dud
― hunangarage, Monday, 14 March 2016 05:16 (eight years ago) link
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
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 20 May 2016 23:26 (eight years ago) link
insert hooker joke here
seriously though, Quality Inn is the way to go, Bill OTM there
― ejemplo (crüt), Saturday, 21 May 2016 03:18 (eight years ago) link
When he wakes, he often makes coffee for himself in his room.
well who wouldn't
they put it right there
― j., Saturday, 21 May 2016 04:20 (eight years ago) link
I never use the in-room coffee machine
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 21 May 2016 05:29 (eight years ago) link
you're never gonna be president with a prima donna attitude like that
― j., Saturday, 21 May 2016 05:42 (eight years ago) link
whatever it takes to derail the '16 Expresshttp://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
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 21 May 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
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
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 June 2016 16:14 (seven years ago) link
"inexplicable Dem love for him" you mean. No liberal I know does.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 June 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
Is this where exiles from the vile election thread gather?
― Iago Galdston, Monday, 6 June 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
well, based on the author of the revive, it's where vile exiles of the election thread gather. vexiles, if you will.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
and morbs’s strawman has got to be reaching wicker-man size by now; i’m surprised he can fit it in his brain
― wizzz! (amateurist), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:20 (seven years ago) link
DUD
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:27 (seven years ago) link
Saying "blue lives matter" on stage tonight following the mothers who spoke, what a piece of shit.
Did he use that phrase?
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:29 (seven years ago) link
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
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
directly before that he said something about how African Americans feeling safe from the cops so whatever, give him a pass
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:33 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:36 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:37 (seven years ago) link
He's out of touch, which is why we haven't seen him much on the campaign trail
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
he's clearly not well
― frogbs, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:41 (seven years ago) link
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/135553/bill-clinton-took-part-dnc-speech-memoir
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
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.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 04:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 07:34 (seven years ago) link
Yeah that was slippery and gross as well, same as the statement about African Americans but worse
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 13:56 (seven years ago) link
this is not his era. he is a 70 year old center-right politician from arkansas.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
is it just me or is "change maker" a really clunky and awful phrase to keep using in a speech?
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
Not just you. I felt the same way, strongly.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
he was trying to shake loose the perception of her as the "establishment" candidate
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
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.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
she would be rad at that i am sure, if overqualified
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
"agent of change" would have been 10x more clunky
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
changeling
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:35 (seven years ago) link
Why is "she makes change" a good theme at all for tying together all these otherwise somewhat disparate stories?
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
yeah i was really surprised "changemaker" was like the headline noun.
changeifyer
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
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
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
She's a getter doner. Get r done.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 17:05 (seven years ago) link
― 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.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
yep
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 17:16 (seven years ago) link
Not everyone appreciated the former president’s lingering over his early attraction to the 23-year-old Hillary Rodham. Rachel Maddow, the MSNBC host,called it “shocking and rude,” and suggested it diminished Mrs. Clinton’s many accomplishments.“It was a controversial way to start, honestly, talking about the girl, a girl, leading with this long story about him being attracted to an unnamed girl and thinking about whether he was starting something he couldn’t finish, building her whole political story, for the whole first half of the speech around her marriage to him,” Ms. Maddow said.But Mr. Clinton clearly wanted to tell Mrs. Clinton’s story through the lens of their courtship and 40-year marriage.This was an audacious strategy, given that their marriage is one of the most complicated and contentious in modern politics. One of his fiercest declarations — “she will never quit when the going gets tough, she will never quit on you” — could not help but conjure up his history of infidelities. In doing so, he humanized a marriage that has baffled many Americans while also reminding people of his philandering and her compromises.
“It was a controversial way to start, honestly, talking about the girl, a girl, leading with this long story about him being attracted to an unnamed girl and thinking about whether he was starting something he couldn’t finish, building her whole political story, for the whole first half of the speech around her marriage to him,” Ms. Maddow said.
But Mr. Clinton clearly wanted to tell Mrs. Clinton’s story through the lens of their courtship and 40-year marriage.
This was an audacious strategy, given that their marriage is one of the most complicated and contentious in modern politics. One of his fiercest declarations — “she will never quit when the going gets tough, she will never quit on you” — could not help but conjure up his history of infidelities. In doing so, he humanized a marriage that has baffled many Americans while also reminding people of his philandering and her compromises.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
the hilliad will go down near the top all-time in the annals of first gentlemen nomination speeches i would bet. i didn't know he still had it in him, and judging by those shaking hands there may not be much left. but you go billy boy!
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 27 July 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bill-clintons-nearly-18-million-job-as-honorary-chancellor-of-a-for-profit-college/2016/09/05/8496db42-655b-11e6-be4e-23fc4d4d12b4_story.html
poor guy, clearly not well
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
I've admittedly been feeling a particular kind of disillusioned rage about Bill Clinton lately that can come only from realizing that your parents' basis for loving a politician, and presenting him to you as a great and benevolent figure, boiled down to being of the same generation, being in awe of his charisma, and sharing an enjoyment of Fleetwood Mac. This hollow, opportunistic fucking rapist is the political hero of my parents' generation and it just speaks to how empty our politics got in the past several decades.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
tbh he probably only liked one Fleetwood Mac tune
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Not going to stan for this education factory mogul but the article says his company "has purchased financially struggling colleges and vocational schools and improved management while boosting profits through expanding enrollment." Which doesn't exactly make him Snidely Whiplash?
"Laureate’s campuses are fully accredited and offer graduating students valid diplomas. Compared with other universities, including its for-profit competitors, Laureate has a relatively low percentage of students who default on their loans, seen as an indicator of student financial success after graduation. A 2012 Senate report on for-profit colleges said that Laureate’s flagship U.S. school, Walden University, was the best of 30 campuses studied and that students there generally 'fared well.'"
Annnnd soooo... ??
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
Hang on are these reporters insinuating that a corporation has secured a Big Name to sit on their board act as honorary chancellor do next to nothing in order to boost its profile???
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 6 September 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link