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Davis to Californians: I Feel Your Pain
NewsMax.com ^
| 8/13/03
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 08/13/2003 6:43:14 AM PDT by kattracks
California Governor Gray Davis has apparently taken the political advice of ex-President Bill Clinton to heart - so much so that he's begun to mimic Clinton's lip-biting catch phrase, "I feel your pain" in a desperate bid to survive October's recall vote.
"I feel people's pain because I know this is a tougher economy nationally, not just in California, than when I first came into office in 1999," Davis told a sympathetic Bill Maher on Friday for an interview on HBO's "Real Time."
The Clintonized California Democrat has been consulting the ex-president for months, though it's not known if Clinton actually advised him to use the same slogan that helped him survive the Gennifer Flowers and draft-dodging scandals in 1992.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has, however, publicly compared Davis recall backers to the "vast right wing conspiracy" that succeeding in getting her husband impeached, an historic first for an elected U.S. president.
In an interview on Monday, Gov. Davis' wife Sharon made it clear she was counting on the former first couple to save her husband from political disaster.
"We look forward to having Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton in California because they have been through this Republican attack," she told the Los Angeles Times. "They have experienced it firsthand."
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To: kattracks
Actually it should read ... California ... I represent those who cause you pain
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posted on
08/13/2003 9:24:33 AM PDT
by
clamper1797
(Conservative by nature ... Republican in Spirit ... Patriot by Heart ... and Anti Liberal BY GOD)
To: spokeshave
Your tag line is spot on.
Let's learn how to win!!!!
To: goldstategop
Davis would be better off calling on his OTHER good friend, Gary Condit!!
To: TheSpottedOwl
Yeah, that's what I thought!
Maybe Hillary is still going to try to make a run for the WH in 2004 - in which case she would need CA.
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:03:31 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - "The Greatest Nation on the Face of the Earth")
To: boris
"I made your pain." Spot On, boris!
Gum
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:11:14 PM PDT
by
ChewedGum
( http://king-of-fools.blogspot.com)
To: CyberAnt
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:26:17 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(I need a new tag line)
To: TheSpottedOwl
Thanks for the ping - that was hysterical!!
I can hardly wait to see the look on her face! That's just what we need to use when people try to say what a great person she is.
I loved the statement about her being such "a great wife". If you're a great wife, you don't allow your husband to bed other females. These people are sick!
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posted on
08/13/2003 3:03:55 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
( America - "The Greatest Nation on the Face of the Earth")
To: CyberAnt
You're so welcome! I wanted everyone to see this :)
I hope HLL's friend can provide us with a clip of Hill's happy face slipping, heehee...
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posted on
08/13/2003 7:01:37 PM PDT
by
TheSpottedOwl
(I need a new tag line)
To: ErnBatavia
He SHOULD feel their pain. He helped cause it.
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