Billy Graham: Hillary's Solace (Bill should "become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts")

Time/CNN ^ | 8-8-07 | Mancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy

[Bladerunnuh]

Both Bill and Hillary Clinton were sitting with him on stage in Flushing Meadows when Graham greeted them as his "wonderful friends of many years." "I told him," Graham said of President Clinton, "when he left the presidency, he should become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts." Graham paused, and added with a smile, "And he could [let] his wife run the country."

That remark caused such a furor in some quarters that Graham's evangelist son Franklin had to explain that it was meant as a joke.

But Graham had praised and defended both Clintons before. And in a new interview, Hillary

[Bladerunnuh]

"I told him," Graham said of President Clinton, "when he left the presidency, he should become an evangelist, because he had all the gifts."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHHAAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[yldstrk]

Except Bill worships something other than God and that is power.

[Bladerunnuh]

Really. Who are they praying to? Molech??!

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yeah, Bill, start with Jimmy Swaggart and work backwards.

[JimRed]

God’s gifts are often abused.

[ladtx]

Shades of “Elmer Gantry”.

[netmilsmom]

Rev. Graham must have had the Devil in him at that moment. It happens to the best of us.

[Bladerunnuh]

Maybe Billy meant- “tele-evangelist”

[reagan_fanatic]

I love and respect Billy Graham immensely, but for the life of me I cannot understand his chumminess with two examples of the worst that humanity has to offer.

[linn37]

I’m not surprised that a preacher would say nice things.

[ladtx]

[Bladerunnuh]

Hillary is going to have to dye her hair--

[NeoCaveman]

We all know how Bill “ministers” to young women....

[Oztrich Boy]

And how is this a handicap to being an evangelist?

[vietvet67]

Well Bill is qualified for laying on of hands..

[Red_Devil 232]

Is that picture from a Sat. Night Live skit?

[Mrs_Stokke]

He’s a healer as well. He’ll tell you to put some ice on that.

[vietvet67]

lol

[pandoraou812]

lmaoooooooo Can you imagine that?

[Proverbs 3-5]

I love and respect Billy Graham immensely, but for the life of me I cannot understand his chumminess with two examples of the worst that humanity has to offer

I have to assume it's because Billy Graham loves people. Didn't Will Rogers say "I never met a man I didn't like"?

The article also said this:

...The book makes clear that Clinton is not the first candidate to have a relationship with Graham amid the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign. Dwight Eisenhower asked Graham to assist with speeches in the 1952 race (Graham declined). Lyndon Johnson invited him to spend the weekend at the White House before the 1964 election because aides were hearing warnings that he might come out for Goldwater. Nixon recruited him to carry a secret message to Johnson during the 1968 campaign; Gerald Ford sought his advice in 1976 when he faced a born-again Southern Baptist challenger in Jimmy Carter. On the weekend before the 2000 election, amidst roiling charges about a buried drunk driving citation, Graham appeared at George W. Bush's side after a private breakfast together — in the soon to be contested state of Florida — and said, "I believe in the integrity of this man. I've known him as a boy. I've known him as a young man. And we're very proud of him."