Think it about it. It’s not simple. What would it really be like to have a First Man or First Laddie or whatever you want to call him in the White House who was once the President himself (and who betrayed the then First Lady, now President, while he himself was in the White House)? Surreal, isn’t it? Almost out of an Elizabethan tragedy… Webster or Marlowe.
No wonder Bill, while seeming to be backing Hillary, makes strange blunders. It’s as if he is subconsciously out to sabotage his wife.
Meanwhile, think about what happens if she loses. All those years of looking the other way during his multiple philanderings were based on her sucking it up so she would win the prize herself. If she doesn’t, how do they look at each other? What happens the day after Hillary loses the nomination?
No one could have made this up.
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1. Pribek:I don’t think he does want Hilary to be president. Whether it’s conscious or subconscious, I couldn’t guess.
Dec 18, 2007 - 4:35 pm 2. Charlie (Colorado):It takes a big ego to even want to run for president.
Is an ego like that going to allow subservience?
I’ve been thinking the same thing (but you published first, dammit.)
If I were writing fictional characters based on the Clintons, I’d have Bill’ resent the hell out of Hillary’: her insistence that she’s the smarter of them, her constant calculation, her (this is fiction, remember) unwillingness to have sex with him since the kid was born while turning to a succession of increasingly hot girlfriends … while maintaining a stranglehold on him because she knows enough that were they to divorce, his own ambitions would be destroyed in a flurry of scandals — not to mention the succession of Hillary-driven blunders , like the travel office firings, the “vast right wing conspiracy” line, and the health care debacle.
It’s not hard to imagine that the self-destructive affairs and … lesser relationships … were him acting out against her. So this would be just another step.
I’d predict that if she loses the nomination, things will become very strained. They might even end the pretense that they’re living together.
Dec 18, 2007 - 4:42 pm 3. David Thomson:“What happens the day after Hillary loses the nomination?”
They will likely divorce within the next six months. This peculiar relationship has survived primarily because of their political ambitions. Hillary will not get another chance to run for president. This is her last hurrah—and Bill, if nothing else, will want a younger wife.
Dec 18, 2007 - 7:01 pm 4. Wellspring:You know, this never occurred to me, but it does make a certain kind of sense.
Still, I think Clinton’s blunder is just another case of his mouth moving faster than his mind. He has a certain tendency to say whatever people want to hear at any given moment. Normally the media covers for him, but this one was a bit out there. Even now, they’re mostly downplaying the whole thing.
Dec 18, 2007 - 7:25 pm 5. Mr. G:The threat of divorce might be more useful to her than divorce.
It appears that they do not live together now. They could just live together less.
But as his “wife” she could, when convenient, remind him of the consequences of a divorce.
Dec 18, 2007 - 9:28 pm 6. Barry Dauphin:Never count the Clintons out this early. She might still lose, but it will take a lot more blundering for that to happen. Bill was supposedly dead in 1992. The Clintons love the comeback saga. I remember whoever the ABC reporter was the night the Lewinski scandal broke saying this would end his Presidency. They were talking resignation very soon. Remember how that turned out.
With the Clintons it ain’t over till it’s over. They love the idea that they are down and out. I know, I know, that doesn’t mean it will work again. But it’s way too early to write them off.
Dec 18, 2007 - 9:41 pm 7. David Thomson:“With the Clintons it ain’t over till it’s over.”
The Clintons have survived in the past only because the leftist media and institutions perceived them to be the only game in town. But are they currently considered that indispensable? Could it be that Barack Obama has taken their place? If so, the Clintons former allies may be willing to throw them over the side. They may now regarded as more trouble than they are worth.
Dec 19, 2007 - 2:53 am 8. Always right:No one could have made this up.
Think, for a minute. Do we really need a ceremonial WH ìWifeî/Mate in Clintons’ case? Whatís the critical First Ladyís roles that Hillary hasnít done them herself? If Hillary wins, she’ll wait till the 2012 vote counted before dumping ìhubbieî, while keeping a tight leash on BillyBoy (showing him whoís the REAL boss).
If Hillary loses, Billís fate may not be so bad. Depends on how much longer Hillary still wants her NY senator seat and the power she can wield. I think she can be a powerful (somewhat to really powerful) ìKing Makerî herself. Otherwise sheíll dump him if she calculates that she will gather more sympathy (i.e. feministsí votes) several years too late.
Dec 19, 2007 - 10:41 am 9. Buddy Larsen:well, the word today is, hubby has taken over the campaign. Obama is inside their ooda loop. Yippee.
At any rate, if hubby steps in as fire marshal, this early, under this small emergency, then we can all be safely assured that what we are seeing is Bill running for a third term.
I don’t think Hill is quite what a pure feminist should have in mind for a first Ms President.
Dec 19, 2007 - 6:59 pm 10. Metalguy:“Think it about it. It’s not simple. … Sureal, isn’t it? Almost out of an Elizabethan tragedy… Webster or Marlowe.”
You know, when you put it that way … when you just lose yourself in it… just let it kind of flow around and through you… my pastor’s insistance that the end times really are here just makes more and more sense.
Dec 19, 2007 - 9:36 pm 11. porkopolitan:Almost out of an Elizabethan tragedy… Webster or Marlowe.
Definitely Marlowe — Phillip Marlowe. I’m just wondering where Moose Malloy comes into it.
Dec 20, 2007 - 9:39 pm