If You Love Somebody ...
LEXINGTON, S.C. -- A subdued Bill Clinton got some helpful advice this morning from a voter who weighed in on the contentious battle for the Democratic nomination.
"Stop taking the bait from Obama," said a woman voter, adding that she didn't want to see more bickering. "I know that when he says something she feels like she needs to reply. I think she just needs to say, this is bait, we don't need the bait, we need the issue."
"That's pretty good advice," Clinton said, to laughter. "You know, that's probably good advice for me, too," he added, generating an even louder audience reaction.
Clinton said that he's found that campaigning for her is harder than it campaigning for himself. "When I was running I didn't give a rip what anybody said about me," he said. "It's weird, you know, but you love somebody you think they'd be good, [it's] harder. But I think that's good advice."
The former president made introductory remarks for about 15 minutes -- about half as long as his usual pitch -- and the event wrapped up in just over an hour. Clinton indicated at the outset that he was feeling the effects of a long night; a town hall meeting in Myrtle Beach last night lasted nearly three hours, kicking off after 9 pm and wrapping up with a few hundred hand shakes just before midnight.
"I got home about 1 o'clock," he said. "I stayed three hours answering their questions. So I feel like a little scrambled eggs this morning."
During the event at Gibson Commons, Clinton was also asked about Barack Obama's criticism of HRC for being on the board of Wal-Mart. Clinton defended his wife's time there, saying she helped the mega store take some progressive turns. "When she was asked to go on the board of Wal Mart, they had no women in positions of management, and they had no environmental profile," he said.
He also credited HRC with starting the company's Buy America program, which he claimed helped save union jobs in the state. "Yes she served on the board, and yes I think it was the right thing to do under the circumstances of the time, the 1980s," he said. "And she didn't exactly get rich doing it."
(NBC/NJ's MIKE MEMOLI)
I can tell you that myself, some friends and family have gotten turned off by the Clinton's behaviour to do anything to win and we will not vote for her if she gets the Democratic nomimnee. Their behavior and distortions like at Meet the Press in which Hilalry said: "Sen. Obama's chief strategist accuses me of playing a role in Benazir Bhutto's assassination.'' When in actuality David Axelrod never made such an accusation. He said former Prime Minister Bhutto's death will ''call into issue the judgment'' of ''taking the eye off the ball and making the wrong judgment in going into Iraq.'' and their recent attempt in voter suppresion in Nevada has shown a lot of people another side to them we did not know existed and it does not look pretty. They have divided the paty and it is a deep division. They seem more like Karl-Rove Republicans than Democrats and it is a shame to see their moral demise!
In the future, there will have to be some kind of Campaign Reform: Rules and Regulations from the Perspective Partiese in the way politicians run their campaigns to keep them truthful and from distorting one another's records.
I can tell you that myself, some friends and family have gotten turned off by the Clinton's behaviour to do anything to win and we will not vote for her if she gets the Democratic nomimnee. Their behavior and distortions like at Meet the Press in which Hilalry said: "Sen. Obama's chief strategist accuses me of playing a role in Benazir Bhutto's assassination.'' When in actuality David Axelrod never made such an accusation. He said former Prime Minister Bhutto's death will ''call into issue the judgment'' of ''taking the eye off the ball and making the wrong judgment in going into Iraq.'' and their recent attempt in voter suppresion in Nevada has shown a lot of people another side to them we did not know existed and it does not look pretty. They have divided the paty and it is a deep division. They seem more like Karl-Rove Republicans than Democrats and it is a shame to see their moral demise!
In the future, there will have to be some kind of Campaign Reform: Rules and Regulations from the Perspective Partiese in the way politicians run their campaigns to keep them truthful and from distorting one another's records.
I'm shocked - SHOCKED - to learn that Bill Clinton might be prevaricating. Can you imagine such a thing?
Bill Clinton is a unique combination of political genius, good ole boy and predatory competitor. Unfortunately for the Democrats and the liberals in general, as well as the disadvantaged, he wasn't a philosophically inclined leader. Not in the true, profound sense of the word, philosophical.
FDR, JFK, and LBJ each in their own way cultivated policies based on overarching philosophies that sustained the liberal tradition. Bill, on the other hand pursued what's been called the Third Way. This tack was supposedly a synthesis of both right and left wing views into a moderate blend that's pragmatic and popular. In Bill's hands, however, the Third Way was mostly a capitulation to the right, in terms of both domestic policies and foreign policies. For instance, he implemented the Personal Responsibility Act... that gutted welfare.
At the same time he spearheaded NAFTA, deregulatory initiatives and globalization that severely limited the prospects for middle class upward mobility. He also passively allowed welfare funds, and more, to be shifted towards corporate recipients.
Regarding foreign policy, he caved in to the PNAC, sponsored Opration Desert Fox, bombed Iraq to unseat Saddam (What if he was successful, wouldn't there have been an all-out war?), and he pursued military action in Kosovo without Congressional approval - setting a precedent for W's preemptive war against Saddam.
Yet now, he's criticizing Obama as if he and Hillary didn't have a rather comparatively militaristic, and relatively anti-liberal backgrounds. It's a sham. And in the end, it perpetuates the common understanding by the public at large that they can't trust politicians in particular and government in general.
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