregnant. He was considered a charming, handsome man. He was Bill Clinton before bubba was himself.

The only difference is that Harding died in office under somewhat mysterious circumstances. His manner of death is consistent with poisoning, though it certainly didn't go down like that when it happened.

If I said "Harding died while president, in San Francisco, where the four attending physicians could not agree on a cause of death, and, his body was embalmed within an hour of his death and no autopsy was performed under orders of his wife," would you believe it?

Believe it.

[willyboyishere]

As I am sure I said four five or even six years ago, if Bill Clinton is the most powerful man in the world, it only proves what a mediocre, retrogressive , fatuous, pathetic and self-deluded place the world is, at least the "officlal" world as it is defined by its political celebrities.

[KamperKen]

I think our trains are on parallel tracks. Harding was personally dissolute, without a doubt. Just like JFK, who's probably the most egregious example of all, worse than Clinton. However, I'm not aware that Harding was on the take. His immediate circle certainly was, just like with the Grant administration.

Lyndon Johnson probably collected the largest fortune through his political shakedowns and kickbacks of any politican in the history of this country. And there, was of course, his infamous stolen senatorial election and his faux military career.

Clinton's criminality was all-pervasive, not just confined to money matters, and history is not finished with him. Had Clinton only been personally dissolute, like Harding.

[Light Speed]

Horowitz recalls that the U.S. first faced the al-Qaeda terrorists in Somalia in 1993. Despite the fact that U.S. troops were in that beleaguered nation merely to feed the starving people, 18 Americans were killed and 80 wounded. "A dead U.S. soldier was dragged through the streets in an act calculated to humiliate his comrades and his country."

Clinton's reaction to this outrageous challenge to the United States of America was to cut and run, like a frightened rabbit, giving the murderous thugs of al-Qaeda a victory.

Under the leadership of Clinton, "there was no military response to this humiliation. The greatest superpower the world has ever seen did nothing. It accepted defeat and left."

Clinton's Strategy: 'Accept Defeat'

Clinton's Failure in Somalia Encouraged bin Laden

Said bin Laden in an interview with an ABC news reporter: **"We have seen in the last decade the decline of the American government and the weakness of the American soldier who is ready to wage Cold Wars and unprepared to fight long wars. This was proven in Beirut when the Marines fled after two explosions. It also proves they can run in less than 24 hours, and this was also repeated in Somalia. We are ready for all occasions. We rely on Allah."

David N. Bossie, author of "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11" (Thomas Nelson/WND), backs up his claims with copious evidence gleaned from extensive research and exclusive interviews.

Bossie’s book has won a major endorsement. **Clinton’s own CIA director, R. James Woolsey, has praised it: "This book proves, once and for all, that the FBI and CIA's failures that led to 9/11 were caused directly by Bill Clinton himself."

[Mind-numbed Robot]

This is a completely transparent hack article to tout Clinton as the next UN secretary general.

Absolutely correct, and as a side benefit to push Hillary for Pres.

[nopardons]

And THAT is Clinton's legacy.

[PhilDragoo]

To Bossie add Richard Miniter, Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror, Regnery, 2003.

Clinton should indeed be UN Secretary General, then the facility tenants should be evicted and deported* and the property converted to a USO.

*With the exception of Clinton who shall be tried for treason, convicted and provided the Nosenko bunker cube for the duration of his natural life.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Yeah, Bill Clinton, the perjurer, really really really helped his political party in the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections.

Oh, wait...

[backhoe]

-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research -- -The Clinton Files-- -Murder, Inc. [repost] -- -ATTENTION BLOODHOUNDS-- -Women in the Clinton Era: Abuse,Intimidation and Smears-- Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention Catastrophic intelligence Failure - Clinton's Bin Laden GATE CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON

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And no, I am not kidding about the tagline.

If one-tenth of all the security violations on The Clinton's watch come home to roost, America will never be the same...

-Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research -- -The Clinton Files-- -Murder, Inc. [repost] -- -ATTENTION BLOODHOUNDS-- -Women in the Clinton Era: Abuse,Intimidation and Smears-- Hillary's delegates spit on and taunt Police Honor Guard at her Convention Catastrophic intelligence Failure - Clinton's Bin Laden GATE CIA Officials Reveal What Went Wrong – Clinton to Blame DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON

[time4good]

We laugh in disgust but what lurks below the surface is an example or actuality of how the blind of the world will be seduced into accepting the one who will be antichrist.

Slick sure seems like a dry run, at the least.

[cubreporter]

Look at that face. Is that the face of a clown or what? A man with no scruples, character or dignity. This man is pathetic. Really. Seriously a pathetic needy individual. He'll go down in history allright but it won't be for his genius...it'll be for his arrogance, lack of character, integrity and most importantly his LEWINSKY LEGACY.

Clintin the worst president in the history of our country. BAR NONE!

[cubreporter]

Thanks. :)

[cubreporter]

That would be about right OR in his own little world of fantasy. Or maybe in Lewinsky World. He's got lots of worlds.

[cubreporter]

:) Thanks.

[MEGoody]

Esquire magazine? Never heard of it.

[quark]

Please. As you probably know, it is a military expression that, used in this context, means "let fly your comments on the magazine cover." Sheesh...

[Chickensoup]

Isnt this the same magazine that had him in the big tie on the cover?

[Chickensoup]

which is odd considering Esquire was once a fav of hetero rakes



Yeah, in 1972.