Clinton says wife a 'world-class genius' - Yahoo! News

Clinton says wife a 'world-class genius' - Yahoo! News: "WOLFEBORO, N.H. - Former President Clinton says his wife is a 'world-class genius' when it comes to improving the lives of others.
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Clinton stuck mostly to familiar themes in two hour-long appearances Thursday, describing at length what he views as the nation's biggest challenges. Nearly 15 minutes into his first speech, he added almost as an afterthought that 'everything I'm saying here is my wife's position, not just mine.'

It was his third trip to New Hampshire in little more than a month, and the visit came the day before Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton was to return to the Granite State for two days of campaigning.

Calling the ability to help others the most important quality in a president, Clinton first compared the successes of his administration in creating jobs and other areas to the failures of the Bush administration before finally turning the focus to his wife, a New York senator.

'The reason she ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in life, whether it was in elected office or not, that she is a world-class genius in making positive changes in other people's lives,' he said.

Change vs. experience has been a theme of the Democratic presidential race, and"

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.

This is so sad. When Bill ran the first time, he/they tried to package HRC this way .. presenting her as the #1 candidate for the Supreme Court etc. In fact HRC may or may not be super bright but her career until Bill became Prexy was that of an Hiswife. She was a rainmaker, a deal broker with connections to the Gov.

I do NOT begrudge her this role. I believe in greece, graft and grismisch. If you do not lube the machine it will break down! Nor has anything I have seen smelled even faintly rotten about her time in that role and, as her Hubby says, she di use the position to make rain for the family group she worked with. Marian Wright Edelman is a very impressive leader and her association with HRC is a plus. STILL equating the rainmaker with a brilliant attorney is about as far out as her claiming BO is a muslim because he went to a "secular madrasah."

I did try to follow through and look into HRC's supposed legal talents. In fact the bulk of her work in the private domain was at best as a deal maker. She did not, as far as I can see, play a significant role in courtroom law or in legal reform. She might make a fine Justice of the Supreme Court but I sincerely doubt the ABA considered Ms. C as being on its short list.

The point is now Bill and Hill are back at painting themselves as superheroes. Vote for her and he will be back ..this time for free!!!!!!!!! Vote for her and one gets all of HIS connections and all of his baggage too I suppose. Bill and co. are trying to paint Mr. Obama with the faint bush of inexperience. Does rainmaker count as experience for HRC? If not she has her Senate record to hold up vs. his Senate record and record in Illinois as a senator and civil rights worker. Oh yeh, one of them was editor of the Harvard Law Review!

So some advice in the off chance Bill or Hill read SJ. Lay of the genous juice. I would be more impressed with Hillary's record without this hype.

Maureen Dowd's Comments:

Bill is staying up late strategizing and recasting her message and speeches. But he’s off his game on the trail, making clumsy mistakes like his remark — bound to be shot down by Poppy Bush — that Hillary would send 41 and 42 around the world to restore prestige lost by 43.

Hillary advisers noted that when Bill was asked by a supporter in South Carolina what his wife’s No. 1 priority would be, he replied: C’est moi! “The first thing she intends to do is to send me ...” he began.

He got so agitated with Charlie Rose — ranting that reporters were “stenographers” for Obama — that his aides tried to stop the interview.

He also got in the way of her message with stretchers about opposing the Iraq war from the start, and — in a slap at Obama — deciding not to run in ’88 because he lacked experience. Truth is, he didn’t run for fear of bimbo eruptions.

While making a speech in Iowa, The Associated Press’s Ron Fournier reported, Bill used the word “I” 94 times in 10 minutes, while mentioning “Hillary” just seven times. At a London fund-raiser, one Hillaryite said, it took him nearly half an hour to mention her.

As the Arkansas journalist Max Brantley told the Billary biographer Sally Bedell Smith, “He’s always evangelizing for the church of Bill.”

It’s hard to feel sorry for Hillary because the very logic of her campaign leads right to Bill. When she speaks of her “experience,” she is referring not to the Senate but to the White House, thereby making her campaign a plebiscite on the ’90s.

Running this way, she is essentially asking people to like her if they liked him. Whether she knows it or not, this is a coattails strategy. It’s almost as if she’s offering herself to Clinton supporters as the solution to the problem of the 22nd Amendment.