Bill Clinton speaks against 'demonizing' political leaders

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6/17/2006, 7:26 p.m. ET
By PEGGY HARRIS
The Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that, if he returns to the White House in 2008 because his wife becomes president, his role would be to "do whatever she wants" because that's what a good citizen would do.

Clinton said he didn't know if U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a Democrat from New York seeking re-election this year, would run for president in two years as some have speculated, but he predicted a woman could win the most powerful office in the world.

Asked at an Association of Alternative Newsweeklies convention what his role would be if his wife were elected, the former two-term president said, "I'll do whatever she wants, and I have no idea what that is. I honestly don't know whether she's going to run."

Clinton said he believes his wife would make a good president and has been a better senator than he expected she would be, becoming knowledgeable about national security, commerce, political relationships, and other issues.

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[Deja Q]

1. Why didn't he speak up when he was demonized as president?

[DIKB]

3. b/c

It would have been regarded as pure self-interest. Now though, having been demonized as few have been in the past half-century, he can take a principled "moral high ground" stance. I personally find the attacks they made on him to be unexcusable, he was called everything from a rapist to a murderer.

I agree with the concept of being the "bigger person", but find the stakes too high at the moment to maintain such principles. The lives of our soldiers, the environment, the economy, and the well-being of the international community demand that these fascist thugs be ousted, whatever the means.

[still_one]

2. hey bill, I don't want anymore bushs or clintons in the white house

even though bushco is destroying our republic, you provided the rope to hang us

[Cha]

4. Sorry, Clinton..that's just

not true.."bush has an intuitive intelligence"..and If they are "two demensional cartoons" are we suppose to pretend they're not?

I understand what he's saying..the faux CONservatives started it and it's no way to help the country but what can Democrats do when they are up against a posse of marauding psychopaths?

Turn the other damn cheek? Like the last 13 years?

[ismnotwasm]

5. The headline is misleading, and was caught in LBN

by wtmusic
What he said was;
"What concerns him more, he said, is a particular strain of the Republican Party that he said has gotten control in Washington. Reminding his audience that he grew up in the South as a native of Arkansas, Clinton said right-wing ideologues and "ultra-conservative, white Southerners" have "demonized" those who think differently from them."
A bit different I think.