Excerpts from the New Yorker's profile of Bill Clinton that apparently they refuse to put online
Clinton on Rove: "I am sick of Karl Rove's bullshit."
Clinton on the Kerry campaign: "Like a deer caught in the headlights."
Clinton on watching the World Cup Final in Berlin: "I'm totally psyched for this."
Clinton on the vote to go into Iraq: "I'm sick and tired of being told that if you voted for authorization you voted for the war. It was a mistake, and I would have made it, too....The administration did not shoot straight on the nuclear issue or on Saddam's supposed ties to Al Qaeda prior to 9/11."
Chelsea on her father's handling of the AIDS crisis after writing a thesis on the subject at Oxford: "I gave you a grade," she told her father. "What did I get?" Clinton asked. "C-plus." Her rationale: "You didn't do nearly enough. But you did more than anyone else in the world."
Clinton on dying: "I've reached an age now where it doesn't matter whatever happens to me...I just don't want anyone to die before their time anymore."
Hillary on that weird NYT story about their marriage: "I'm endlessly fascinated by people's fascination with us, but that's not something I'm going to spend much time on."
Bill on that weird NYT story about their marriage: "I think it got pretty well the response that it deserved."
Apparently, Hillary Clinton loves giraffes; accordingly, her husband bought her a giant wooden one which Remnick estimated was "seven, eight feet tall." (The NYT is no doubt working out the symbolism.)
Clinton on WaPo's Susan Schmidt: "A Xerox machine for Ken Starr."
Clinton on his inaction in Rwanda, which he said was the worst foreign-policy mistake of his administration: "We never even had a staff meeting on it." (Note: Clinton said that was "why I went there and apologized in '98"; he said the Rwandans said he was the only one who had apologized.)
Remnick on Clinton's relationship with Ron Burkle: Apparently, Clinton flies on his plane.
Remnick on Ron Burkle's alleged penchant for models and youthful plane guests: Er, nothing, actually. Hey, 23 pages doesn't give you much space.
Clinton on puncutality, as expressed in being 15 minutes late to meet with Nelson Mandela, per Remnick: "Astonishingly, he will make anyone wait for him, even a global patriarch who is presumably his moral hero."
Clinton on the Bush administration: "It just makes me mad...I just wish I were there trying to articulate an alternative vision."
On the fact that he is not: "You have to bloom where you're planted."
My thoughts about Clinton as the President: When Clinton lied, no one died.
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History will show a human President with a heart to help the American people that were forgotten. We'll look back at the good days as our President tried to bridge racism and treated all people equal. Our country was not in debt. We were loved and respected by world leaders. The world could believe the word of our President. Funny but true kids had summer jobs paid by the govenment. We could smile and we had hope, families had vacations, college grads had jobs and help was given to students who wanted to go to college. My daughter with the help of the Clinton programs went to College in England.
Those days are gone for current students under the Bush plan American student are on their own and Bush has our govenment paying for Iraq/Afgan students to go to our colleges for free. We give them housing and all their needs are paid for with taxpayers money yet Ameerican student are left out. We spend 2 Billion dollars a day in Iraq and now we educate their children in our colleges. Talk about American children left behind that is the Bush policy.
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