Moderators at Wednesday's debate

[gateley]

are Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos.

What do you guys think?

[scheming daemons]

1. George is a Clintonista..... one of the originals..... he won't be fair....

...but Obama will win the debate anyway.

[babylonsister]

2. He also resigned in disgust. I think you might be wrong as to

where his allegiances lie.

[Hepburn]

4. I don't know about this...

...got any more info? Thanks...:hi:

[babylonsister]

8. Here's an article published after his book came out:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/clinton030899.htm

President Clinton is a man of vast "seductive powers" who uses his "personal magnetism" to charm the people he needs, but he is prone to sudden, behind-the-scenes tantrums that descend on aides like "an impersonal physical force, like a tornado," former senior adviser George Stephanopoulos recalls.

First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton is a vulnerable woman who can at times be tender with her husband and his closest aides, but who felt angry and abandoned when scrutiny turned on her in the Whitewater affair. In January 1994, tears in her eyes, she unleashed her wrath on Stephanopoulos at a White House staff meeting: "You never believed in us," she snapped, recalling the 1992 New Hampshire primary. "We were out there alone, and I'm feeling very lonely right now. Nobody is fighting for me. . . . If you don't believe in us, you should just leave."

The question of Stephanopoulos, his loyalty and his ambivalent relationship with the Clintons is rising anew this week, with the release of his book "All Too Human," which is excerpted in the new issue of Newsweek magazine and is the source of the above recollections. The memoir is the latest in a succession of unvarnished and often damaging accounts about the president told by people who were once his intimates.

Beyond the story of one celebrated aide's journey from idealism to a White House "burnout" so draining he sought psychiatric help, Stephanopoulos's book highlights vividly how the presidency -- and the recording of presidential history -- have been transformed in the Clinton years. A confluence of factors has left Clinton arguably the most exposed president ever to hold the office.

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The latest public exposure to come at Clinton's expense is not a surprise. Stephanopoulos, once the most unflagging of Clinton's defenders, publicly signaled his disaffection with his old boss when the Lewinsky controversy erupted in early 1998.

But his book again raises questions that already echoed through this presidency: Why do so many Clinton loyalists fall out with him? Are the former associates who tell their stories being loyal to the truth or disloyal to him? And is it fair to any president to have history told as soon as it is made?

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[gateley]

10. That's a VERY interesting article, babylonsister -- Thank You! nt

[gateley]

7. I've heard that -- do you know why? Another victim of the bus? nt

[babylonsister]

9. See post#8 for more insight. nt

[NYCGirl]

3. No love lost between the Clintons and George. NT

[gateley]

5. When Clinton was on his show recently,

she kept saying == real chummy -- "well YOU know how it is George.." and he didn't bite. Just kept looking her in the eye, stony faced. I loved it.

[zulchzulu]

6. I think both will be pretty fair...considering...

The whole thing is going to have the wrestling match motif and the questions will be bad 50% of the time.

It will be entertaining though...