Bill: Health-care failure was my fault

Dave, Tn — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:10:15 GMT

Just when the girl card stuff was starting to die down. Anyone else think he's trying to sink her swiftboat himself?

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Steve Turner Cedar Falls Iowa — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:16:50 GMT

So, you guys heard about the Waitress who lied? Maybe you're getting you're reports from Karl Rove? Someone said they saw him in Pella, wearing a Cyclones Sweatsuit and carrying a "The 22nd Amendment Doesn't Count" sign. I believe that's Huevos Rancheros on your faces. There are also some bloggers who owe Hillary an apology, though I'm sure she's not gonna hold her breath.

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Asad — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:19:09 GMT

Wow... talk about being whipped... whappaah!

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mWINCK — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:21:43 GMT

MRS.BILL CLINTON BIGGEST OBSTACLE IS MR.BILL CLINTON.
HE IS HER OWN WORST ENEMY. I FOR ONE BELIEVE THAT HE REALLY DOES NOT WANT HER TO BE PRESIDENT. STEALS TOO MUCH OF HIS THUNDER
MWINCK
SLIDELL, LA

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Ruth, New York, New York — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:22:27 GMT

I imagine had the health care fiasco instead been a success, Hillary Clinton would be taking (and being given by Bill) all the credit. Even with her failure, she talks about her "experience" in health care reform. Once again, she is trying to have it both ways.

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Carrie, Eastern Iowa — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:26:45 GMT

Interesting comment, Asad. Elizabeth Edwards and Michelle Obama frequently speak on behalf of their husbands and in defense of their husbands policies and/or statements. Are you willing to make the same crude comment about them?

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--NSMSNBC — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:33:38 GMT

I’m going to let you in on a little secret . . . shhh, don’t tell anybody. If you select Clinton on your ballot, you will get Hillary, not Bill. That doesn’t mean that you won’t have to carry Bill’s baggage though.

Maybe if the Clinton's released their records, we could verify Hillary's role in anything during Bill's presidency. Frankly, if we find out that it was Bill's fault, then what experience is Hillary claiming. If it is Hillary's fault, then it just adds to the argument of her being devisive and polarizing.

It's nice to see Bill being so objective about this whole election (ummm, yeah). He obviously has a powerful stake in her winning. Nobody (besides the more deluded) actually believes Bill will be a "roving ambassador" in another Clinton administration, not even those really close to the Clintons. His role will be more like Cheney's role to Bush--except on the days they fight.

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Paula Pierce, Branson Missouri — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:40:03 GMT

Bill Clinton has got to be the biggest idiot in world. Either that, or he's switched over to help Obama.

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CJ — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:47:21 GMT

Did those Bush tax cuts not exist before 2001? Still going to have to figure out a way to pay for her proposals.

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Michael, Iowa — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:47:22 GMT

Interesting how The other candidates wifes can say whatever they want - Hello Mrs. Edwards - how many times has she said bad things (Like the only reason no one pays attention to her husband is because he is a white male - not a woman or black). Bill Clinton has a right to defend and be bias to his wife.

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Sarah — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:48:52 GMT

It's sad. Bill Clinton is becoming a joke.

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Mark — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:51:30 GMT

Bill's statement is laughable at best. Boy, has he been on damage control since the last debate or what? If his statement is true, show the records. Clinton INC is crumbling. Much to my delight.

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Roz, Alabama — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:52:46 GMT

The Clintons are desperate. Hillary is pulling the Big Gun out now,Bill and what a crock. She definitely cannot stand up against the GOP.

Senator Obama for the Democratic nominee.
GO BRACK!!!

Only Honesty, no baggage with Obama.

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Psychic Mary — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:53:13 GMT

None of this matters. The vision is exquisitely clear. We will have a female president. Hillary will be our next president.

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Ben — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:54:00 GMT

Uh Bill:
Since George Bush actually created the tax cuts for the rich after you left, the money was there.

The lobbyists who now finance your wife's campaign blocked it. The secretive nature in which she did business blocked it. Her resistance to compromise blocked it.

Nothing has changed.

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HILLARY 08 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:56:15 GMT

It will be a wonderful day for America when William Jefferson Clinton is back in the WHITE HOUSE!! America will be so proud, the world will be proud. We will gain support and respect from world leaders.
Hillary and Bill will lead America to greatness once more. The dynamic duo will lead and take us out of the fear and crime of our present disaster in chief.
Hail to the Clinton's to America as it should be!
America vote for the best of the best.

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HILLARY 08 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:57:52 GMT

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Don, New York — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:57:55 GMT

Asad,

If you take time to study some of the more effective leaders--in business and in government--you will find a number of common aspects to their managerial approach:

1. Willingness to share credit with others when things go well;
2. Acceptance of responsibility when things don't go well;
3. Recruitment and retention of superior people to fill subordinate positions;
4. Full, frank, and open dialogue in the decision making process so that a wide range of ideas, scenarios, and options are explored.

Such approaches have nothing to do with being "whipped." Although I am a Republican, I find your thinly veiled sexism to be irrelevant to the discussion at hand and little more than a distraction.

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Bee — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:58:06 GMT

Is this a damage control? This guy is a joke. He is trying to have it both ways again.

We all knew Hillary Clinton blew it as a chairman of the task force. Now Bill is telling us otherwise.

Sorry, Slicky Bill, i ain't buying it

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Erik — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:59:54 GMT

If it was Bill who failed at health care well then.... What is it that Hillary accomplished?! She won't release records disclosing what she has done and her husband is taking credit for her failures. WHAT DID SHE DO? WHY SHOULD WE VOTE FOR HER?

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Asad — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:00:55 GMT

I meant that he's whipped for taking the blame for Hillary's mistakes. Many of us guys do it from time to time or risk sleeping on the dredded couch...

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Lee Holmes — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:01:32 GMT

A woman can ''balance things better''. Then perhaps Bill would like to explain why Bhutto was tossed out of Pakistan the first time around. The chronic and endemic political scandals involving the administration of Indias Indira Gandhi. The inability of Israels Golda Meir to restrain MOSSAD,coupled with more political corruption there. Corizone Aquinos utterly corrupt government in the Phillipines.
That Bill places a gender quality on his pronouncement is already making him and Hillary look ridiculous. Indeed,in the awaited poll by WSJ/NBC,Guiliani is now at dead heat with Hillary, a stumbled runner who cannot seem to regain her feet. Hillarys pal Joe Klein is at this moment,trying to rally the troops over at TIME Magazine while the lead continues to leak. In another worrying poll by RASMUSSEN,while a substantial number of Americans wish to see Democrats with their hands on the wheel[though even this is diminishing due to their lousy trackrecord in Congress coming up on its first year],only 46%[of Democrats,not all parties], said that they would back a ''Hillary Clinton'' who remains Americas most polarizing presidential candidate today. This number will probably go south,with Edwards,Obama,Guliani,and the dark horse Paul,gleaning the benefits leading up to next summer.

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Bee — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:01:50 GMT

No! he didn't say that. We know the ultimate fault rest with the President but the person that spear head the program is at fault too.

Actually, Hillary is not a woman but a neo con that is pretending to be a woman. If Hillary is so competent why did she blew it in the '90s.

She closed the doors to all the chairman of various committee and now Bill want us to believe otherwise.

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Asad — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:23:29 GMT

By the way, if Barack Obama had dropped the ball on a legislation and Michelle Obama took the blame, I would find that suspect as well.

And I want to point something out... I am a liberal (as "looney" as we come), and for the last several years, whenever one of us objected to Bush's policies we were called traitors... now, whenever someone objects to Clinton, we are called sexists. Are we trading one ridiculous "freedom fries" regime for another?

Just FYI, my favorite Senator is Barbara Boxer, and if she were running for President I would be supporting her.

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Carrie, Eastern Iowa — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:23:41 GMT

NSMNBC - Do you require all of the other spouses to be objective as well?

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MK,MO — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:24:07 GMT

mr. clinton proclaims / Her gender, he said. will be a big asset, in part because a woman can balance things better.

they are beginning to pander to the only supporters hillary has ever really had, the feminazi's. everyone else has known for years she is just another corporate owned eletist.

can anyone imagine what an up-roar would occur if one of the male candidates even insinuated that they were somehow able to do anything better because they were male and not female, what a bunch of sexist bull, the hillary is on the way down if she was ever really up

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Carrie, Eastern Iowa — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:24:50 GMT

FYI Bee, the nickname was "Slick Willy" not Slicky Bill.

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Jane Doe — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:30:29 GMT

Bill,
What a Joke! Does America really want a serial sexual predator back in the White House?

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Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:35:11 GMT

yea, and sorry bee but the Clintons will be back in the White House. Obama is going to have to wait.

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Marnie, South Bend — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:36:06 GMT

Mrs Clinton has bigger balls than all the men combined.

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Pacheck — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:38:40 GMT

It is what it is. Yes, Hillary was the pointman for healthcare during Bills administration. Today she takes money from the healthcare industry, and consistantly votes for funding the occupation. Thats weak. My candidate will have to be stronger than that.
Down with Hypocrites!!

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John B, Des Moines, IA — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:38:47 GMT

Of course all the negatives that were projected to come from NOT passing health care reform then have come true. Increasing premiums, increasing out of pockets, increasing uninsured, increasing dependence on existing government programs, declining quality of care for those who can't afford the Cadillac plans, all of it true.

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Richard, FL — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:39:42 GMT

What?!? The Democrats controlled Congress when Billary sold out on health care. MILLIONS of Americans have the scars for that fia$co.

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Jan, Nashua, NH — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:41:33 GMT

re: "Uh Bill: Since George Bush actually created the tax cuts for the rich after you left, the money was there."

Uh, Ben... the healthcare debate was in 1995. President Clinton left the surplus to Bush in 2001. It was spent by 2003.
Not on healthcare, but on tax cuts for the wealthy.

And now we have a war being "funded" by Bush on our kids' future -- as an "emergency" after almost five YEARS.

Clinton:
peace and prosperity

Bush:
unending debt, unending wars, unending invasions, unending invasions of privacy

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Clare Rockmann, Boulder Co — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:42:07 GMT

I hate to say it, but it's looking more and more like Bill C. has Alzheimer's.

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judy cagle bremen,ga — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:50:18 GMT

hillary and bill are the best suited for the job.i bet you could dig up dirt on any of the ones running or find fault with any of them. none are perfect.everyone has their own opinion about who is the best,and my opinion is hillary.i hope and pray shes our next president.people including me just love to debate and argue

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Arshad, Newburgh, NY — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:59:06 GMT

Hillary is running on her experience as first lady and being in charge of healthcare reform and claimed learning from mistake. Bill is saying she did nothing wrong and it's all his fault. Well, we don't have the "35 years of standing up against right wing attack machine" and "strength and experience to deliver change". Mr Clinton, sit down with wife and settle down on one story and both use one consistent story. You couple are becoming a laughing stock. Better keep doing what you have been doing as an ex president and live rest of the life with dignity and honor if you have any left.

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BIGOLDTEXAN — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:23:02 GMT

Bee. He is trying to have it both ways again.

This why HRC is the same way.
You can`t have it both ways HRC or Bill.
Truth be told I really think that Bill is helping
the other candidates.

Hillary is for Hillary and the special interests
groups.

OBAMA CAN AND WILL BRING THIS COUNTRY TOGETHER.
THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. NO MORE POLARIZING FIGURES WHO WILL DIVIDE AND KEEP DIVIDING THIS COUNTRY.

Her continually changing her mind to fit her audience, it is really getting ridiculous.
a vote for Hillary is a vote to nowhere and no changes.
Hillary Clinton, 15 years of dishonesty, scandals and divisiveness.

DO WE REALLY WANT THIS IN THE WHITE HOUSE CONTROLLING OUR COUNTRY.............I THINK NOT!!!

Hillary Clinton is too corrupt and scandal prone to clean up the Bush legacy.

Hillary Clinton will just make people forget about the Bush scandals by creating more new scandals of her own.

Hillary Clinton is too divisive to bring this country together. She would lead a Bush-Cheney-light '51% solution' with her own 'dead-enders' approving everything she does and the rest of the country oposing her corruption.

Those 27% who still support Bush would be replaced by the 27% who support Clinton after a year of two.

Hillary Clinton, 15 years of dishonesty, scandal and divisiveness.

WHAT WE NEED IS CHANGE, AND OBAMA IS THE MAN TO DO IT!! HE HAS STOOD BEHIND ALL THAT HE HAS STATED, HE DOES NOT FLIP FLOP JUST TO GET THE SIDES OF THE AUDIENCE.
BARACK DEMOSTRATES HIS INTELLIGENCE & JUDGMENT BY STATING THE OBVIOUS.

NO MORE BUSHS/CLINTONS................End This War!!
NO MORE REPUBLICANS/CLINTONS..........End This War!!

Best Ticket: OBAMA/EDWARDS '08

OBAMA/EDWARDS '08

NO MORE BUSHS/CLINTONS................End This War!!
NO MORE REPUBLICANS/CLINTONS..........End This War!!

OBAMA/EDWARDS '08

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Miguel Hernandez Hialeah Florida — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:33:06 GMT

Bill Clinton is not the best Citizen of American. But he is certainly one of the best president we have ever had. He gave intellectual prestige to the white house, a most needed thing in a time in which the american educational system is a matter of laugh as a result of the poorly performance in that respect of our current president. Hillary clinto understand America well and is smart enough to deal with the world without embarrasing the nation like Bush does

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Bee — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:37:53 GMT

FYI Bee, the nickname was "Slick Willy" not Slicky Bill,

I hear you carrie but you get the point

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Justin, Gainesville FL — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:01:46 GMT

Well now I'm just confused. Hillary's claiming her health care initiative during her husband's administration is part of her "extensive" experience. Now Bill claims the failings of that plan were his fault, but not really (they were the fault of not enough money, which Bush took away 6 years after the health care initiative died).

So what, exactly, is Hillary's "experience" in this regard, then?

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Ben — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:10:50 GMT

Uh Jan in Nashua:

Peace and Prosperity? That will be increasingly difficult when Hillary invades Iran.

Do you follow her voting record?

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Real Democrat, CA — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:32:24 GMT

It's sad to hear Bill rehearse the talking points from Hillary's campaign. Hillary, by taking credit from the Clinton presidency, is damaging his legacy thereby rendering his presidency useless. Bill should've kept his member in his pants...now he's subjected to Hillary's vengeance.
PEOPLE magazine should come out with the "Most Dysfunctional Couple"...billary would win in a landslide.

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sonya, atlanta, ga — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:06:05 GMT

So what is Hillary's experience in the healthcare reform debacle. She has claimed that because of it, she has learned from the mistakes and will be the best canidate to make it law this time around. Your experience whether a success or not informs you and helps you acheive greater things. So either she has no experience or Bill is working for the Obama campaign because he is surely throwing around alot of trash. Hillary had to backaway from Bill's swiftboating remarks. Do I hear another nail in the inevitablity campaign? Oh, yes I do! Obama 08!

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Sierra, SF — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:04:00 GMT

Don, New York: '...Asad,

If you take time to study some of the more effective leaders--in business and in government--you will find a number of common aspects to their managerial approach:

1. Willingness to share credit with others when things go well;
2. Acceptance of responsibility when things don't go well;
3. Recruitment and retention of superior people to fill subordinate positions;
4. Full, frank, and open dialogue in the decision making process so that a wide range of ideas, scenarios, and options are explored...'

Wow !!
Don, anything in there about doing you intern with a cigar ?
That must be something 'effective leaders'' do ?
How about lying under oath ?
Keeping their records under seal until after the election cycle ?
Whining when your wife is caught lying ?

Are those all techniques for 'effective leaders' ?

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Sierra, SF — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:07:28 GMT

Carrie, Eastern Iowa: '...FYI Bee, the nickname was "Slick Willy" not Slicky Bill....'

Gee Carrie, I always thought it was Slick Willie

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Dee Anna Roberts , Green Bay Wisconsin (Go Packers!) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:39:42 GMT

The truth of the matter is, voters need to think about the fact that Hillary could not get her UHC passed even with a Democratic controlled Congress as well as 80% support for the plan by the American people in 1993 and her polarizing approach to it, caused the Democrats to lose Congress the following year. (Look it up) That's what voters need to think about. Hillary has experience alright. Experience in not getting things passed even in a Democratic controlled Congress because she is a polarizing divisive politician and we don't need that right now. We need UHC. Not HRC.

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Dee Anna Roberts , Green Bay Wisconsin (Go Packers!) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:09:08 GMT

judy cagle bremen,ga ,

Are you sure about that ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN5dqJHEnyE

....and that's from DEMOCRATS!

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Amy B Portland, ME — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:59:34 GMT

I thought his comments were charming. When has Bush ever sincerely taken responsibility for anything he has done? I miss Bill!

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Don, New York — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:47:31 GMT

Sierra, SF,

I was referring strictly to President Clinton's taking primary responsibility for the failure of his administration's health care initiative. I made no comment whatsoever about some of President Clinton's myriad personal shortcomings e.g., his behavior with Ms. Lewinsky. FWIW, I strongly believe in transparency. Hence, in my opinion, official records (excepting those that would compromise national security, sources and methods of Intelligence, etc.) should be made public. However, those issues are separate matters from that which I commented on.

Have a great weekend.

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Richard, Washington State — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:15:41 GMT

Amy B:

What hasn't Bush taken responsibililty for? You might not like what he's taken responsibility for, but he has not tried to pass the buck to anyone else. And these are big important things.

Initially, until he stopped lying about it, Bill Clinton couldn't even take responsibility for an unimportant thing.

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Richard, Washington State — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:23:04 GMT

Jeez, "willie" or "willy"? We'd better get that major policy issue settled quick, so the conversation can go on.

Every time the health care debacle is mentioned, whatever the context, it reminds me that the greatest political mind in the history of the presidency couldn't pass legislation when the president, the house and the senate were under Democrat control. And until now, he always did let Hillary take the rap.

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Elizabeth Sullivan, San Diego, CA — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:51:37 GMT

Carrie,

You strike me as a smart gal. But, seriously, it shouldn't be so hard and require so much typing on your part to support a candidate.
She is sucking the life out of you. How many more polite, yet subtly condescending, posts can you write? You gotta be getting pretty tired.

I know you like Biden and while Biden doesn't get as much press, he never disappoints.

Come on over to our side. Once you go Biden you never go back.

(and I am being serious......she just had her second planted question after her campaign vowed earlier in the day they would be planting no more questions....I am just saying think about it)

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Randy Travis — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:19:08 GMT

Any OTHER Democrats totally underwhelmed with the Clinton Obama Edwards choices?

Me too... I am really thinking seriously about Ron Paul..

The HONESTY he would bring.. along with divided government... New Conservatives hate him, and the dems don't like him... But they BOTH share some things in common..

Might be nice to see the Congress come together for the people and pass legislation over RP's veto!

But as for Clinton (Monarchy) Obama (rhetoric) or Edwards (socialist)... not to mention ANY OF THE REPUBLICANS... other than Paul... ugh!

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AV NY, NY — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:24:21 GMT

Bill Clinton is a patriot and knows better than anyone why the country need Ron Paul. But again... Hillary is a lost cause so things will work out just fine.

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Watching you — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:40:13 GMT

FYI Bee, the nickname was "Slick Willy" not Slicky Bill,

I hear you carrie but you get the point
Bee (Sent Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:37 PM)
------------------------------------------------------***The point is whoever you are Bee, you are really reaching when you try to "bee" who you are not!

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HILLARY 08 — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:41:11 GMT

I thought his comments were charming. When has Bush ever sincerely taken responsibility for anything he has done? I miss Bill!
Amy B Portland, ME (Sent Friday, November 09, 2007 9:59 AM)

ME TOO!