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Their overweening political ambitions pulverized, the parlor game du jour must be:  "Will Hill dump Bill?":

The endgame of Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination took an unexpected turn today as her husband, former President Bill Clinton, updated his status on a popular social networking site.

Visitors to Mr. Clinton's profile page at Facebook noticed that minutes after Mrs. Clinton suspended her campaign, President Clinton updated his status from "Married" to "It's Complicated."

Andy Borowitz: Bill Clinton Updates Facebook Profile

This entry was posted on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 16:44 and is filed under .

 

When Bill Clinton went on a tirade yesterday against Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum for his much-talked-about post-presidency article, the former president seemed to include Esquire editor David Granger in his critique, according to the Huffington Post.

"The editor of Esquire--sent us an email yesterday and he said it was the single sleaziest piece of journalism he'd seen in decades. He said it made him want to go take a shower to read it, and he was embarrassed to be a journalist when he read it."

Asked by the Texas Monthly yesterday if he told that to Clinton, Granger said: "I most certainly did not."

So where did this come from? According to an Esquire spokesperson, a staff editor at Esquire--and not the editor--sent a private e-mail to Doug Band, a top Clinton aide described in Purdum's piece as a the president's one-time "butt boy."

Ben Smith's Blog: Band apologizes to Esquire - Politico.com

This entry was posted on Tue, 06/03/2008 - 10:22 and is filed under .

Is there no place sacred?  Bill, on holy ground:

"I didn't come here to ask you to vote for my wife," said Clinton, addressing the congregation at Church of the Pentacostal in Asheville, N.C. "I came here to ask you to pray for her."

Political Radar: Bill Clinton Asks N.C. Churchgoers to Pray for Hillary

I didn't come here to ask you to vote for my wife.  That is an untruth.  It isn't like Bill woke up Sunday morning, coincidentally two days before an election in which his wife just happened to be involved, finding himself against all odds in North Carolina, where said election by some odd chance was occurring, realizing his wife was standing in the need of prayer.

True, it is not the most outrageous lie ever told, certainly not by Bill Clinton.  Indeed one might argue it is simply a rhetorical device.  Depends on what the meaning of is is. 

This entry was posted on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 12:18 and is filed under .

This was an insightful piece on the Clinton's mentality.

To survive this assault, the Clintons built up a counter-narrative of the way Washington works. They believed that the city's snooty press and opinion elites viewed them as provincial hicks, too déclassé to win admission to their cozy Georgetown clique. And this was an early seed of a deeper critique that the Clintons came to adopt: that the press is composed of elites who are out of touch with average America. After Sally Quinn's infamous article ran, Paul Begala went to the Oval Office, waving it in his hand and declaring, "This is perfect." Bill kept it on his desk for weeks as a reminder of the disconnect between elite opinion and the public. That disconnect became a favorite theme of Clinton pollster Mark Penn, who explained to one interviewer last year that "[media] elites are increasingly separated from the kind of struggles that working- and middle-class voters are feeling."

Siege Mentality

This entry was posted on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 11:56 and is filed under .

 

Former president tells crowd his wife can still win the popular vote — with their help.

At a firehouse in Madison, says “Hillary can get eighty percent of the vote in West Virginia, and if only 100,000 people show up it is not enough. But if 600,000 people show up…than you will see the earth move. You can do it.”

The Page - by Mark Halperin - TIME

Yeah, and if that many show up, we'll have voter fraud.  The entire population of West Virginia is only 1,818,470. 

This entry was posted on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 15:29 and is filed under .

Bill is at it again, using an allusion to stealing cars during a riff about Obama taking credit for not accepting money from oil companies, an illegal act.

Is this racist?  Certainly it is easy enough to dismiss it as an innocent remark.  That's why it is so slick.  But there is something unnatural about the allusion.  Why not the more natural and neutral "beating your wife"?  Instead he chose a white stereotype for blacks. 

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Slick, Willie.

This entry was posted on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 10:40 and is filed under .

Rumor has it Hillary is being approached with the carrot of running for governor of New York to replace scandal plagued Paterson who replaced scandal plagued Spitzer.

Are you kidding me? Replacing scandal plagued anyone with the Clintons?

Bill has been on his best behavior for a chance to return to Pennsylvania Avenue, scene of his favorite debaucheries. No place like the Oval Office for cigars and interns. But then, there's the possibility Spitzer left his little black book in the governor's mansion, a prospect I'm sure whoever was crazy enough to think this was a good idea didn't fail to mention. Not around Hillary, of course.

Now if he can only figure out how to get the key to the chastity belt out of her pu...rse.

This entry was posted on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 04:19 and is filed under .

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