[SuziQ]

I dunno about you, but I'd rather have Bill Clinton talking to a bunch of nobodies in East Timor--all of whom hate his guts--than talking to an ever-fawning press here in the USA.

A big AMEN to that! Do any of you 'I'm never gonna vote for him againers' ever think there may be some method to GW's 'madness'? BTW, did you ever vote for him in the first place?

[rintense]

I just don't agree that someone who has openly questioned the policies of the current adminstration be used as an official representative OF that adminstration- no matter where the location is. And you know Clinton. He'll milk it for all it's worth and STILL remain a thorn in the side of the Bush admin. To me, it's the same as asking Jesse Jackson to go out into the world in an official capactiy-- bad, bad, BAD idea. It will be perceived as a sign of weakness on the behalf of the Bush adminstration, not a brilliant move to shut x42 up. That just isn't the reality we live in.

[techcor]

Yes, I did vote for him.
than talking to an ever-fawning press here in the USA.

Do you think the ever-fawning press isn't going along with him? If there is a big policy statement by Bush and a dumb-a$$ed self-serving speech by Clinton at E. Timor, who do you think the press will flock to? It would have been better to let the press know every time Clinton wants a job and let the press know that the Bush Admin. won't let him have a job because Clinton is immaterial and worthless. That's what Bush should have done. Not turn Clinton into an ambassador (that's the way the fawning press will spin it.)

[tomkat]

BTW, did you ever vote for him in the first place?

not only did i vote for him,
i put my skin on the line for him:
Cheney's house,
USSC,
09/27/01,
09/29/01.
did you ??

this 'appointment' is nonetheless shameful as hell,
no matter how many west wing yuks it might've garnered.

the asshole press corps is gonna be on this like white on rice ...