Bill says he once told Hillary: "You really should dump me and go back home...and run for office."

[jefferson_dem]

Clinton Says Hillary Was Always the One
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
Monday, December 10, 2007

Campaigning for his wife, former President Clinton says that when they were starting out he was so struck by her intellect and ability he once suggested she should just dump him and jump into her own political career.

That didn't happen, of course, and on Monday he gave an Iowa crowd his version of why it didn't.

"I thought it would be wrong for me to rob her of the chance to be what I thought she should be," said Clinton. "She laughed and said, 'First I love you and, second, I'm not going to run for anything, I'm too hardheaded.'"

Hillary Rodham Clinton is running now, and husband Bill was stumping for her in the 2008 campaign's leadoff caucus state — two days after rival Democrat Barack Obama got a full weekend's worth of attention by bringing in talk show queen Oprah Winfrey to campaign for him.

The former president opened a two-day swing through Iowa on behalf of his wife, packing nearly 500 people into a theater on the campus of Iowa State University.

"She has spent a lifetime as a change agent when she had the option to do other things," he said.

"I thought she was the most gifted person of our generation," said Clinton, who said he told her, "You know, you really should dump me and go back home to Chicago or go to New York and take one of those offers you've got and run for office."

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"It's one thing to have good intentions; it is another thing entirely to change people's lives," Clinton said. "She's the best non-incumbent I have ever had a chance to vote for. In my whole life I've never met anyone like her."

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/12/10/politics/p125034S92.DTL

[niceypoo]

1. And one other time he stunk up the bathroom...

...knowing she could barely hold it...

[kimmerspixelated]

3. LOL!

[ElizabethDC]

2. The original headline was nicer

but I think it's a nice story anyway - Bill has clearly always recognized Hillary's potential.

[Fredda Weinberg]

5. She recognized his. Remember, women couldn't hope for election

This is a delightful tale and it'll be a shame if anyone brings their own agenda.

[jefferson_dem]

6. Yeah, I edited the headline. "The one"?

Was ist das?

[MADem]

8. I'm guessing it is a riff on the Winfrey speech at her rallies for Senator Obama.

Wasn't she calling him "The One" as well?

[Fredda Weinberg]

4. I've been thinking how I differ from other DUers. I have lived the family plan

and don't resent it. In fact, everyone around me is functional and generally cheerful. What more could you want from life?

So when I went to work for HRC's campaign, it was no different from the decade I spent caring for my parents in their own home, returning between assistance and independence. That's not a normal thing to do these days, but I was prepared for the responsibility and discharged my obligations.

Now it gets fun. I can enjoy this campaign like no other. In a sense, it is my snowball - and if seems to be out of hell, that says plenty about you - because for those of us, unlike most DUers, apparently - we are comfortable voluntarily associating ourselves in enduring causes for meaningful purposes. It's rare, but admirable, hence my participation.

Let Bill vent ... it's a view into an intimate relationship I understand.

[MADem]

9. We have an "old school" family as well.

We keep the geezers around, no "old age homes" and no "babysitters from outside" either. We take care of each other, if someone is in a fix, we shore 'em up, and overall, we realize that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Everyone has their priorities, I guess. Ours is 'us!'

[Beacool]

7. Bill has said that in the past.

That's the main reason for his attraction to her, her intelligence, her passion and commitment to social causes which mirrored his own. They are very similar in many respects, even if their personalities are different. People who know them well say that their discussions are usually over policy issues, not banal things. My only beef with Bill is that he has caused a lot of pain to Hillary and also Chelsea with his sexual addiction. I sure do hope that in the last 10 years he has dealt with the issue.

[demigoddess]

10. I heard him talk years ago when she first got elected to the senate and he

fairly glowed with pride when he called her 'my senator'. He gave some great speeches to classes and also I heard an interview where he talked quite frankly about the heavy therapy they went through right after the "monica" thing. While the republicans have been making jokes, he was working hard to keep his marriage together and straighten himself out. Republicans do not do that they just get a divorce and marry their mistress.