Bill comes to Hillary's defense, insists she's not 'manly'

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Insisting his wife is not "manly," former President Bill Clinton defended Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday against a rival Democrat's charge that she tends to "behave as a man."

"I don't think she's trying to be a man," Bill Clinton said on ABC's Good Morning America. "I don't think it's inconsistent with being a woman that you can also be knowledgeable on military and security affairs and be strong when the occasion demands it.

"I don't consider that being manly," he added. "I consider that being a leader."

The former president was responding to remarks by Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who is challenging Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. In a backhanded compliment, Elizabeth Edwards commiserated with Hillary Clinton's desire to appear as masculine as powerful men.

"You want to reassure them you're as good as a man and sometimes you feel you have to behave as a man and not talk about women's issues," she told Salon, the liberal online magazine. "I'm sympathetic - she wants to be commander in chief. But she's just not as vocal a women's advocate as I want to see. John is."

No wonder their marriage has been so blissful.

Hitlery is ALL woman and the cigar chaser would never, ever consider being unfaithful to the woman he loves.

I'm really put off by the remarks made by many of the posters to this thread. Name calling and cheap insinuations will only serve to marginalize Free Republic. Kindly confine your comments to the issue at hand: Whether or not Hillary Clinton is worthy to serve as Commander in Chief. Elizabeth Edwards was saying that Hillary should pay more attention to women's issues instead of the war and the military.

Making libelous statements about Hillary's sexual proclivities only serves to bring the whole forum down to the level of moveon.org. We'll never be considered a serious medium until members learn to post responsibly.

I wonder when the MSM is going to investigate Hillary’s ‘channeling Eleanor Roosevelt’. She talks with the dead. She says Eleanor talked to her. Does anyone out there see this as a problem in reality perceptions for her to become the leader of this country? This is evidence of serious altered state of consiousness. She told us and was serious. The MSM got after Mrs. Reagan about astrology, but not Hillary and her necromancy. When are real, hard questions going to be asked of Hillary. The woman wants to be President of the United States. This isn’t a run for High School Student President. When is someone serious going to ask about Broderick, Wiley, Lewenski, and the rest and ask why she feels she needs to say nothing about it when women are accosted, raped, attempted sodomiezed, and generally groped by the person she claims is the closest to her in this world? Why would any woman vote for her? Why does she believe she is the best qualified to command the armed services? When are real questions going to be asked?

From Rush:

RUSH: Well, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement when your husband says, "I don't think she's trying to be a man." By the way, you know, Hillary, when she spoke on the floor of the Senate during that all night blabber fest, the slumber party, she spoke at 4:10 in the morning. It was the first time that she said something at 4:10 in the morning other than, "Where the hell have you been?" (snip)

continued...

RUSH: I was just sitting here during the break, and I was thinking about some of these comments that that Bill Clinton made regarding Hillary. He said (impression), "I can't find anybody out there in elected office done more for women and children and families than Hillary Clinton has," and I kind of let that go. It's just boilerplate. I hear all this stuff. I actually got thinking, "What has she done for women?" Dawn, you're a woman. What has Hillary Clinton done for women? Dawn can't think of anything. They make these claims, and of course it was Diane Sawyer fawns. "Oh, if only me!" Why in the world do they not get challenged? What has she done for women? Okay, so she did the Beijing conference, whoop-de-do! What happened with the Beijing conference? What has she done for women? They make these claims, they throw these things out. It's just like this number of uninsured. You know, 40 million, 42 million, nine million -- who says? How do we really know? We just accept all this stuff as it gets thrown out there. Some say she's "a role model for women." That's what she's done for women? She's the smartest woman in the world? What has she done for women that other elected leaders who are male who have good policies have done against women?

See, that's another thing. That's another thing. Elizabeth Edwards started all this by saying she not sensitive enough to women's issues. What the hell are "women's issues," on a national basis? Throw out abortion. What else is there? Child care, early prenatal care, uh, nanny care? She "raised consciousness"? About what? Pantsuits? Oh, she raised consciousness about infidelity. Well, okay. If you want to say she did something for women, she stood by her man, and she stood by her man. Other women are to take that as a lesson, and learn from it -- and you, too, could someday be a candidate for president.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.