Hillary says Bill could be 'first mate'

The Times of India ^ | July 4, 2003 | RASHMEE Z AHMED

[HAL9000]

LONDON: Any man lucky enough to get married to America's future first female president could be designated "first mate" Hillary Clinton has said, in what is being seen as a likely and memorable job description for Bill Clinton, come 2008.

But the aspirational words, casually tossed off here and set to reverberate around the world, may be only the second of Hillary's most newsworthy achievements as she plugs her newly-published, bestselling memoirs in the UK .

She has already outsigned former rival Monica Lewinsky in the space of just a few hours in London , by autographing more books for more adoring fans to buy and keep.

Four years ago, Lewinsky set something of a London book-signing record with 'Monica's Story', her juicy revelations on the Oval Office trysts. Signing an average of eight books per minute at Harrods, the venerable, posh London store, Bill Clinton's former playmate was forced to retire in tears.

But the former White House intern has been put in the shade by the admirably-composed, networked and plugged-in former first lady, who has been vowing the UK and promising to sign 700 books in 90 minutes.

Hillary's memoirs, Living History , have already set a record as the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever, with Britain accounting for its second-biggest sales after the US .  

Her UK triumphs come even as she made an exaggerated plea for Bill and herself to "reclaim the zone of privacy".

On Thursday, fans in central London queued for up to five hours outside a leading bookstore, simply for the pleasure of seeing "a future US president".

Hillary's British successes come as the Clinton team works its way all this week into ecstatic column inches across the British press. Just days ago, the former president, partnered British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela at a landmark London dinner marking the centenary of the Rhodes scholarships. As his wife recounts in her memoirs, Bill, a former Rhodes Scholar himself, left Oxford without a degree, only to return to the US looking like a Viking.

On Friday, Hillary took to the British airwaves to relive her "pain" and sorrow at Bill's semi-romance with Lewinsky, recalling how she underwent a period of not speaking to him.

All that ended, however, she recounted, when she helped Bill write an important speech, as always.

[Sabertooth]

[Sabertooth]

[Gritty]

The Queen ain't that old and she might go another thirty years if she's anything like her mother.

One could have said the same thing about Vince Foster. If Her Heinous puts her mind to it, anything becomes possible!

[Dana113]

"On Friday, Hillary took to the British airwaves to relive her "pain" and sorrow at Bill's semi-romance with Lewinsky, recalling how she underwent a period of not speaking to him. "

When will these people ever go away? Do we have to constantly be reminded of the sordid, trashy personal lives of the Clintons? Will it ever end?

[Donna Lee Nardo]

My thoughts and hopes and dreams exactly. Whatever it takes.

[The_Pickle]

Dang! You beat me to the "Gilligan" reference. :(

[sfvgt]

first? mate.........I thought Janet Reno was her first mate.......

[Loyal Buckeye]

Who gives a rat's ass what either of them say?

[The Westerner]

Perhaps they're staying away from the "homeland" because of terrorism? They're in the know, you know.

[Enterprise]

I think Bill Clinton would be a great First Mate - on a garbage scow!

[The Great RJ]

I think Capt."Black Heart" Hillary will have her "first mate" walking the plank long before her White House run.

[Let's Roll]

"First mate. Fair enough. Mating is his hobby..."

Yeah, but wouldn't he actually have to "mate" with his spouse after she was inaugurated? That ain't gonna happen.

[Brilliant]

First mate? I guess she thinks he's going to marry Howard Dean.

[Dionysius]

This is more frightening than "Omen".

The spawn must be stopped!

[ex-Texan]

Hillary has fallen on Amazon.com's Best Seller List. Leading the group is the new Harry Potter book and Ann Coulter's well research non fiction book Treason. Hillary is number 9. Reminds me of the Beetle song in the early 1970's where there is strange repeated chanting of "Number 9" over and over.

[You Dirty Rats]

Shrillary's FIRST mate was some hippie chick at college.

[dagnabbit]

Someone (whom I consider reliable) told me about 4 years ago that HRC, while on an overseas goodwill trip as First Lady, approached a young "good-looking Asian-American" male Embassy officer and invited him to her hotel room. The guy did not take HRC up on the offer.

I wish he had and wrote a book about it.

[optimistically_conservative]

I think Capt."Black Heart" Hillary will have her "first mate" walking the plank long before her White House run.

She would have to. It would be way too easy for the opposition to use "Do you really want 4 more years of White House Blue Dress sex scandals? Only now he's first mate with even more time to not engange in sex relations?"

[hunter112]

Who gives a rat's ass what either of them say?

I'm only glad that when they open their yaps, it sucks the oxygen away from the nine Rat candidates. I'm waiting for one of the nine to start visibly distancing themselves from the Clintoons, just as a way of reversing the atmospheric pressure.

[jd777]

First lady is replaced with "first mate"? That sounds horrible. Why wouldn't it be "first husband" or "first man" or "First Gentleman "( the freepers would love calling bill that). What's with this first mate, stuff? Sounds like something form the navy. Or maybe national geographic or the zoo. "the tiger and his mate"