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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."

Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:

California Governors Race



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1 posted on 08/13/2003 6:43:14 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
He doesn't come across as even remotely charming. He's gonna lose and all his phony Clinton accent will do is just make the margin of his defeat bigger. People get turned off fast to someone who's desperate to be liked.
2 posted on 08/13/2003 6:45:28 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: kattracks
He doesn't hav the charisma to pull this off.
3 posted on 08/13/2003 6:45:39 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: The Old Hoosier
He thinks being a pretend Bubba will pull in more votes for him in California. Davis is delusional...
4 posted on 08/13/2003 6:46:43 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: kattracks
I feel people's pain..

I highly doubt that.

5 posted on 08/13/2003 6:47:06 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (40 miles inland, California becomes Flyover Country!)
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To: The Old Hoosier
He doesn't hav the charisma to pull this off.

Once he learns to fake sincerity, watch out.

6 posted on 08/13/2003 6:48:06 AM PDT by ProudGOP
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To: kattracks
"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.

Don’t dry clean your dress, Bill. Just in case.

7 posted on 08/13/2003 6:48:31 AM PDT by dead (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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To: kattracks
Memo to Bill & Hillary, Gray & Sharon

YOU ALL ARE A PAIN!

8 posted on 08/13/2003 6:48:48 AM PDT by auboy
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To: kattracks
"I made your pain."
9 posted on 08/13/2003 6:51:05 AM PDT by boris (Education is always painful; pain is always educational.)
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To: kattracks
"I feel people's pain because ..."

Ok, definite sign of panic in the Gray camp.

10 posted on 08/13/2003 6:51:29 AM PDT by Jalapeno
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To: goldstategop
Davis is delusional...

Has been since the '70s

11 posted on 08/13/2003 6:53:27 AM PDT by Prof Engineer (I won't FReep at work, I won't FReep at work, I won't FReep at work, I won't FReep at work)
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To: kattracks
We are witnessing the long overdue destruction of the "democrat/socialist/marxist" party.....

At all levels of their party structure -- are clymers and failures....

It is becoming impossible for them to mask that fact..

Semper Fi

12 posted on 08/13/2003 7:06:34 AM PDT by river rat (War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
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To: kattracks
Hmmm, thought the Clintons had already deserted this sinking ship...
13 posted on 08/13/2003 7:10:06 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I need a new tag line)
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To: ErnBatavia
He CAUSED people's pain.
14 posted on 08/13/2003 7:15:16 AM PDT by anoldafvet
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To: TheSpottedOwl
They have. But Davis feels he can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by what else? - pulling off a Clinton.
15 posted on 08/13/2003 7:17:37 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: kattracks
Californians to Davis: You INFLICT our pain!!!!!!!!!!!
16 posted on 08/13/2003 7:17:56 AM PDT by .cnI redruM ("Magna cum laude, summa cum laude, the radio's too laude." - Johnny Dangerously)
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To: goldstategop
He can try and pull off a Clinton, but the problem is that Gray has the personality of a wet sock. He'll just look even more desperate :)
17 posted on 08/13/2003 7:36:31 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I need a new tag line)
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To: kattracks
I guess ol' doofus forgot that everyone the toon campaigned for in the last election........lost.
18 posted on 08/13/2003 7:55:59 AM PDT by reformed_dem (Do not write below this line.)
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To: reformed_dem
The more he wines and wimpers more votes he looses....what a jerk
19 posted on 08/13/2003 9:10:39 AM PDT by spokeshave (A vote for Tom McClintock, Bill Simon or Peter Ueberroth is a vote for Cruz Bustamante)
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To: kattracks
Davis: "I feel your pain".

Clinton: "I feel your wife".

20 posted on 08/13/2003 9:23:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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