the LIKABILITY of Hillary Clinton (considering some of the crap we are hearing these days)

[LisaM]

13. Seems to me you're discussing issues, not personality, but okay.

I, of course, do not imbue Hillary with all of Bill's characteristics, nor do I blame her for his legislative actions, but that aside, back in 1992, Bill Clinton was my next-to-last choice of all the primary candidates (the one below him was Tsongas).

At one of the debates, however, I realized that Bill Clinton was a funny and likeable person. Jerry Brown, in his humorless way, inserted his 800 number ("we take $5 donations and you can call....."..) and the moderator made some mild objection, and Bill Clinton burst out laughing and said, "oh, we all know Jerry's 800 number". In fact, he almost seemed disposed to give it out himself.

I think if I ever spent any time with Bill Clinton, I'd enjoy it. He likes other people and he's smart and funny. I remember seeing him sit down with Roger Ebert once and talk about movies for a full hour and his breadth of knowledge was amazing.

I like people who, themselves, like other people and can talk on a variety of subjects.

And, an endearing image I have of Bill Clinton is that, after 9/11, he rushed to New York and went out on the street to comfort people. He looked stricken.