Bill Clinton: Classic or Dud?

not sure why more than doubling funding for aids/hiv research or more than tripling funding for aids/hiv care or establishing a permanent office of aids research at the nih is 'lousy' but whatever

The Clinton administration sabotaged HIV prevention and treatment efforts in other ways. One concerned intellectual property rights controlling the use of generic medications around the world. Near the end of Clinton’s presidency, we learned from a leaked State Department memo that former vice president Al Gore had exerted pressure on South Africa to rescind legislation allowing use of generic anti-retrovirals at a vastly lower cost, rather than paying U.S. companies their huge markups. Gore’s senior campaign staff included several people who had been lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry.

mere bag o' shells to Captain Save-a-Bubbas who can't read, apparently

"awesome communicator"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/george-w-bush-bill-clinton-joke-around-like-old-buddies-1.2759571

whatever it takes to derail the '16 Express

http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio-1681039971

Will his tombstone say "Felt your Pain?"

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/13/bill_clintons_odious_presidency_thomas_frank_on_the_real_history_of_the_90s/

dud

More often than not, the ex-president finds himself staying in hotels with nothing resembling a presidential suite; he typically overnights in Holiday Inn Expresses and Quality Inns. His aides say he's the least prissy member of his small traveling party—caring only that his shower has good water pressure and that the TV has premium cable so that he might watch San Andreas or one of the Fast & Furious movies before he drifts off to sleep. When he wakes, he often makes coffee for himself in his room.

http://www.gq.com/story/bill-clinton-health-trump-and-hillary

insert hooker joke here

seriously though, Quality Inn is the way to go, Bill OTM there

When he wakes, he often makes coffee for himself in his room.

well who wouldn't

they put it right there

I never use the in-room coffee machine

you're never gonna be president with a prima donna attitude like that

whatever it takes to derail the '16 Express
http://gawker.com/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billio-1681039971
― touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, January 23, 2015 1:50 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They all seem so nice--especially Dershowitz

the inexplicable lib love for him is gonna get a severe test when he gets Trump elected. Hope for a fatal stroke before Labor Day.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/05/politics/bill-clinton-bernie-sanders-protesters/index.html

"inexplicable Dem love for him" you mean. No liberal I know does.

Is this where exiles from the vile election thread gather?

well, based on the author of the revive, it's where vile exiles of the election thread gather. vexiles, if you will.

and morbs’s strawman has got to be reaching wicker-man size by now; i’m surprised he can fit it in his brain

DUD

Saying "blue lives matter" on stage tonight following the mothers who spoke, what a piece of shit.

Did he use that phrase?

p sure he did, the quote was a little weird and I need to watch it again, but he also made it sound like african american men needed to make cops feel safe, if I heard correctly

directly before that he said something about how African Americans feeling safe from the cops so whatever, give him a pass

Ok, wait sorry he didn't actually use the phrase. He said:

"If you're a young African American disillusioned and afraid, we saw in Dallas how great our police officers can be, help us build a future where no one's afraid to walk outside, including the people who wear blue to protect our future."

Not quite as bad but I still do not like it. There was also some other weird "lives matter" moment but it was another confusing quote, will try to find it.

Some CNN panelist afterward was talking about how "important" it was that Bill reminded America that Hilary was once an "object of desire." Felt like this was the worst take of the night.

It just came off kind of like he was saying that young African Americans should help make the cops feel safer.

I'm also less inclined to give him a pass on his "lives matter" stuff because of that speech from earlier in the campaign.

He's out of touch, which is why we haven't seen him much on the campaign trail

he's clearly not well

https://newrepublic.com/minutes/135553/bill-clinton-took-part-dnc-speech-memoir

Bill did his job with that speech to the convention about Hillary. You don't have to like his approach to politics to know he is a master of bringing people along to the mindset he wants them to adopt. His mastery of the tools of rhetoric and oratory are evident to anyone who understands those tools.

Lots of backlash from Muslim Americans on Twitter about the 'if you are Muslim and love America and freedom we want you to stay here' comments as well.

Yeah that was slippery and gross as well, same as the statement about African Americans but worse

this is not his era. he is a 70 year old center-right politician from arkansas.

It felt like he was making these really awkward attempts to signal center-right leaning voters that he has their concerns at heart while also sort of sounding like he was taking the liberal position, and it didn't seem to me like it was working in either direction.

is it just me or is "change maker" a really clunky and awful phrase to keep using in a speech?

Not just you. I felt the same way, strongly.

he was trying to shake loose the perception of her as the "establishment" candidate

Saying she's "one of the best change makers" makes me picture her at a cash register deftly flipping through bills and tossing out coins.

she would be rad at that i am sure, if overqualified

"agent of change" would have been 10x more clunky

changeling

Why is "she makes change" a good theme at all for tying together all these otherwise somewhat disparate stories?

yeah i was really surprised "changemaker" was like the headline noun.

changeifyer

maybe could have just said she changes things and done a huge long list of achievements built around repeating the word "change", until everyone just started chanting "change", "change", "change" for a while then eventually stopped.

Should just had John Waite run out and tear the roof down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsL-3fNOt0I

She's a getter doner. Get r done.

It just came off kind of like he was saying that young African Americans should help make the cops feel safer.

― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, July 26, 2016 11:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It came off to me like he knows exactly how the media works and knew that if he didn't acknowledge police murders that's all people would be talking about today.

yep