Posted on 05/29/2010 5:07:19 AM PDT by tobyhill
After Barack Obama won the White House, he and his aides wrestled for weeks over what to do about Bill Clinton if his wife joined the administration. They worried that the irrepressible former president might overshadow Hillary Rodham Clinton, or even Obama himself. That didn't happen. Now, 18 months later, he has become indispensable in a way the new president probably did not anticipate.
Clinton has become the "Michael Clayton" of the Obama White House, a roving, always on-call fixer who lends his political skills to help Obama and the Democrats in tough situations. Clinton is campaigning and raising money in places where Obama is less (or less than) welcome. And, as was revealed Friday, he has been an intermediary on sensitive, off-the-grid conversations with candidates such as Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), whom he tried -- on behalf of the White House -- to talk out of running for the Senate.
One of Clinton's lowest political moments as president was when his party lost both houses of Congress in 1994. Now, with Obama's Democratic majority similarly imperiled, 44 is turning to 42 for help. In a toxic environment where candidates are running away from the establishment, Clinton has swooped in to Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New York and Pennsylvania, and he is expected to make more stops before November's midterm elections.
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Any help greatly appreciated.
There is no way they could deny a crime had been committed, so they are simply creating talking points for the idiots on the left to use in the court of public opinion.
I wouldn’t call them political skills. I would call them more on the order of how to get out of a jam skills.
No, I would say that it was probably the other way around. I can hear Clinton right now. “I’ll do this for you, but first, how about a little favor from you?”
44 joins with 42 to avoid being 86ed!
I did not offer that Man, Mr.Sestak, a bribe on behalf of Obama.
I did not lie, not one time. I have to get back to my ... bribe and sex tour.
As George Costanza once said, “It’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Love the tagline. Did you script it? It is fantastic.
Bill Clinton can now change his name to Chump,wonder if he will send his friends to visit Obama ?.
From Bible study notes.
Here’s another.
Man doesn’t break God’s Law.
God’s Law breaks man.
Well, both are great! I am going to use your tagline along with another favorite I found here on FR that goes “Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the ground in the morning, Satan growls and says” %^$%$^&, he (she’s) awake!” LOVE IT!
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