Hillary to appoint Bill 'cheerleader for America' role as roving ambassador

[T_i_B]

Source: UK Independent

The question that has dogged Hillary Clinton for years - long before she even announced her intention to run for the White House - is what role would be played by her husband, that mercurial, impulsive and unpredictable former president, if she won? After all, he does have something of a history.

Now we know the answer. Mrs Clinton has revealed that if she wins the battle to be president, her husband will be dispatched as far away from the White House as possible; his role will be roaming ambassador with a remit to repair America's tattered image around the world. "I can't think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?" the Democratic senator from New York told a crowd in Iowa, where she was campaigning this weekend. "He has said he would do anything I asked him to do. I would put him to work."

Mrs Clinton's plan has both positive and negative points. Setting her husband off with a global mission would give him some focus while allowing her to concentrate on running the country. It would also help her to dismiss criticisms that he was meddling in affairs of state. And it would also allow Mrs Clinton to shape the presidency as her project, rather than it being just the third instalment of the Clinton saga.

But the plan also has drawbacks. Most bluntly, who can predict precisely what her husband will do once he gets to the other side of the world - should she be elected? One thing is certain; an army of conservatives and right-wingers who hate Mr Clinton will be scrutinising his every move and watching for a mistake, whether it be as theatrical as the Monica Lewinsky affair - which resulted in his near impeachment by Congress - or something much more mundane.

Read more: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2474398.ece

[youngdem]

1. Who the fuck wrote this article? Babs?

Jesus. The Big Dog is a lot of things, but impulsive, mercurial and unpredictable really aren't any of them. The only way I can see him being 'unpredictable' is perhaps when he runs circles around your ass on a given issue.

What a bitter, partisan article. Surprised it came from the Independent.

I don't think it is terribly flattering for the first serious woman candidate in American presidential history to rely so heavily (in policy)on her husband when she is trailing, because it looks like she can't do it herself, but the description in the article is spiteful.

"the Clinton saga"? :wtf:

[truthisfreedom]

2. The Big Dog is so much more popular than the present "president" that he can do no wrong.

Hillary will do fine.

[marylanddem]

3. Last time I saw Bill he was with George Bush, Sr.

I wish Bill and his wife would just go away - If he had kept it in his pants, Gore wouldn't have felt it necessary to
run away from him with the reprehensible Lieberman as V.P. candidate (because at the time Liebermann was so self-righteously critical of Bill) and we wouldn't have wound up with the idiot in chief we now have. So thanks, Bill. We owe it all to you.

[William769]

4. Yea it's always Clintons fault.

:eyes:

[durrrty libby]

5. I watched Bill on Larry King last night.

He could easily be our ambassador to the world.

Too bad you don't get it. You are the big loser here.

[rodeodance]

6. contrast this to our current ambassador!!---Karen Hughes!!

[54anickel]

7. Heh-heh, now THAT gives some perspective to this discussion! Thanks for that. n/t

[lutefisk]

8. How about UN Ambassador or Secretary of State or ???

The role of "roaming ambassador" sounds like one of Miss America's duties.

[hughee99]

10. Can't be Secretary of State, not sure about UN Ambassador.

After JFK, they put in a nepotism law about appointing family members to cabinet posts.

[lutefisk]

11. I didn't know that - thanks...n/t

[bpeale]

9. boy, hillary will do ANYTHING to get elected, won't she?