Clinton: Presidents' private lives are fair game to a point

Boston.com ^ | 5-28-03 | Martin Finucane

[Paul Atreides]

BOSTON (AP) Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that a president's private life is a legitimate subject for historians to study, but he decried the scrutiny of his private life he endured during his two terms in the White House.

[Paul Atreides]

But he also said he missed the work and the people. ''It's a good thing we've got the term limits or you'd have had to throw me out,'' he said.

What an jerk.

[Torie]

he decried the scrutiny of his private life he endured during his two terms in the White House

Maybe he was ill suited for the line of work he chose. Just a thought.

[RLK]

When you have a strange women brought into a hotel room by state troopers and stick your penis in her face, it's not your private life. It's also an indication of serious mental instability which should disqualify you for the presidency.

[mombonn]

. . . "sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Get off the stage, dirtball.

[TBall]

"Looking fit in a blue suit and green tie" Probably some sort of national security secret signal for the Chinese.

[Chairman Fred]

"Jerk"?

"Whore" is the correct term.

[mystery-ak]

...lying POS.....that's all I have to say about that!

[Edmund]

Technically, it wasn't in her face. While he faced her directly, it was in fact pointed at her right ear.

[Arpege92]

JFK was his hero? LOL....yes, JFK was democrat but unlike Clinton, he served his country in the military. The only two things Clinton and JFK had in common were adultry and the democratic party.

[Arpege92]

LOL...

[liberalnot]

we should not know that his daughter flunked out of pre-med at stanford but went on to oxford, just because her father was president?

[Political Junkie Too]

So, if a president were to be lavishing his friends with the funds of the Treasury, or stealing national treasures for his own personal decoration, or abusing his powers to aid a few friends, are we not supposed to question it when it happens if it appears suspicious but is done under the guise of "personal time with friends?"

-PJ

[small voice in the wilderness]

Yeah, The Peter Principle comes to mind. Unfortunately, clinton has taken that particular subject onto a different course.

[Gritty]

Mommy, Mommy!

Please make the nasty man go away!

PUULLEEAASSSSSEEEEEEE!!

[republicandiva]

''For a couple of months,'' he quipped, ''I was disoriented when I walked in a room and they didn't play a song anymore.

ROFLMAO - is he serious?

[Cicero]

The Oval Office of the White House is not a private place.

Some people have plausibly argued that clinton LIKED to live dangerously. Why else would he have committed a new felony or raised a new scandal at the rate of roughly once a week for eight years?

Right in the middle of the Lewinsky impeachment scandal he was photographed almost daily staring down some woman's cleavage in the receiving line.

That's not private life, that's public sleaze.

[Paleo Conservative]

When you have a strange women brought into a hotel room by state troopers and stick your penis in her face, it's not your private life. It's also an indication of serious mental instability which should disqualify you for the presidency.

Notice how the DemocRATS have not won the presidency with a known candidate since 1960 and 1964. It seems the only way they win the presidency is with dark horse candidates who have had little national scrutiny till the year they were elected president. Republicans on the other hand have uniformly run candidates who were well known nationally long before they won their party's nomination.

I doubt a future Clintonoid would get the kind of pass by the news media that Clinton got in 1992. There are many more ways for information to get disseminated now than there were just ten years ago. The New York Times and other "elite" leftist news outlets no longer have a stranglehold on information and the power to determine which stories get carried in other newspapers. If the Paula Jones story had broken while Clinton was just a governor running in the presidential primaries, he just might not have gotten the DemocRAT nomination.

[republicandiva]

You might find this amusing...Clinton and Bush (GHW) were both among the dignitaries and pseudolebrities at the Indy 500 this year. The PA announcer stated there were two past presidents in the crowd, proceeded to briefly interview and joke with Bush, then ignored Clinton - never even mentioned his name. HMMM, wonder if they were worried he'd be booed?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I received this in an email today, and thought it was cute enough to share:

This is from a 1995 article from the British satirical magazine Private
Eye. It is the proposed Latin inscription on the wall of Oxford, lauding
Clinton’s achievements:


“Wilhelmus Jeffersonius Airplanus Clintonensis, salutamus venerabilis
Universitatis Oxoniensis. Quondam Rhodus scholasticus et marijuana
non-inhaliensis, et ex Bello Vietnamensis non conscriptione excusatus.
Subsequentis gubernator respublica Arkansensis et perpetrator criminalis
sleazissimus in nomine ‘Aqua Blanca” scandalus, cum tua uxore Hillarius
Roddama Clintesterone. Etiam legoverus multitudinus cum multae bimbones,
Gennifa Flores, Paula Jones, et cetera, et cetera. Satyriasis abnormalis
in modo Presidentius Kennedensis. Tua fama extendit per omne mundo pro
joggendo, juvando ad saxophonum, et non much else. Esperamus quid pro
quo multi richi Americani donabunt muchos dollares ad Universitatem
Oxoniensis.