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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
Posted on 08/08/2007 8:15:12 AM PDT by 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
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2008electionbias; adultery; billygraham; clinton; dnctalkingpoints; elmergantry; graham; jimmyswaggertagrees; timelieswarner
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"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!!!!!
To: Bladerunnuh
Except Bill worships something other than God and that is power.
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:17:46 AM PDT
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: yldstrk
Really. Who are they praying to? Molech??!
To: Bladerunnuh
Yeah, Bill, start with Jimmy Swaggart and work backwards.
To: Bladerunnuh
God’s gifts are often abused.
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:19:17 AM PDT
by
JimRed
("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW!)
To: Bladerunnuh
Shades of “Elmer Gantry”.
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:19:18 AM PDT
by
ladtx
("You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." Will Rogers)
To: Bladerunnuh
Rev. Graham must have had the Devil in him at that moment. It happens to the best of us.
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:19:45 AM PDT
by
netmilsmom
(To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time .)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Maybe Billy meant- “tele-evangelist”
To: Bladerunnuh
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.
To: Bladerunnuh
I’m not surprised that a preacher would say nice things.
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:20:53 AM PDT
by
linn37
(Phlebotomists need love too.)
To: ladtx
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:21:52 AM PDT
by
ladtx
("You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks." Will Rogers)
To: reagan_fanatic
Hillary is going to have to dye her hair--
To: Bladerunnuh
We all know how Bill “ministers” to young women....
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:23:24 AM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
("I mean, he's gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week." - Romney on B. Hussein Obama)
To: yldstrk
And how is this a handicap to being an evangelist?
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:24:18 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(The Simpons already did it!)
To: Bladerunnuh
Well Bill is qualified for laying on of hands..
To: Bladerunnuh
Is that picture from a Sat. Night Live skit?
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:25:54 AM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: vietvet67
He’s a healer as well. He’ll tell you to put some ice on that.
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:26:06 AM PDT
by
Mrs_Stokke
(Turn-of-the-century FReeper.)
To: Mrs_Stokke
To: TigersEye
lmaoooooooo Can you imagine that?
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posted on
08/08/2007 8:28:28 AM PDT
by
pandoraou812
( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
To: 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
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."
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