You'll need a nap
After reading this account by a writer who accompanied Bill Clinton to the World Cup and then on a tour around Africa to watch the AIDS-fighting activities of the Clinton Foundation.

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I made it thru the article with only one head dip and I'm glad I did. The author is not a Clinton devotee, so I feel he was being fair in his reporting. Though I have yet to ever vote for a Clinton, like Bill is about AIDS and Rwanda, I apologize for it. I should have been more supportive of the Clinton administration, that point has especially been driven home with what followed him into the White House.
Clearly when the dust is settled by the passage of time, Bill Clinton will be seen as the greatest person to ever come out of Arkansas. Hopefully the people of Arkansas won't wait until after he's dead to show their respect and admiration for his Presidency and the good work he has done since he's been out of office.
If our country had a lick of sense the rules would be changed so we could elect Bill Clinton as President again. I'm usually a stickler for tradition, but if we want a quick fix for the problems that are about to kill us, replacing Bush with Bill Clinton would be a brilliant move. We watched Gone with the Wind for 8 years and for nearly 6 we've been watching Plan 9 from Outer Space. It's always hurts when something great is followed by something horrible.
Hillary Clinton is not as likeable as her husband. She doesn't have his warmth or his gift with words. She never makes you feel more comfortable when she walks into a room. But she is brilliant and we'll never know how many times she made her husband look smarter than even he is.
If we can't have Bill back in the driver's seat, the second best thing is to slide him back into the White House riding on his wife's skirt. The combination of Hill and Bill running this country starting in January, 2009 feels like a banquet to a starving man. As much as I like Russ Feingold and Wes Clark, no medicine would be as good for the ailing old United States than Hill and Bill in the White House.
Want the war to be over, put the Clintons back in the White House. Want to see more done about AIDS, put the Clintons back in the White House. Want to see a stop to the Republican madness, put the Clintons back in the White House.
We've been living a nightmare the last 6 years and our country has become a nightmare to the rest of the world. Stopping our slide into the crapper will take more than one person at the helm. We'll need Hillary and Bill and a strong stong Vice President, one as strong as Cheney, just not evil, in order to save our country and save our planet.
Vote out the Republicans this November and put Hill and Bill in the White House in 2008. Our children, our grandchildren and the rest of the world will thank us.
Posted by: Deathbyinches | August 19, 2006 12:49 PM
Yes they will thank us alright as in: ..." gee thanks mom and dad for all the tax hikes and new taxes...tax, tax, tax...yeah...thanks a f------ bunch !"
Posted by: Anonymous | August 19, 2006 02:01 PM
DBI, You really are a woman aren't you. Now we know. Come monday when Max shuts down this blog by censoring it, you will be gone. You can then move over to the Family Blog. Try that one and we will test your liberalism good there.
Posted by: Anonymous | August 19, 2006 02:05 PM
Anon, do you ever, ever, EVER think of one single thing besides yourself? We're in deep shit in this country and you whine about taxes. Yeah, your kids are gonna have to pay, all right, because Bush has broke the bank through his failed policies.
Posted by: pj | August 19, 2006 02:59 PM
DBI, I agree with you. If Bill Clinton had been able to run for reelection in 2000, he would have handily dispatched Bush back to Texas. Had he been able to run in 2004, it would have been a landslide of proportions unseen since Nixon beat McGovern.
Legally mandated term limits are ridiculous. We have always had term limits -- one calls it a ballot box.
Posted by: My2sense | August 19, 2006 04:27 PM
Clinton was a mediocre president. Nothing more, nothing less.
Posted by: somewhere else | August 19, 2006 10:30 PM
Clinton was a good President who would have been a great President if not for his personal failures which were brought into light by people bent on bringing him down.
Great in my eyes; could have been great in the eyes of others; but definitely better than mediocre.
By the way, Happy Birthday Bill.
Posted by: hugh mann | August 19, 2006 11:10 PM
Not to worry, Hugh, historians have always forgiven personal failures in favor of their overall success. Clinton will go down in history and as a great President.
Posted by: pj | August 19, 2006 11:56 PM
Somewhere else, how do you rate the current POTUS?
Just curious.
Posted by: Paula | August 20, 2006 12:44 AM