Hillary: Bill Knock it Off!

[NYDem Observer]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/11/hillary-to-bill-knock-it-off/

Hillary Clinton wants her husband to quit talking about her trip to Bosnia in 1996, the former president said Friday.

"Hillary called me and said, 'You don't remember this. You weren't there, let me handle it.' I said, 'Yes ma'am," Clinton said, according to CNN affiliate WTHI, while touring the fire damage of a campaign office in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The comments follow those he made in Boonville, Indiana Thursday, when he strongly defended his wife over the recent coverage surrounding her 1996 Bosnia trip claims, saying the media acted as if she'd "robbed a bank."

"I got tickled the other day, a lot of the way this whole campaign has been covered has amused me, but there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995. Did y'all see all that? Oh, they blew it up," he said.

"You would have thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this," he added. "And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too."

The comments, which the former president said unprompted, were quickly scrutinized, especially in light of they fact they included several falsehoods: the New York senator claimed to have landed under sniper fire during the Bosnia trip on more than one occasion — most recently during a mid-morning March 17 foreign policy address. She has also never formally "apologized" for the comments, according to the Associated Press. Crediting exhaustion, the presidential candidate did say she "misspoke."

[samdogmom]

1. okay, Bill...go be "amused" and "tickled" in the privacy of your own home!

But don't subject the rest of the country to this long, drawn-out race that should have been over already! Hillary has lost! She's still a Senator from NY--focus on that, please!

[C_U_L8R]

2. Managing by STFU

A precise vision of what another Clinton reign would look like.

[Alter Ego]

4. STFU?

Is that Mark Penn's consulting firm?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. No, that would be FUBAR.

[Bake]

12. Apparently Obama put the STFU on Michele

She hasn't made any "for the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my country" bonehead mistakes lately. At least none that the press has reported.

Bake

[HereSince1628]

3. Two people learning about how late they are in understanding the 'net

Both developed their political skills in a world where doubt (often in abundance) was granted as a possible excuse.

Both, but Bill more than Hillary, don't seem to have a clue about how many people watched video clips of her saying the same thing in multiple different venues.

Who wants a president or first man with no awareness of the information skills required in THIS century? Keep up or be left behind.

Bill is so last century, there are now alternatives to stenographers' pens.

[FlyingSquirrel]

6. That should be its own OP... very insightful.

[PoliticalAmazon]

19. Understand if Clintons don't have 'net savvy, but to not even know...

...enough not to get someone on staff who is 'net savvy is a big problem. It shows a disconnect with the American people and a lack of forward-thinking.

This focus on the past is seen in many of Hillary's antecdotes and statements when she speaks longingly of the past.

That's what Ronald Reagan did. That's what Republians do.

What audience is she appealing to?

[NYDem Observer]

5. Its almost as if Bill is oblivious

to the fact that he is ruining his wife's campaign. Either that, or he just doesn't care.
I think eight years of those two in the White House is more than enough for me.

[PetraPooh]

7. "almost as if" ????? I'd say "definitely as if."

[L0oniX]

8. Hmmm too tired at 11pm to tell the truth but at 3am she'll do just fine.

:crazy:

[DangerDave921]

15. ROFL

Hilarious!

[Kber]

9. This must be so frustrating to Sen. Clinton

All those years of watching Bill try to self destruct while those around him pull his ass out of the fire.

Now it's her turn and instead of having a great team around you cover your occasional mistakes, they are only pouring fuel on the fire.

I'm not sure which is the bigger betrayal - the other women or the sabotage of her political dreams.

There's a Shakespearian theme here somewhere, but I'm not clever enough to find it. Hamlet, maybe? With Hillary trapped in the role of Ophelia? Not quite right.

[samdogmom]

18. Well..Bill was the politician from the beginning in this relationship.

Hillary came on board way after the fact. (Mostly because she was just trying to help Bill.) I truly don't think being President of the U.S. was a dream of Hillary's! She needs to move on and let Bill get his jollies elsewhere!

[pompano]

10. Just marginalize it...SOP!

I would tell him to hush-up to. It's like a pile of dried poop, the more they stir in it the worse it will stink. She is probably embarrassed and frankly who wouldn't be?

To put all this aside. No Bill, to some people the truth does matter. And do kindly excuse us Americans for being just a little anal retentive about the garbage that comes out of the mouths of our politicians. You can dismiss it, marginalize it, or dance around the edges of the truth but don't fault us for expecting to hear it unembellished. No, the lie didn't rise to the level of robbing a bank, no one said that, but it did leave some standing no less aghast. Just because you and your wife have spent decades in the political arena manipulating the truth gives you no right to expect everyone else to believe, from the onset, a line of BS that insults ones intelligence.

Americans deserve better.

[MaineDem]

13. Why would he even talk about this?

It makes her campaign look even weaker to me.

If she did indeed say this to him why doesn't he just take the advice and move on. Why make this big an issue over it?

This blows my mind.

[NYDem Observer]

16. I refuse to believe its just BIll not on his A game

If we dig a little deeper I'm sure at the heart of it is Bill not being comfortable with the reality of his wife being POTUS.

[TheDonkey]

14. What a mess, do we realy need this sort of squabbling on the campaign trail?

[Joe the Revelator]

17. If she's forgetting things at 60, I don't want her leading me at 64...

Reagan was enough.

[Raine]

20. Keep talking Bill

you're only helping Obama.