I wish we could talk sanely about the Clintons and their long history

[DFW]

159. Don't spend a lot of time in DC, do you? WTF?

Over the last 50 years, I have met and talked to plenty of prominent politicians of both parties. A number of them, Bill Clinton included, are true people persons, were/are glad to chat with anyone, friend or stranger, on any subject on a spontaneous one-on-one basis.

But just as many of them are completely uptight if the situation is not planned and controlled. Reagan comes to mind, LBJ struck me that way, too, although since I was 13, there wasn't a lot we were going to have in common anyway. I never met Reagan, but my dad knew him. At least one sitting Democrat in Congress, whom most of us admire, so I won't say the name on the board, is reputed to be like that, too. I don't know this individual personally, but someone whose judgement I very much respect (as does much of DU, for that matter) has mentioned this to me more than once.

Getting past their handlers physically is the easy part, if you know how to do it. Getting them to open up if they are not into opening up is the hard part. Some up them close up tighter than a Cape Cod clam.