Posted on 10/05/2007 10:01:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON - Former President Clinton has said his wife wants him to lead efforts to rebuild the United States' tarnished reputation abroad — if she is elected to the White House next year.
The former president made the comments in interviews released Friday in Britain where he was fundraising for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination for next year's presidential election.
Clinton was asked what his public role might be if his wife becomes president, in interviews with The Guardian newspaper and British Broadcasting Corp. television.
He joked to The Guardian that Scottish friends have suggested his title could be "first laddie."
"What Hillary has said is that if she were elected she would ask me, and others — including former Republican presidents — to go out and immediately try to restore America's standing, go out and tell people America was open for business and cooperation again," he was quoted as telling the newspaper.
He said for the first time in his political experience, "ordinary Americans in the heartlands" were concerned about how the world sees the U.S. after years of unilateralism of President Bush's administration on issues such as Iraq, climate change, and nuclear nonproliferation.
"The collective effect of that was to enrage the world at the very moment when we had more world support than we've had in recent memory because of 9/11. It was an unbelievable turnaround," Clinton said.
As an example of how the U.S. can win by working with others, Clinton pointed to the six-nation North Korea arms talks this week, where the country committed to disabling its main nuclear facilities by year-end.
"You can see in the recent success of the North Korean nuclear effort that when America moved from unilateralism to working through, and with, others it works pretty well," he said on the BBC.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, and former US President Bill Clinton smile as they wait for the arrival of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine had a working meeting in the Elysee Palace Friday. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
ROFL, you will still be the First Lady to me. hahaha
Just in time .I just read Sarkozy’s old lady needs some counseling or ministering or taming of some kind .
The world loved us so much under Clinton that they murdered 3000+ of our fellow Americans. Elect them again and we will lose many more.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.— Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
...what massacreing Serbs, giving all our enemies nukes and ****ing everything that moves? Is that his idea of diplomacy?
So the Blowjob King/Serial Abuser of Woman/ and Rapist in Chief will be the one to rebuild our tarnished image abroad?
He should be in Ft. Leavenworth wearing an orange jumpsuit.
And so should his wife.
Just what we need. BJ “Mordecai Jones” Clinton out there straightening things out for us.
This is no news to me . I knew this was a tag team presidency all along. We better ALL vote for the same guy or she’s in .
If Hillary wins, I bet there is a time when they have a big fight in public. If one of them loses it, the other will be quick to follow.
I’ll sit back with a good cognac and watch that over and over...
Never happen . They are WAY too slick to let it happen.
‘restore America’s standing’???
Like to where it was when we were the laughingstock of the world during Billary’s first reign? These people are delusional. Sadly, they have Soros’ money and the MSM megaphone. We have our work cut out for us if we want to get the truth out.
Hillary is already done campaigning for the RAT nomination. She’s now running for the presidency.
Repubs better quit squabbling among themselves and start hammering Hillary..better yet, get others to hammer Hillary.
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Lied to his family. Lied to america and the world. And now, I should care what this self serving sleeze ball says?
The arrogance of the Clintons is disgusting. “Including former Republican Presidents”? You mean the Bushes? The ones you claim of destroying America’s image? America’s image is perfectly fine and we don’t need your help, no thank you.
But not ex-patriates.
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