CNN Candy points out Big Dog's ability to use the English language --

[DeepModem Mom]

I missed most of Wolf's interview with Bill, except I heard his quick, and I think appropriate, answer when Wolf asked him if going into Iraq had been a mistake: he said Wolf was trying to get him to make news, and he was trying to educate people. (There is another GD thread on this exchange.) Much as we would have liked to hear different words, Clinton is a member of the former Presidents Club -- and much as we would like the troops home, they are there, in harm's way, at this moment.

What surprised me was the tone of the conversation following the interview, among Wolf, Candy Crowley, John King, and Jeff Greenfield. Folks, something has changed. There were no snide remarks, no rancor, no mention of scandal, as both Bill and Hillary were discussed. I know many on this board are not big fans of either Clinton, but if the demonization the Right has heaped on the Clintons for years is beginning to be neutralized it is a good thing for our side.

Wolf gave Jeff Greenfield the last say, and he took the opportunity to ask a question that, oddly, someone I shared dinner with last night asked at the table: If a Presidential election were held today between Bush and former President Clinton, who would win? This is a question, I think, fraught with meaning -- and part of that meaning is one man's inability to use the English language, and one man's mastery of it.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. How dumbs-as-a-box-of-rocks do you have to be to see the difference

between Clinton and Bush, in this regard???

[DeepModem Mom]

3. What struck me was Candy's saying it --

she has been vicious to Democrats every time I've seen her cover a campaign. She chose to say it, not as a comparison to Bush, but I think as an acknowledgment of one of Clinton's gifts.

[NewJeffCT]

2. Clinton would slaughter * in an election

Diebold might make an election close, but even they couldn't fudge it that much...

Clinton would have won in a landslide in 2000, too.

[madfloridian]

4. Why couldn't he just say it was wrong?

Why did he have to avoid it?

[maxsolomon]

6. LOYALTY TO THE OFFICE

and what he said. its not clinton's job to give * & his flying monkeys a straw man to tee off on & distract the public.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. I would rather he'd said it was wrong, but I understand...

his reasons for not saying that. I don't know if Carter, our other living Dem President, has said it was a mistake?

With that answer, the interviewer has the chance to ask about our kids dying in vain. That question is difficult to answer on television, with grieving families all over the land.

[TomInTib]

5. The change in the tone...

is very heartening. Seems that *'s act is really wearing thin.

[soleft]

8. Hillary/Bill going to win in 2008 - their smarts and charisma

lethal combo to any appt. GOP can run

And the idea of Bill back in the White House is just going to irrestible to the American psyche