Before Pennsylvania, Bill Clinton Heads To Belfast
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Bill Clinton in Belfast in 1995.
A reader points out that Bill Clinton, Hillary's most tireless (if somewhat reined-in) surrogate, is taking some time off from the trail to appear in Northern Ireland on April 10 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Belfast agreement he helped bring about.
The reader, who prefaced an email with the sensible suggestion that this may be "a spin too far," nevertheless asks: “Does the fact that WJC has signed up to be in Belfast on April 10 suggest that he doesn't think his stumping services will be required 12 or so days before PA?”
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Enough Clinton Inc. - London Times - 1/24/08
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article...
[...But Bill Clinton's behaviour these past couple of weeks ought by now to be flashing warning signs for American voters. It is not just that his egregious interventions in the campaign have revived the near certain prospect of a demoralising replay of the stomach-churning bitterness and vicious partisanship of the 1990s - not all of which was the Clintons' fault.
It is that, if nothing else, the history of America, from its very founding, has been a history of the struggle to constrain the appetites of powerful men - and occasionally women. It was this fear of the monarchical tendency that persuaded Americans more than 50 years ago to limit presidents to two terms in office.
By cleverly reincorporating themselves as a political institution in their own right, the Clintons are offering an extra-constitutional detour around this impediment. Her husband's evident role in his family's restoration should give any reasonable American pause when considering the virtues of Mrs Clinton's own claim to the presidency. ]
I have been following this whole campaign. I worry extremely about Obama. He doesn't seem to know...what he doesn't know.
Hillary Clinton knows more, she knows the ropes and she has the fortitude to get to what she needs to know and needs to do. She knows McCain enough to stand up to him.
Right now, we can't affort someone who is just too green for what needs to be done now. We need the Democratic Party in there. Recession, heavy fiscal problems seem to follow every Republican, and now we have to be sure the Iraq war is picked over very carefully and slowly removed ourselves from that whole thing. Al Quedia as well.
A lot of LIKE Obama, but a lot of us want someone more experienced like Hillary.