Posted on 09/26/2008 9:48:48 AM PDT by george76
In a week when a great financial crisis came to a head and the presidential campaign reached a kind of warp-speed intensity, the man who seemed most likely to be there when you turned on a television was not the president or the treasury secretary or the candidates. It was Bill Clinton.
As usual, he had a lot to say. What was unusual was the stir he made for things he did not say.
Mr. Clinton has repeatedly described Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, as honest and trustworthy... Mr. Clinton has missed few opportunities, while allowing that he disagrees politically with Mr. McCain, of Arizona, to say how much he likes the senator and to praise him for his support of Mr. Clinton’s efforts as president to normalize relations with Vietnam and intervene in Bosnia.
Mr. Clinton also went out of his way to praise Mr. McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska. “I come from Arkansas,” he told reporters, “I get why she’s hot out there.”
As comfortable as Mr. Clinton is in saying, “I like John McCain,” and “I like Sarah Palin,” no one seems to have heard him say the same for Mr. Obama. Instead, when speaking of Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee, Mr. Clinton has assumed a professorial stance that sometimes drifts toward emotional aloofness and disregard.
“Is it me, or he didn’t want to say the name ‘Barack Obama’?” the comedian Chris Rock asked with barely contained anger when he appeared Monday night on “Late Show With David Letterman” immediately after Mr. Letterman’s 15-minute interview with Mr. Clinton.
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Clinton wants McCain to win so that Hillary can run against Palin in 4 years
I think Hillary’s between a rock and hard spot. She does not want to run agains Palin but that may be her only shot. If MCCain wins, and I waa Sarah, I’d have more body guards and food testers around me that Saddam Hussein.
The MSM is going to turn Bubba into a NONPERSON
Former president Bill “Horndog” Clinton! Playing “Hambone” with WH spoons! Tonight on Larry King!
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