Posted on 04/21/2007 1:46:30 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton says husband would be ambassador
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 8 minutes ago
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that if she is elected president, she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world, using his skills to repair the nation's tattered image abroad.
"I can't think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?" the Democratic senator from New York asked a crowd jammed into a junior high school gymnasium. "He has said he would do anything I asked him to do. I would put him to work."
Clinton spoke at a town hall-style meeting Saturday where she took questions from about 200 people. When asked what role the former president would play in her administration, she left no doubt it would be an important one.
"I'm very lucky that my husband has been so experienced in all of these areas," said Clinton, who pointed to the diplomatic assignments her husband has carried out since leaving office, such as raising money for tsunami victims.
Although former president Clinton was impeached after an affair with a White House intern, he remains a very popular figure in much of the world and is considered an effective diplomat.
That's precisely what America needs in the wake of a war in Iraq that's left America isolated and hated throughout much of the world, Hillary Clinton said.
"I believe in using former presidents, particularly what my husband has done, to really get people around the world feeling better about our country," she said. "We're going to need that. Right now they're rooting against us and they need to root for us."
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It's idiocy like this that makes me support isolationism. The Clintons care more for the opinions of their Chinese moneymen and Euro-socialist trash than for the American people.
Let’s put it this way...
Black or not...Obama has NO defineable experience that could even come close to making him capable of being the leader of the free world...and the VP is a heartbeat away.
He can give fancy speeches talking about “hope” and “don’t give in to cynicism”...but that isn’t going to help against Al-queda.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070421/ap_on_el_pr/democrats2008_obama
“Obama addresses questions about experience”...
LOL
One thing about his inexperience comes to mind: a lot of people just vote on style, not substance, ergo, Clinton over Bush 41 in 1992. Obama is being treated like a "rock star" (jeez, I hate that term), and has a good chance of "rocking the vote" (I hate that term too ;-) with all of the young skulls full of mush who will be voting for the first time.
And, as much as I hate to think it, if Fred becomes the Republican nominee, he's going to look old and tired next to Obama's youthful exuberance.
Don't get me wrong - I love Fred, and hope to get a chance to vote for him in the primary, and in the general election, but he is showing his age. He's only four or five years older than Mitt Romney, but the difference in appearance is quite telling.
Never a lone gunman when you really need one....
“... do anything ...”
Would he give up his BIMBO’s ..?? NOT LIKELY!!
She’d send him to EU where they would hide his playing around.
roflmao!
All I can ever think of, when he is considered an ‘ambassador’, is that balloon float in a German parade —— showing Clinton with his arms around someone’s boobs. (?Monica?) That is what one friendly nation thought of him when he was the US president?
LOL
I have to think of PJ O’Rourke’s question, when he reviewed “It Takes a Village”. In “Mrs. Clinton’s Very, Very Bad Book” he wrote:
“She can’t be that stupid. Can she?”
LOL
IF...and that is a big IF, Obama gets far enough to run against Fred Thompson...
The ONLY gambit for the RNC is that with this world as volatile as it is right now...we can NOT have a POTUS that has NO experience in Congress (two years in Senate, NOTHING)...and even LESS life experience.
Also....it can be said that with a Muslim family tree..can he be trusted to take care of our ally Israel?
You pair Fred up with someone like Duncan Hunter, who is younger, but has military experience and a son that has served several tours in Iraq...and I just don’t see how a duo of an overweight, old, nasty woman..and a wet behind the ears African-American poss. Muslim, could be realistically be considered.
Our enemies could use him to spread STDs worldwide.
WON’T THESE WRETCHED, EVIL PEOPLE EVER GO AWAY?! ENOUGH ALREADY!
Agreed. I'm throwing up library paste I ate in second grade 53 years ago.
LOL....good one!
If he wouldn’t come back, this would be a reason to vote her into office.
This in itself is reason enough to deprive her of any chance of becoming president!
Is this from Scrappleface?
(expletive deleted)
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