Comments on: Does Bill Harbor Ill Will Towards Hill?

By: Canadian reader

Canadian reader — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:25:49 +0000

You’ll drop the pseudonym when you’re ready to contribute to civil society. You’re wasting your talent on this too-partisan stuff!

By: David

David — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:11:11 +0000

This is one of the strangest phenomenons that has occurred in American politics the last couple of decades: Bill Clinton’s political invincibility. He’s always been this way. He’s very skilled at running a campaign (the 92 campaign against the elder George Bush was masterful in its mercilessness), and of course he’s always benefited from a friendly news media. The weird thing is that he didn’t really understand what was going on: to hear him tell it, the media has always been unfair to him, picked on him when there was no reason, etc. The whole Lewinsky thing was, as far as his camp is concerned, essentially invented by the media. Certainly there was no reason to ask the question to which he replied with the famous finger-wagging denial. The strange part of this is that now he’s trying the same song, and it’s not playing at all. I’m not sure what the difference is, other than that no one seems to like his wife as much as they like him. Regardless, it’s not playing well in Peoria now, and it’s clear he understands this, but doesn’t know why. I’m not sure anyone else does either. I know I don’t.

By: John Moore

John Moore — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:37:39 +0000

Bill Clinton is exhibiting classic narcissist behavior – this time without the enablers of his wife and press to keep his ego fed. Hence, he’s desperate for stroking. The guy needs to be the center of attention. It is at the core of his being. So he goes for attention when there is no real reason for it, and ends up only getting it by make mistakes.

He’s still smart. He’s not senile. He just can’t control himself well – and never could, as the Lewinsky affair so dramatically showed.

By: J.E.Rendini

J.E.Rendini — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:07:30 +0000

Whatever ambivalence Bill may have over Hilary’s election to the Presidency, and despite any gaffes he may have committed, his political relationship with his wife has little similarity to the relationship between Denis Thatcher and his wife, the Prime Minister.

Bill Clinton has already been President. However much experience Hilary claims from her years in the White House, her husband has more. He also remains the more naturally gifted and deft politician of the pair. In any real crisis, as long as her husband is in the room, the eyes of all Hilary’s subordinates will drift toward him. And when they speak to him, they will not be calling him “Mr. Clinton,” but “Mr. President,” because that is how you address a former President. It’s a small point, but a meaningful one. I don’t think Hilary would have been able to stand sitting through Bill’s third term.

Luckily, we will in all likelihood never know. Hilary will likely sink into insignificance as a lifelong U.S. Senator. Lucky for Bill, too, because I think that had he and Mrs. Clinton found their way back to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the honeymoon would have been short. We all would have awakened one day to find that Bill’s body had turned up stone cold dead in some national park and that the park rangers, who had somehow acquired jurisdiction over the investigation, had attributed his demise to natural causes. At his funeral, President Rodham would have been distraught, in some subtle, dignified and heroic way.

By: Jim Brown

Jim Brown — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:29:00 +0000

What Bill really desperately wants is to be first Rapist (again).

By: gcotharn

gcotharn — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:11:56 +0000

But, Dumaurier-Smith, the media must have seen something in Bill when they annointed him a political genius! What did they see?!

What? What’s that you say? Oh. Right. Party affiliation. Never mind.

By: Kim Zigfeld

Kim Zigfeld — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:01:40 +0000

I personally think Bill is getting senile, and losing his ability to conceal his inability to act out of anything other than self-interest, which doesn’t include his wife being paramount.

But let’s not forget that the main reason Hillary is not already the nominee is that the votes in Michigan and Florida are not being counted. She’s won every top-ten state except Georgia and Illinois and all of the top three. Had she won Michigan and Florida too, and their votes been counted, she would now be naming her vice president.

By: Dumaur-Smith

Dumaur-Smith — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:54:02 +0000

I think the governing authority is “Heinlein’s Razor.” Bill Clinton has always been lauded for his political brilliance, but I think you see Bill Clinton now as he is on his own. Not all that smart and sadly lacking in impulse control.

By: BMoon

BMoon — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:01:32 +0000

These are two impossible-to-underestimate cynical con artists whose marriage exists only as a vehicle for their Faustian bargain with the demon of political power. I think Bill is likely inner conflicted with his narcisstic desire for power, fame, and the spotlight, while recognizing that the same spotlight will hamper his bimbo-addiction.

A classic study.

By: doublehack

doublehack — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:13:41 +0000

Bill’s face has become much more red since Hil started running. Coincidence?