Bill Clinton Stumps for Hillary; No Mention of “Character”

Former President of the United States Bill Clinton now says the gloves are off. He is 1000% behind his wife Hillary, the Democratic Presidential Hopeful.

Yet in a November 2007 address, he made only seven references to his wife and used the word ‘I’ 94 times.

Note to Hillary: It is all about Him.

Also note that the media’s nickname for Bill and Hillary is “Billery.” Not “HillaBill.”

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY)(L) is joined by her daughter Chelsea (C) and her husband former President Bill Clinton at a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, December 31, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young

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So I listened with great interest to Former President of the United States Bill Clinton’s speech on New Year’s Eve.

Bill’s speech highlights Hillary’s greatest failure during the Big Guy’s presidency: health care. According to The Guardian newspaper in the UK: “Failure is not usually an attribute used to sell American presidents but that is how Bill Clinton is pitching his wife to Iowa voters in the final days before the state caucuses. Hillary Clinton has a crucial quality for an occupant of the White House, the former president argues: the strength to carry on after getting it wrong.”

Well, isn’t that special.

The former president’s speech about his wife is an hour-long lesson on the challenges of the White House and his wife’s accomplishments.

What the former president does, mostly, is to emphasize his own greatness as president even as he tears down the current occupant of the Oval Office, who is, by the way, at war. Hillary, it seems to some observers, is just the tool to draw a crowd.

We also noticed the many things Big Bill doesn’t say. There is absolutely no mention whatsoever of the words “character,” “ethics,” “morality,” or “standards.” While the Republicans insist that “character counts,” you can’t count Bill Clinton saying the word once.

Brian Snyder/Reuters

Interesting. But no surprise.

By John E. Carey
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Bill Clinton Speaks Out For Hillary

By Suzanne Goldenberg in Greenfield, Iowa
The Guardian (UK)
January 1, 2008

Past failures are a recipe for success, says Hillary’s ‘number one supporter’ Failure is not usually an attribute used to sell American presidents but that is how Bill Clinton is pitching his wife to Iowa voters in the final days before the state caucuses. Hillary Clinton has a crucial quality for an occupant of the White House, the former president argues: the strength to carry on after getting it wrong.

For some, this makes a compelling argument, coming from the only living Democrat to have occupied the Oval Office for two terms. Who better equipped to offer a lesson on the makings of a president than Bill Clinton? Yesterday (DEC31) saw a new variant of the Clinton pas de deux: Bill on a campaign swing from the west of the state and Hillary from the east, with a planned late-night reunion at a New Year’s Eve party in Des Moines.

The Clinton running for president offers a brisk 20-minute address on policy. The Clinton who has already been president delivers an hour-long lesson on the challenges of the White House and his wife’s accomplishments.

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