Leading Democrats To Bill Clinton: Pipe Down

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  • Posted By: independentgal @ 01/24/2008 1:37:32 PM

    How can the American public even presume to support the wife of an ex-president who went through impeachment. If the husband lies, the wife lies right along with him, no pun intended. I don't care how liberated we are as a society, if it's okay for husband Bill to lie to the highest court in the land as well as the entire world, what makes you think she won't do the same? She may not sleep around, but can she be trusted? A woman who knows her husband is stealing or abusing her children and does nothing about it is just as guilty as he is. Please wake up America. DON'T VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON!!!

  • Posted By: jalinney @ 01/24/2008 1:24:55 PM

    I used to depend on Alter to give the straight scoop; he hates the Clintons and cannot be unbiased. Time for Alter to PIPE DOWN.

  • Posted By: Meri @ 01/24/2008 1:17:10 PM

    I'm sure Jonathan Alter is out picking a Valentine's Day card ror Obama. This adoration and canonization of Obama is not playing well among women voters, who reacted to media portrayals of Hillary as a shill and Obama as Jesus Christ. I'm from Illinois and on important votes for women, children, and families he voted PRESENT more than 100 times, which means HE DIDN"T TAKE A STAND. A black male beating a woman out of a job that she is far more qualified for is NOT CHANGE. It's just more of the same old CRAP!

    Alter is turning more people off by misquoting and misjudging Bill Clinton. Alter is not in a position to underestimate anyone after his prediction that Hillary would lose in NH. He can go back to writing Obama's press releases, which is about all Newsweek has been doing for moths anyway.

  • Posted By: sbuxman @ 01/24/2008 1:13:13 PM

    The reality that one of the two is black and the other is Caucasian makes race an issue without it being raised by either. That someone in the Obama camp would attempt to distort a Clinton remark into a swipe at MLK is a sorry attempt to bait Clinton into stooping to the same depths to sway the masses. Fortunately, she's resisted, cinching the answer to the question of who's smarter!

    Hey, if not-so-deftly playing the race card could get O.J. off scott-free for murdering two people in cold blood, why shouldn't B.O. try it, too? Let him get ALL the black delegates...too bad it won't be enough.

    Time to get back to helping Simpson find those drug lords.

  • Posted By: sbuxman @ 01/24/2008 1:12:37 PM

    The reality that one of the two is black and the other is Caucasian makes race an issue without it being raised by either. That someone in the Obama camp would attempt to distort a Clinton remark into a swipe at MLK is a sorry attempt to bait Clinton into stooping to the same depths to sway the masses. Fortunately, she's resisted, cinching the answer to the question of who's smarter!

    Hey, if not-so-deftly playing the race card could get O.J. off scott-free for murdering two people in cold blood, why shouldn't B.O. try it, too? Let him get ALL the black delegates...too bad it won't be enough.

    Time to get back to helping Simpson find those drug lords.

  • Posted By: roxwashington @ 01/24/2008 1:12:08 PM

    I sincerely believe that Clinton should not win. It is obvious that the Clinton's are having such negative comments on Obama's behalf, knowing that they have not as of yet disclosed what their financials looks like...I will defenitely vote for Obama, he has showed 100% to be worhty of a president.

  • Posted By: Meri @ 01/24/2008 1:09:00 PM

    WHOA MALE CHAUVINISTS. Your good friend and mentor, Jonathan Alter is the one that needs to CALM DOWN. He's been putting words in Bill's mouth for weeks about how he was going to stump for Obama if Hillary didn't get the nomination. BS!!! He is so biased and sexist. He was the one that right before the NH about how Hillary wouldn't win and that Bill was thinking this and that LIKE BILL WAS HIS GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND WHEN HE"S NOT. He was wiling to bet me that Bill would stump for Obama if Hillary lost before she won in NH, which she wasn't SUPPOSED to do. Oh Alter, about that BET????

  • Posted By: captureasmile @ 01/24/2008 1:08:12 PM

    Thank you President Clinton for being willing to lead our country again. We need your team "Clinton" to bring peace to our country. I voted for you once and I will vote for you again. Hurry, before All of America is left homeless with homeland security.

    Your two for one sale is quite a bargain! No one can compete with your offer. If anyone doesn't agree, "YOU ARE A FOOL."

  • Posted By: smn77 @ 01/24/2008 11:14:29 AM

    This is from the perspective of an Edwards supporter:

    Bill Clinton has every right to support and defend his wife. He is still a citizen, and is free to speak his mind, and to engage in political advocacy. He only started speaking up in reaction to the atrocious bias against Senator Clinton from the media and the Dem establishment (yeah, I know, we all thought the Clintons WERE the Dem establishment). This same bias has led to the virtual blackout of Senator Edwards??? campaign.

    The anointing of Senator Obama has disgusted a great number of us.

    • Posted By: rr1952 @ 01/24/2008 1:07:56 PM

      During his Presidency, Bill sat back while Republicans chewed Hillary up and spit her out. It's high time he has come to her defense. Too bad he has to defend her against other Democrats. Do we all have to tiptoe around Obama just because Oprah says so?

  • Posted By: piinalu @ 01/24/2008 12:48:52 PM

    I think I just made up mind... I'm voting for Obama. Nice job Bubba...

  • Posted By: piinalu @ 01/24/2008 12:48:30 PM

    I think I just made up mind... I'm voting for Obama. Nice job Bubba...

  • Posted By: Aware! @ 01/24/2008 2:11:49 AM

    Bill Clinton is a voice of reason in this time of media induced paranoia. Anyone with an ounce of common sense and fairness would have to admit that Hillary has had months of negative scrutiny while Obama enjoyed a pass. It is time for him to face like scrutiny. Who is this guy, and why should anyone consider him for president of the USA? His rhetoric is so generalized it reminds me of his vote of present. No accountability necessary if you don't say anything! I would be extremely uncomfortable to have him in the White House. Colin Powell would have been a legitimate choice for the first Black President but not this arrogant novice. Bill and Hillary have weathered the storm and earned their place and our respect. Obama hasn't earned anything.

    Keep telling it like it is Bill Clinton.

    • Posted By: Joanne in Indy @ 01/24/2008 12:22:50 PM

      At one time Bill Clinton had my respect, I voted for that jerk... but all his sleazy antics kinda killed that. However you want to spin it, his little hissy fits are not worthy of a former president. He thinks his wife is entitled to the presidency, which certainly is his right, but at what cost? His antics are turning a lot of people off and that could hurt if Hillary does get the nomination. There will be a lot of Dems who will either stay home or vote Republican in the fall. I certainly will be one of them.

    • Posted By: yokingboot @ 01/24/2008 10:23:33 AM

      One more idoit comment about Bill clinton (draft dodger, felon), hase you forgotten the past?

  • Posted By: cwroberson @ 01/24/2008 12:14:39 PM

    "It's worth it to tarnish himself a bit now to win the presidency." This, unfortunately defines the Clintons. I'd rather have someone who won't "tarnish himself" and I hope that is Obama.

  • Posted By: firestorm @ 01/24/2008 11:52:22 AM

    When Hillary and Bill destroy Obama with their sly but obvious attempt to play the race card out there and benefit from the gender card, they understand when Obama supporters stay home in droves in NOvember. Then where is the Victory? Senator Kennedy needs to stand up. He is the real soul of the party. The Clintons are a shameless disgrace.

  • Posted By: Becky M @ 01/24/2008 8:55:35 AM

    Go to www.snopes.com and look up the muslim story and quit spreading ignorance. If you are not going to educate yourself on the facts, then don't vote and don't post on message boards. The drug thing was 20 years ago. Go to his site and look up his track record as a state Senator and a U. S. Senator and the fact that he is a Christian. It scares me that the future of the country lies in the hands of ignorant people who believe the most dramatic thing they read.

    • Posted By: yokingboot @ 01/24/2008 10:21:30 AM

      I find your lack of research very boring and respresentive of the ignorance that you your self mention, please do investigate more througthly Bill Clintons (the draft dodger, felon) background from the eraly 1960's.

  • Posted By: Agi08 @ 01/24/2008 8:48:59 AM

    I find Senator Obama too cocky for the post.

  • Posted By: northpeter @ 01/24/2008 3:43:48 AM

    I love reading comments like those posted by carl2008 below! Does he think most of the same things couldn't be said of the ambitions of the dynastic Bushes?! There's not much at this moment that could distract me from the mess we've gotten into during the reign of Bush fils. Bad financial decisions and the useless, senseless invasion of Iraq are current, but seeing Bill Clinton express his anger on the campaign trail takes me back to the days of Kenneth Starr's expensive inquisition and all the incredibly destructive tactics of his Republican political opponents. It is for me, also a lead-in to thoughts on the hijacking of the presidency in 2000. I for one can barely wait until after the August conventions. If Billary takes on the Republicans, little Obama will seem to have been an hors d'oeuvre. in that regard, Carl2008, indeed let's "look forward and not backward"...

  • Posted By: kjb79 @ 01/22/2008 2:34:04 PM

    I'm going to stick up for Bill Clinton. Mainly, because no other man has ever been in this postion in all of American history. When reporters interview him, they try to sneakily get him to support Obama. They ask, "wouldn't it be great to elect a black president?" What the hell is the man supposed to say? No one is asking Michelle Obama, "Wouldn't it be great to elect a female?" The Democratic party wants him to pipe down, because they want him to support whoever gets the nomination. But obviously, his loyalties are to his wife as they should be for crying out loud. I'm sorry Edwards and Obama are not going to get the support of one of the greatest democratic presidents in modern history, but that's the end of it. Accept it and respect it.

    • Posted By: Aware! @ 01/24/2008 2:26:48 AM

      I agree!

    • Posted By: yh132 @ 01/23/2008 1:35:45 AM

      Loyal to his wife?? If he had been loyal to his wife while he was President, Gore would have won in 2000 and we wouldn't have had the Bush/Cheney NIGHTMARE for the past several years.

    • Posted By: chatmant @ 01/22/2008 5:18:37 PM

      Loyalties! Wife! Good one, good one. This place is pure comedy.

    • Posted By: Carthage @ 01/22/2008 4:15:16 PM

      LOL!!! - "his loyalties to his wife"?!?! This is someone who distracted and divided our country for years, forgetting exactly that - leading to a fired-up GOP that gave us Bush!

  • Posted By: public4 @ 01/22/2008 3:51:28 PM

    Just last week the New York Times falsely accused Hillary of implying that Martin Luther King 'needed a white man's help." Hillary never said that. But now Obama needs Ted Kennedy's help to protect him from Bill Clinton. Do I have to say it? Bill treats Obama like a man. Kennedy treats Obama like a damsel in distress. It says a lot about Obama that he accepts this patronizing 'help' from the party. When has the party ever told one campaign to take it easy on the other.

    • Posted By: Aware! @ 01/24/2008 2:25:28 AM

      Good comment1 :)

    • Posted By: Carthage @ 01/22/2008 4:08:45 PM

      It's not Obama that needs Kennedy's protection, it;s the democratic party! Leave it to the dems to hand it to the GOP. With every day this scorched-earth politicing of the Clintons continues, there are going to be more and more dems who will refuse to vote for their current opponent, and more independents turning to the GOP. And without the independents, there is no win in November, esp. if the party nominee will not be able to turn out its own. Shame on you, Clintons, and shame on the party leaders for letting thme damage the party without speaking up!

      • Posted By: Joanne in Indy @ 01/22/2008 5:44:56 PM

        I totally agree! There seems to be a sense of entitlement on Bill's part, and he will do anything to get back to the White House. If Hillary gets the nomination, I will be voting Republican. I just hope that Republican is John McCain, otherwise, it's really going to be going into that voting booth...

  • Posted By: bluerthanbluestate1 @ 01/22/2008 7:02:43 PM

    If the press had been fair early on and had scoured Obama to the degree they scoured the other candidates on policy issues, having a strong spokesman doing the media's job of finding facts about Obama would not be role Bill Clinton would need to do. Bill Clinton is just trying to even the playing field. I would think Obama would welcome the chance to set us all straight about his accomplishments. Apparently not.

    • Posted By: Aware! @ 01/24/2008 2:22:07 AM

      You are exactly right!

    • Posted By: Carthage @ 01/22/2008 8:04:23 PM

      Wait a minute... the biggest "pass" any candidate got is Hillary, for voting for a WAR, without reading the 94-page National Intelligence Estimate - a classified doc. Sen. Graham fought so hard to give the Senators access to, while NO ONE of HRC's staff had clearance to do so. I bet she did read the polls that day! Experience? Judgement?

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