Clinton being a fool

[awaj]

I was checking www.theonion.com out and ran across this (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bill_clinton_screw_it_im_running)

I think it is funny how he thinks he can get around the Constitution. Just more proof that Hillary shouldn't even have considered running for presidency.

I have no idea if it is true as this is the first I've heard of it, but still funny.

[Ajmukon]

it is the Onion..
a political satire of news...
it is supposed to be funny...

[awaj]

It is, but is it true?

[Ajmukon]

probably not, but it does bring up an important point, who really is running ... Hillery or Clinton.....

[Ajmukon]

You should see..:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvpuT3aoypE
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its the Onion official Youtube channel...

[awaj]

that still doesn't answer my question. Has anyone heard of Clinton doing such a thing?(I wouldn't put it past him...)

[Budfred]

Of course not, he isn't an idiot...

Is your premise that the only way a woman could be ambitious and influential enough to run for president is that she is doing it to let her husband actually run the country?? It seems that Hillary is either criticized for being too cold or for being too feminine to be president... I can't see how she could be both... More importantly, I don't think the question would even be asked if she were male...

[awaj]

I was talking about Bill Clinton. The artical talked about how he was introducing her at some talk, and said that he was going to run for presidency.

[Budfred]

Yes, I know you were talking about Bill, but when you refer to that article which is about Hilary running and Bill campaigning for her and you suggest that he would do what the article attempted to humorously suggest he might do, you and Ajmukon are implying that Hilary is not running in her own right... Unfortunately, many Americans form their political opinions based on misunderstanding humor and these types of indirect accusations... This is even more of an issue when the candidate is not a white male...

[pop pop]

Geez guys...Don't be so serious.

The Onion is ALL satire. This is simply about poking fun at ambition and, in particular, Clinton ambition....that of the former president and Ms Clinton...along with all the BS that is going on in this run for the White House.

The Onion piece was meant to be funny...and, IMHO, it is. Both Clintons are ambitious...to the extreme. You don't succeed in politics without being so. I don't happen to be a Clinton fan....of either William Jefferson or Hillary. But I'll give the former president his due...he was and is a very good politician. Maybe the best campaigner of my lifetime...which is why he is so vocal right now...maybe inappropriately so at times. He loves the spotlight and wants back in it...even if it means riding his wifes coat tails to do it.

Nevertheless, he would not be able to get around what makes The Onion piece funny...namely the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. He is forbidden by law from ever holding the office of president again. Nobody can serve more than two terms. Unless there's a new amendment repealing the 22nd. Which ain't happening. The last pes to serve more than two was Roosevelt (4).

So Awaj...no, he never did it and would not, because he can't without looking stupid...which he isn't. The Onion piece is like a Saturday Night Live skit. A joke. Behind closed doors, though...I'm guessing the former pres definitely would like to run again.

If you can't laugh at politicians, who can you laugh at?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

[sassie05]

OK, that was funny.

I'm no fan of Billary, either.

[Paul Komski]

If you can't laugh at politicians, who can you laugh at?Well put.

Politicians have, for centuries - maybe millennia, been the butt of satire - so nothing new about The Onion there. Any individual or group that set themselves up as examples of probity or self-importance are going to find themselves such targets and, for those in public life, quite valid targets in my view; and however commonly Americans form their political opinions based on misunderstanding humor. What an indictment.