Who Is This Article About?

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Check out these opening paragraphs, and guess who's being described.

Looking into [his] eyes is like falling into a swimming pool.

His eyes are deep and blue and comforting and, as person after person will tell you, when his eyes lock onto yours, you feel like you are the only other person in the world.

Margarida Perreira, 48 . . . can stand it no longer.

“Can I give you a kiss?” she asks him.

“Sure you can,” he says.

She hugs him fiercely.

He smiles and thanks her and moves on, his hands in the pockets of his white jeans, his dark ostrich skin boots scuffing along the dirt paths . . .

So, what's your guess? Brad Pitt? Matt Damon? Robert Redford, perhaps? Or might it be fiction -- something from a dime-store bodice-ripper?

Alright, you NewsBusters readers are a smart lot. You've probably deduced that if the answer were a Hollywood star, we wouldn't be writing about it here. OK, then: the answer is Bill Clinton, and the author is the apparently star-struck Roger Simon at Politico.com. The notion behind The long campaign of Bill Clinton is that the former prez just loves campaigning and, um, human contact, and is incredibly good at the art of retail politics. In fairness, there's no doubt that Clinton is a schmoozer supreme. Even so, can anyone imagine a Republican receiving this kind of a fawning profile?

There's one classically Clintonian moment that Simon describes.

“I love your boots!” a woman shouts to him.

He walks over to her. “Ostrich skin,” he says. “I have ostrich skin and crocodile. I have a pair that is both ostrich skin and crocodile. There is this place in Australia that makes boots out of crocodiles and ostriches, but only when they die naturally.”

Smoked the ostrich, but didn't inhale it.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Go ahead, guess. Ping to Today show list.

[steveo]

*urp*

[ArrogantBustard]

ROFPMGO!!!!

[rfp1234]

— his dark ostrich skin boots —

Head in the sand, that’s about right...

[kinoxi]

All your hair, are belong to us...

[nuconvert]

I knew who it was by the first sentence

[rfp1234]

—ROFPMGO!!!!—

Rolling on the Floor Pi**ing My Granny Off???

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I guess it was kinda obvious, but can you imagine that the seemingly serious Simon actually wrote this stuff?

[ArrogantBustard]

close ... but no cigar. Especially not a Clinton Cigar. (Eeewwwww.)

It’s

Rolling On Floor Puking My Guts Out.

[ElkGroveDan]

Margarida Perreira, 48 . . . can stand it no longer.

She's a little old for him isn't she?

[r9etb]

Yes, it sounds like a bodice-ripper ... but this isn’t the first place I’ve read such a description of Clinton’s charisma. Apparently it’s one of those things people don’t believe until it happens to them.

[Califreak]

I think it was rolling on floor puking my guts out...

But I can’t be sure....

[nuconvert]

“but can you imagine that the seemingly serious Simon actually wrote this stuff?”

Sure. What’s worse is that there are people who to this day, still feel this way about him. That’s sick.

[Spunky]

Looking into [his] eyes is like falling into a swimming cess pool.

[Califreak]

I was only going by my reaction.

[mass55th]

"He smiles and thanks her and moves on, his hands in the pockets of his white jeans"

Probably has a hole cut in the pocket of his jeans too.

[Thebaddog]

Some fellow gave Clinton an earful of attitude at the Taste of Chicago some years back and Clinton set the SS and the FBI on him. And if Clinton ever says “Nice tie” to you, he’s not being nice. Get my drift?

[r9etb]

Uh, OK.... No, I don’t get your drift.