Posted on 09/25/2006 8:54:44 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
>>Even the "anger" at the staffers afterward for having booked the Wallace interview was calculated. <<
I doubt it.
Exactly.
Acting "outraged" and "angry" at a question is a tactic used by practiced liars to distract from the substance of their answer. Clinton has done this before (and it backfired on him them, I'm not convinced however it will backfire on him now with people other than conservatives who already are on to him).
I agree.
The more successful the GOP policies are, the less significance and relevance bubba & buddies & WINO will have.
Even libs don't like being publicly associated with a loser when the numbers are really high against them. Matter of fact, that is one of the stays of their platform: if they have a bigger public voice (more modulation power on the public microphone, for instance, which they've enjoyed for decades with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Hollywood, NY Times, etc. etc.), they feel empowered and they flaunt their "superiority." Trouble with this is they still (STILL) haven't figured out that quiet, solid, hard-working, regular Americans are not with them. When this fact gets into their mental processes (because the elections and the media are going against them, toward fairness), and it is going to, I predict they are going to get very, very quiet.
As we often read here on FR, their friends will need to be on suicide watch for their fellow libs. "Morose" will hardly describe the depths of despair these folks will feel when the tide of right thinking sweeps over America.
I completely agree. The Scumbag was trying to manufacture another "Sister Souljah" moment.
If you read any of the kiss-and-tell books by staffers during the Clinton years, they say he did this ALL THE TIME, going nutso on someone on his staff for some perceived mistake, then 15 minutes later acting like everything is okay.
It's his management style.
Clinton's anger with Wallace was real. His marriage to Hillary is fake.
Yeah, I guess.... LOL!
I think Clinton was mad because he thought he had a "deal" with Murdoch and FNC that they would treat him with the usual MSM kid gloves so he could boast about the charity they were both involved with. But for once in his public life, a media outlet actually gave him a fastball, at least in his mind. Clinton being the egotist he is took great umbrage at anyone daring to question anything about his presidency, especially the giant scab that he has been picking on lately - his utter failure to stop Bin Laden or stem the tide of terrorism. He was more angry that anyone would ask him about that than he was the substance of the question.
No kidding. Everything from these pros is for effect. This is about as bright as the self professed genius class, the "journalists", letting us in on the Pope's huge faux paux, his error of inexperience. PULEESE. When you are the Pope or ex-President, nothing comes out of your mouth without focus groups and the vetting that goes with it.
We agree about his lack of emotional control. What I believe happened is he planned the whole thing and then, predictably (except to bubba) he got revved up and lost it.
That's how he ran America for eight years. Bright guy, deeply maladjusted personality, poor judgment, short fuse. Cruise missiles for toys, citizens incinerated at Waco: you know the drill.
In bill clinton's mind, NOTHING gets in his way and stays there. He still hasn't figured out he isn't president. He still hasn't figured out history is burning him even as we sit here typing about his legacy. (cough)
If so, he completely blew it. With the exception of Howard Dean, not even the Dims are coming out to praise him and defend him. And his toadies in the DBM are just shaking their heads in disbelief.
Yup. Good one, Gretchen.
Mr. Clinton is a strange boy. He has to be the center of attention; and then only to be praised.
He is a marvelous example of why politicians who have bad tempers don't make good leaders.
I hear Senator McCain, btw, has quite a low boiling point?
I think Slick had one of his everyday, common, self important, all about me purple faced rages, nothing more, and to read anything else in it is absurd.
EVERYTHING is calculated with these Clintons.
No decision is made by happenstance. They even did a focus group to see what kind of dog to get and what vacation they should take.
Even the tirade on the staff was planned...maybe they didn't know it was coming (better for effect) but it was planned.
Carter legacy = 444 days of captivity for Iranian embassy hostages.
Clinton legacy = White stain on blue dress.
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