Bill Clinton: "I think it would be a great thing..."

[XemaSab]

"...if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country... and people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."

Note the use of the CONDITIONAL.

The implication here is that this might not come to pass.

How would such a thing not come to pass? If we had different candidates. How would we have different candidates? If Obama was the nominee.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Ya mean like if BC mentions that even Jesse Jackson won

S.C.?? Ya mean all the other stuff BC said that he shouldn't have?? Yeah, that stuff needs to stay way out of the front and center so the real issues can be focused upon. BC never lost his focus for the real issues unless of course you consider that other thing that got in the way.

[ulysses]

2. wonder if Bill will address what he meant by "all this other stuff".

:shrug:

[XemaSab]

11. I'm curious about that too

:shrug:

[maximusveritas]

3. Yep, I caught that too

He's not simply wishing we could focus on the issues. He's saying it'll only happen if we nominate Hillary because she loves the country and Obama doesn't.

[XemaSab]

5. Just saw your OP making the same point

:thumbsup:

[npincus]

4. playing the Writght card.... without uttering the man's name.

Simply imply Obama can't possibly be a patriot.

[still_one]

6. Bill Clinton should stick with 20 year old interns, that is how much integrity he has

[leftofcool]

7. how nice

[still_one]

8. It wasn't nice what I said at all. It is just that subtly implying that Obama isn't patriotic

or like Hillary implied when she said she and mccain are qualified to be president, but Obama is just a speech, makes me quite angry

If they want to critisize Obama on his "lack of experience", or how he didn't take a position on the Kyle Lieberman amendment, fine, but to imply that he somehow isn't qualified to be president or "isn't patriotic enough", Bill Clinton can just go away, because what this primary has shown me is the true colors of the Clintons

[guruoo]

10. Somebody wants to express their gratitude...

[LordJFT]

15. he expressed that grattitude many times to Hillary

When she talked about the poor middle class people who make over 200k a year in that ss wage cap debate, when she attacked kerry for his comment, when she played the fear card in the 3 a.m. call, when she talked about how it was naive to meet with unfriendly dictators and when she used the states rights argument for why she wouldn't repeal DOMA.

[guruoo]

23. cough cough akkk! ...

(Sorry, I just couldn't help it)

[LordJFT]

24. oh no, one pic of them together! they must be in cohoots!

[guruoo]

25. like a thousand words, they say

[GeorgeGist]

9. note the use of past tense ....

loved and were devoted and that BC was a lawyer.

[Voice for Peace]

12. Stuff like.. the 'black' thing, tax returns, young people who are hopeful,

Nafta, "judgement," who voted for the war and who didn't, blahblah, truth, blahblah all that kind of stuff

[Johnny__Motown]

13. What does this say about the times he ran? HW Bush was a WWII Hero and he dodged the draft.

Talk about glass houses...



This guy needs to think before he speaks.

[question everything]

14. Because this is how educated people talk?

How would you frame the sentence/

[XemaSab]

16. "We have two proud Americans running for office in this election...

and then we have Senator McCain, who wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years."

:P

[question everything]

17. Except we don't. We don't know who will be our nominee

so it is appropriate to use the term "if."

Yes, we noticed here at the beginning of the debates, when we had 8 candidates, that each would say: "when I am a President," instead of "if I am a president." This was to establish their confidence in their candidacy.

But, really, at this stage it is still "if," as with "if the elections were held today, for whom would you vote?"

[monicaaida]

18. mcpeak is right

[Splinter Cell]

19. The fact is....

The Clintons unite the right more then ANYONE else on earth, and they bring along YEARS of baggage and skeletons. It's that simple. As long as they are anywhere near the process, we won't have a debate about issues, only bullshit.

[mtnsnake]

20. Bill Clinton has more fight in him than Pelosi, Kerry, Obama & all the Obamawhiners combined n/t

[40ozDonkey]

21. Fight ain't win. n/t

[roguevalley]

22. and as much sense of what he says as a brick. he is sounding a

bit like McCarthy with his patriot inference and all the rest. I don't want to live through that shit again.

[Umbram]

26. Bush and Rove have a lot of "fight" as well. (nt)