Posted on 05/31/2008 5:55:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
From the beginning, it was Hillary who took charge. 'Look,' she told the future President of the United States in a wood-panelled reading room at the Yale Law School library, 'if you're going to keep staring at me, and I'm going to keep staring back, we should at least introduce ourselves. I'm Hillary Rodham.'
The year was 1970, and Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham had just embarked on a lifetime of cinematic personal and public highs and lows. As she did that flirty afternoon in New Haven, Connecticut, Hillary played a dominant role, one greater than many Clinton watchers ever realised. With her discipline and determination and his almost supernatural charm, they made for a seemingly unconquerable couple - their marriage vows as resistant to scandal as their power was to political enemies.
But now, in the closing days of the 2008 Democratic presidential race, the Clintons' luck is running out. Blindsided by Obamamania, Hillary is almost certain to concede defeat in the weeks to come, abandoning her dream of a restoration, of returning to a White House the Clintons clearly assumed would be theirs again some day.
Indeed, the long-reigning royals of the Democratic Party must contemplate their greatest defeat with disbelief. Their lifetime in politics has often been an absurd high-wire act, a constant defiance of natural political gravity. Time and again they seemed beaten, broken, shamed - and each time they bounced back stronger than before. The question now, in the twilight of Hillary's campaign, is whether they can mount one last comeback, or whether the curtain has fallen at last on the Clinton era.
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Help me, I am not good with dates: was Bush a year ahead of them in Yale or behind them? Did their paths ever cross? I heard Lanny Davis was a fraternity brother of President Bush at Yale./Just Asking - seoul62.......
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In her case even if she sung it wouldn’t be over.
You’ve got it. These two live for this. They are two self-absorbed, controlling, power hungry partners in crime. They certainly don’t live to enjoy each other. Neither will ever retire. They have to have politics and power in their pathetic lives. Even their relationship with Chelsea revolves around grooming her for more of the same. And she is more of the same.
A conservative magazine reported new tales of Bill's sexual adventures in Arkansas, including the claim by a former state employee named Paula Jones that Bill had invited her to a hotel room in 1991 and exposed himself, asking for sex.
For the record, the mag was the American Spectator, and Troopergate did not include a claim by a "former state employee named Paula Jones." It included a claim by a state trooper that Clinton had sex with a woman named Paula in a hotel room.
When Paula head of the claim she basically said "hey, I'm that Paula. We didn't have sex. He had this state trooper bring me to this hotel meeting room and then he waved his wing-wang at me".
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