Posted on 03/21/2006 4:12:25 AM PST by mslee
Senator's word is now 'final,' says the ex-Prez
WASHINGTON - After being surprised by her husband's role in the Dubai ports deal, Sen. Hillary Clinton has insisted that Bill Clinton give her "final say" over what he says and does, well-placed sources said. The former President agreed to give his wife a veto to avoid his habit of making controversial headlines that could hurt her chances of returning to the White House, multiple sources told the Daily News.
"He knows it's Hillary's time now," said an adviser close to both Clintons who expects to play a key role in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.
Hillary Clinton's handlers are keeping a close rein on the former President's schedule to try to prevent another embarrassing screwup like their competing roles in the Dubai ports deal.
While she was blasting the Bush administration for allowing Dubai to run six of the country's ports, he was advising Dubai on how to sell the deal.
"Hillary has final say," said the adviser, and the ex-President's staff has been warned not to do or say anything without running it by the senator's handlers.
"That was true in the White House during the [2000] Senate campaign," recalled another longtime aide who stayed close to the ex-President after he left office. "If he said the sky was blue and she said the sky was purple, then the sky was purple."
Hillary Clinton's aides denied that her husband's comments have been a liability but concede she is calling the shots.
"Since she got elected five years ago and given their hectic schedules, it is more interesting how little there has been of this," said the senator's campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis, referring to their contradictory statements.
"She is the elected official. She makes the ultimate decisions," Lewis said.
Bill Clinton's spokesman Jay Carson added, "Anyone who says he is doing everything he can to help her get reelected is absolutely right."
The Hillary camp recognizes the 42nd President's enormous political value to her race for the White House.
To boost his spouse's Oval Office bid, the former President is hosting several get-togethers around the country with ex-staffers and is planning some regional town hall meeting and panel discussions to talk about success stories from what Hillary Clinton likes to call "our administration."
Bill Clinton will cite expanding the earned income tax credit and balancing the federal budget, Clinton insiders say. He's also a star attraction at fund-raisers for his wife.
Still, the senator's advisers are trying to put a muzzle on her husband's more controversial comments and actions that have hindered her effort to paint herself as a national security hawk - a crucial part of her political makeover.
The Dubai port controversy was the latest episode that allowed her critics to charge she was being politically duplicitous. Because of their contrasting actions, the Clintons were lampooned by conservatives, and Hillary Clinton faded away as a leading voice of criticism for the ports deal.
The ex-President also sent his spokesman as well as his wife's handlers scrambling when he lashed out at President Bush during a speech in Dubai last November, saying the Iraq war was "a big mistake." Hillary Clinton has supported the war.
Bill Clinton jokingly admits he's a liability. "It's fun to be able to say what you want, and I do that, but I do try to avoid doing anything that complicates Hillary's life," he says in a now-routine line in his public remarks.
The senator's camp knows, however, when it's politically prudent to put her near her husband, like when they visited victims of Hurricane Katrina, the funeral for Coretta Scott King and in Israel at the anniversary of the assassination of Mideast peacemaker Yitzhak Rabin.
I am convinced that Bubba will expire in bed with some bimbo, and the Secret Service will have to do a fast tap dance to cover it up. I just hope he doesn't buy the farm before the 2008 election. The Heinous Harridan as the grieving (black) widow is too much to contemplate! Not to mention all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the MSM, the all-day funeral, speech after speech after speech, ad nauseum. )))))SHIVER(((((
I think if the scales tip more in her favor in being a widow vs being Bill's wife, Bill should be alittle nervous....
LMAO.
You paint a very vivid visual, Shooter!! And you know, it all could come to fruition, knowing the players!! LOL!
Given their past "culture of death" history, you are SO right! Bill better double his Secret Service detail when he is alone with his "wifey".
I was just going to say that Vince Foster has been put in charge of overseeing over zealous reporters.
LMBO!!That is a great one..
This is more like it:
THREE WOMEN AND A FUNERAL:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR 3
- by Mia T, 03.18.06
er head bobbed nonstop in servile compliance.... Her gaze was fawning, fixed on him.... Her mouth was frozen shut, corners upturned a carefully calibrated nine degrees above the horizontal.... Not a smile.... (Never a smile).... Just enough of an upturn to hide the always-present anger. His sock puppet was on display.... Finally....
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- It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
G. K. Chesterton
... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.
These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real.
Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration."
It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief."
Mia T, 10.02.05
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006
The clinton-planted story:
The truth:
Is it ex-rapist, or rapist? I believe Juanita is telling the truth.
Democrats have also let George Soros take over their once meaningful party and turned it into a hateful, blame America first third world party of the most sordid kind.....Clintonitas is a dreadful disease, sort of a demise that leaves them valueless and empty, chasing after Kyoto type agendas, cloning, abortion, same sex marriage, global warming to the extreme, willing to let the terrorists take as many lives as necessary to keep the “peace”. Hillary is nothing more than a cloned idea of Hollywood and the media……an empty pant suit being rammed down our collective throats daily has had a numbing effect like Novocain. Hopefully the Novocain will wear off in time to fully recognize what a thoroughly sinister person the real Hillary is. Ever wonder what the constant bug eyed insincere, mouth open looks you get from Hillary and Nancy Pelosi are really all about…..?
He drops the pants,
She wears the pants...
Yeah, I mostly wonder how they manage to get their jaws unhinged that far. The night Bill first won the Presidency, Hillary and Tipper were onstage with those two big flaps totally unhinged big enough for two B-52 bombers and a small helicopter to be hangared. Many poor little flying insects met their untimely demise and were hastened on to Bug Glory by the gargantuan jaws of Hillary and Tipper on those lolling tongues. They never looked more like twins after that than they did then.
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