Does Chris Matthews know something about what Bill Clinton has been up to, so to speak?Posted on 02/03/2007 4:20:04 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Does Chris Matthews know something about what Bill Clinton has been up to, so to speak?
Not once, not twice, but no fewer than 12 times in under two minutes on Friday's Hardball, Matthews raised the question of whether the former president would "behave himself," not cause "distractions" with his "private life," etc. Chris' guest was Hillary confidant and campaign aide Ann Lewis, who is also sister to Rep. Barney Frank.
View video here.
Here's how it went:
Matthews: "Is Bill Clinton going to be a problem in this campaign? Is he going to behave himself?
Lewis pretended not to know what Matthews was referring to, answering instead about how Clinton had been around the campaign and traveling around the world to save lives.
Chris continued to pound the point, getting less subtle: "Is he going to behave himself? Is he going to behave himself, and not cause publicity that's going to get her embarrassed?"
Again, Lewis answered a question different from the one Matthews was asking. She suggested Chris speak with Schumer and Rahm Emanuel as to the number of campaign appearances Bill had made.
Matthews, yet again: "He's going to behave himself, right? No bad publicity?"
After alluding to a New York Times story speculating about Bill's private life, Matthews yet again asked the question: "so he's going to behave himself? He's going to behave himself so Hillary can be the first woman president?"
And then: "I think it would be great for the country if we were not distracted by what you call 'private life'. And I think the way not to get distracted is to have nothing there to distract us."
Lewis tried to change the subject: "Well, I agree with that, but we've just spent how many minutes of this segment, three minutes, talking about there should be nothing to distract us? Why don't we stop talking about it and talk about the issues?" Which goes to prove that time doesn't fly when you're not having fun. They had only been discussing the issue for 1 minute, 15 seconds when Ann complained about the "three minutes."
In closing, Chris went into virtual Hillary campaign-consultant mode, using Lewis as a vehicle to get his message back to Bill: "I want to have some assurances from people that I trust and like to spread the word that he better watch it. I am watching it."
Got it, Bill? Behave!
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Ann Lewis: Hillary Will Keep U.S. 'Safe'
When she runs for president, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton will do a better job than John Kerry did of convincing Americans that she'll keep the nation safe from terrorist attacks and other national security threats, Clinton's top political strategist said Friday.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/3/18/101505.shtml
This was March, 2005
"If anything, Bill will take that as a challenge to his right to do exactly as he sees fit"
Yep. While the wife is on the campaign trail, Ol' Bubba will do his own version of "Home Alone 4"
I picked up this book on early campaigns and read that in the late fifties the repbulicians conducted a poll about extra martial affairs affecting votes and found it would have no effect. Did they run this poll for one their own or JFK? The book implied it was for one of their own.
Who?
Nobody except Bill Clinton . . .
Bill to Matthews:
"Now you listen to me! I never had sex with that woman. I made her what she is, and I can bring her down just as easy."
Who is Bill's paramour at the present time?
Their standard answer is "What he does in his private life is none of our business"...
And if it really were his "private life," we wouldn't know it
Once a horn dog, always...
LOL. Punny you are! But oh so accurate.
The sub deska view is one actively promoted by BJ Clinton.
He is STILL trollin'.
This sort of picture will be a really BIG help to Hillary, who bears her own "sub deska" scars.
Reining in BJ Clinton is like trying to stop a dog from barking.
For most of us here on FR, it is enough that his actions show an astonishing lack of good judgment and moral fiber. If his own wife can't trust him, how and why should we?
Some good-hearted Democrats will understand this, but most of them are as devoid of decency and trustworthiness as Clinton himself.
With these people, remind them that it most certainly IS our business when a politician exposes himself to blackmail.
Imagine the consequences if the French or Israeli or Chinese intelligence services had got wind of Monica before it was common knowledge. They'd have had Slick Willie dancing like a puppet on a string.
With his history of tomcatting, Bill Clinton couldn't get a high enough security clearance to be a janitor's apprentice in the CIA building.
Even this is not enough for some of the far Left who don't care a fig for national security. For them, there is always the sexual-harrassment card to play. Reasonable people would not care about the sex per se, if Monica gave consent.
However, extreme left wing feminists are not reasonable people. Many of them consider any sexual contact between a powerful man and a female underling to be sexual harrassment, due to an imbalance of power that makes consent by the woman suspect and invalid even if it is seemingly freely given.
Remind your friend that a number of feminists (Gloria Allred and Susan Brownmiller, among others) did in fact come out for Clinton's impeachment, even if most of them shamefully held their tongues in gratitude for Clinton's support of baby-killing.
-ccm
LOL - if the election were in six months, maybe he could keep his pants zipped for that long (after all, he is 60 years old). But for two years?
Hilarious! and don't drink milk while reading!
My friend still stands her ground defending him even tho she has never been Divorced or had an affair, is a Devout Catholic and her son is a Priest.
We don't talk politics much anymore! LOL.
sw
Gee Ann, what about all those lives he taken through his support of abortion?
I don't know. She should do her brother a favor though and loan him her dentures before he makes TV appearances.
Shared dentures! The ultimate togetherness.
He's smiling at me with my own teeth - Fred Allen
haha, does that make Crissy a male lesbian?
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