Posted on 06/03/2008 4:35:28 PM PDT by Hadean
NEW YORK: In an embarrassment to presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s despondent campaign, an article has claimed that the aides of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, believe his 2004 heart surgery fundamentally altered his state of mind and that he is constantly in rage.
The article to be published in Vanity Fair, and already posted on the magazine’s website also questions some of Clinton’s business dealings and behaviour since leaving the White House.
“Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton’s postWhite House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive ) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife’s campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing , scandal-tinged posse,” the article said.
Some, it said, point to Clinton’s medical traumas; others blame sheer selfishness, and the absence of anyone who can say “no,” it added. It also asserts that several of his aides were concerned about reports of his inappropriate behaviour during his travels and one of them unsuccessfully attempted to intervene, believing he was “apparently seeing a lot of women on the road.”
The Clinton campaign immediately hit back, saying the theory was flatly rejected as “false” by his doctors who say he is in excellent health and point to his vigorous schedule as evidence of his exceptional recovery.
Bill Clinton also lashed out at journalist Todd Purdum, who wrote the article, for bringing negative attention to his wife’s candidature campaign, calling him a “sleazy” , “slimy” and “dishonest” reporter, Huffington Post said Purdum, a former White House reporter for the New York Times and the husband of former White House Press Secretary admitted he had no evidence but was reporting what the former and current aides of Clinton are saying.
Besides, the theory that the heart surgery had altered his behaviour was based on a doctor who had not seen Clinton.
The editor, who infuriated the Clinton campaign with the explosive article strongly defended his reporting in an interview to CNN.
He stood by his article’s most controversial assertions including charges that aides to the former president believe his 2004 heart surgery altered his state of mind and that some of them grew concerned with rumours Bill Clinton had been “seeing a lot of women on the road.” But he repeatedly said he was not insinuating that Clinton had been involved in inappropriate behaviour but rather reporting what aides had become concerned with.
There is an earlier thread.
No, he was always an ass.
Now they have been forced to see it and want to give an excuse why they didn’t before.
“..unsuccessfully attempted to intervene, believing he was “apparently seeing a lot of women on the road.”...”
Where are the paparazzi when you need them?
Typical Clintonesque cover story to explain bad behavior.
I’d like to read that story but I’m too lazy to search.
The P*ssy Posse?
He has always flown off the handle. And what’s Hillary’s ashtray throwing excuse?
No. He just came out of the closet to show his true colors - slimeball criminal.
He could take a big fat lesson on how to be presidential as an ex-president by Bush 41.
Highly possible. I've had open heart surgery - twice - and I see a lot of women on the road. Usually they are on a cell phone and headed right for me.
Almost to a word, tHat was precisely what went through my mind when I read this.
How is he any different from before, except that now the press is after him instead of covering for him?
You are %100 correct.
What he needed was a castration....
How about some kool-aid, president obama?
Only the MSM have previously refused to see him as he is. Now that they have a new boyfriend, they are dumping all over Bill.
Before the surgery he's a pompous, lecherous, undisciplined, narcissist.
After the surgery.....he's a pompous, lecherous, undisciplined, narcissist.
What does this mean?
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