Bill Clinton: Hillary Would Have Been the Best VP Pick ‘Politically’

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Posted on Sep 22, 2008

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Former President Bill Clinton braved the deceptively comfy-looking couch on the set of “The View” to sit for a chat with Barbara Walters and her deceptively bubbly-seeming quartet of co-hosts, who are suddenly in the catbird seat in terms of landing the big political interviews after their headline-grabbing session with John McCain on Sept. 12.

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By Ryan T. M., September 25, 2008 at 7:15 am Link to this comment

He first stated that it’s a personal choice, and a personal belief that Hillary would have politically helped in the short term. Nowhere did he say that Obama made the wrong choice (in fact, I would consider it more admirable to not make short term political benefit the deciding factor in the choice), nor did he mention anything negative about Obama.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 24, 2008 at 5:16 pm Link to this comment

Bill isn’t expected to think his wife would have been a better VP than Biden? Or a better POTUS than Obama?

I got to admire his loyalty to his wife.  NATURALLY he thinks she’d be best.

But it’s really stupid to say it publicly. Big Dawg’s gotta realize that it ain’t about him or Hillary—it’s about where we are going.  He’s GOT to know that Obama is the ONLY person running for POTUS who is going to restore the effective tools that Clinton enacted.  Clinton’s economic legacy is looking better and better—Obama will restore them and prove, yet again, THEY WORK!

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By wagonjak, September 24, 2008 at 11:18 am Link to this comment
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To see Bill appear again and again and offer half-hearted support of Obama, fulsome praise for McKrusty and Palin, and reasons why his wife would be the better choice for President makes me CRAZY!

PLEASE BILL, YOUR SIDE LOST, and your only mission should now be to help Obama to become the next president!

Of course we know Bill’s only mission is self-aggrandizement and fluffing up his own name on the world stage and in the annals of history!

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By yellowbird2525, September 24, 2008 at 10:40 am Link to this comment

Bill Clinton was the one who REMOVED the laws protecting the people that were set up after the depression to prevent this “meltdown” from happening again; he did it in 1999; So Hillary was yest AM on the GMA show proclaiming to everyone that for the past 2 years she has been advocating that they be put back on again?????????***********folks this was SET UP as both parties are in total agreement; they ‘pretend” to be different to fool the public which they have done very well; Pretending to have a choice & never agreeing they have everything & the people have nothing; YET: the PEOPLE believe (erroneously) we have had everything! (are you really as stupid as all that? THEY think you are & shake their heads in amazement!) WHY do YOU think folks in Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, & almost every other country live better & longer than Americans? GOSH! The “politicians” said to the Indians: you are to dumb to handle the money (that was promised to them) and so THEY took & kept it; every single cent; the political parties in the USA have NEVER kept a single promise to any Indian tribe nor any veteran: with the exception of McCain & the Pentagon parasites; they have a great laundering $ back to themselves & the politicians in place; have no need of Mafia; we have Congress & Pentagon & Gov’s etc don’t we; No wonder they want to take this globally; they get it all & the people get nothing!

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By PatrickHenry, September 24, 2008 at 3:27 am Link to this comment

Since Bill is unemployed, maybe he can get a full time job on “The View”.

He seems to be full of views.

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By Bugged, September 23, 2008 at 5:20 pm Link to this comment
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Bill says (with seeming conviction) that many people do not vote based on their economic interests.

I think that that attitude comes from delusions,(Republicans who “live poor and vote rich”) or being comfortable financially.

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By JL, September 23, 2008 at 1:51 pm Link to this comment
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Rothschild’s transition to the McCain camp goes a long way to vindicate Obama’s decision not to choose Hillary as a running mate. Rothschild was just one of the many bedfellows that revealed Hillary’s dark side.  Or, as Robert Scheer likes to point out (paraphrased) the problem with Hillary is that she has a bit too much Margaret Thatcher in her…

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By hippy pam, September 23, 2008 at 11:33 am Link to this comment

Hillary HAD MY VOTE…Now my choice is….Sleep with a loaded gun and wait for my home to be robbed…OR…..Sleep with a loaded gun and wait for the GOD POLICE…

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By Kramer, September 23, 2008 at 8:15 am Link to this comment
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Only if this dude had kept the CIGAR to himself, the course of history may have turned out to be different for the Dems! At least he should keep the trap shut, for now.

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By roadkill, September 23, 2008 at 7:21 am Link to this comment

On second thought, Obama doesn’t need the big dog.

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By DoctorK, September 22, 2008 at 9:58 pm Link to this comment

Bill needs to chill…about Hill.  Now is not the time to “posture” but to rally behind the Democratic ticket…no sour grapes or poor-sport tinge to his under-impressive endorsement of Obama, which will SURELY be picked up and spun into “Palin is a great pick, McCain is fit for POTUS”. Wake up, Bill! Most people show the distinct/sharp contrast between YOUR eight years and those of the Bush-league presidency.  McCain/Palin = Bush/Cheney AGAIN!!

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By Outraged, September 22, 2008 at 8:42 pm Link to this comment

Re: PatrickHenry

Your comment: “Now Hillary is free to stay at home and make Bubba’s life hell.”

Don’t tell anyone one I said this,..Shh.., not ladylike an ‘all, but “Tee..he..he, that’s the part of Hillary that I actually like.”  You go girl.

What’s Bill doing “speaking up” for Hillary, anyway?  She doesn’t have any problem standing up for herself.  Or is Bill just trying to INSURE an Obama loss.  Bill’s record…well, for THE PEOPLE…, sucked.

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By PatrickHenry, September 22, 2008 at 4:53 pm Link to this comment

Now Hillary is free to stay at home and make Bubba’s life hell.

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