..."quipping that the former president should become an evangelist and allow "his wife to run the country."
I am assuming he means that she should be president.The president does not "run the country".At best,he runs the executive branch of the government.Hardly the same thing.But when taken with his remark that Clinton should become an evangelist,the whole thing begins to smack of sarcasm.
Billy also publicly advised his close friend LBJ in 1968 or 1969 to become an evangelist. LBJ instead just retired to his ranch and turnd even more liberal in retirement.
The idea of the President "running the country" began, I assume, with popular NY Democrat FDR. Or was it later?