DISQUS

kenr · 1 year ago

Mr. Dallek:

Right on the mark. Bill Clinton is debasing not only his currency, but also that of all future former presidents.

As a Democrat, my greater concern is that he is providing grist for the Republican mill in the general election should Sen. Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination. It is one thing to worship the "bitch-goddess success"; few if any seekers of our nation's highest office don't. It is quite another to make this worship a public spectacle.

That is the line the Bill Clinton has crossed in the past few weeks, damaging Hillary's prospects in both the primaries and the general election. I hope he takes your counsel to heart.

--Ken Riley
Mexico City

dkorer · 1 year ago

Mr. Dallek,

If Bill Clinton honestly believes his wife is the most qualified, then what should he wait for? I didn't see the outrage when First Lady Barbara Bush described Hillary is a word that ryhmes with "witch". Elections are hard and difficult and mistakes in judgement and tone can be made. The press dislikes Hillary just as they disliked Al Gore. Do you think America still wants to have a beer with George Bush? I thought so!

msfitz · 1 year ago

Just curious: has Mr. Dallek endorsed a candidate?

dusty1215 · 1 year ago

Former President Clinton is looking like a fool lately, and frankly..it bothers me that, as mentioned above, it could come back to haunt Hillary in the general election. If the Hillary advisor's actually believe Billy can run his piehole and it won't affect Hillary..they are crazy.

Also, I wonder how much Bush43 will take part in the campaigning after the Republican's anoint their candidate..or more importantly..will the candidate want Bush43's help.

treadway123 · 1 year ago

I've completely jumped off the Clinton train. Was a fool to get on it. Guess I was desperate for the country to get relief we so sorely needed. I think most of us have come to our sensens now. I'm hopeing for a OBAMA AN EDWARDS ticket, now. I like Mccain! But he's from the old world order, and can't see him running the new high tech. world of today with old ideas's. But the old guy has guts at 75 years old, give hilm that or is it 74. Can't remember what that MOVIE STAR SAID-----------------NOW WHO WAS THAT HA HA. they do seem to think we listen to them don.t they. Bill just ruined his ex-presidency place in Hisory of haveing any sound judgement and crediable actions,distroyed his future standing among the Demacratic party. I'm sorry to hear that, even as bad as his moral behavior was terrible inthe what house when he was president, he did lead this country into some peaceful years.

p_lukasiak · 1 year ago

What I find exceeding odd is the beltway's assumption that Bill Clinton's "elder stateman standing" is a priority for him. For the last seven years, Bill Clinton has been the party's number one fundraising attraction, and has remained a partisan lightning rod -- and at the age of 61, he's showing no signs of slowing down, and or any interest in playing the role of "that old guy whose opinion nobody but Broder and Brooks cares about."



Indeed, this commentary is just more "Clinton-bashing"... it really doesn't matter what Bill Clinton does, he'll get criticized for it. If he remained aloof from the campaign, and allowed himself and his wife to be attacked without responding, Dallak would be writing about how Bill Clinton was far too obsessed with his own legacy to participate in the campaign.



(and BTW, Obama's record is not that of someone who has been consisently opposed to the war in Iraq. Compare his public statements and votes with a Democrat like Dennis Kucinich, who has been consistently opposed, and the contrast could not be clearer.)

tsimon · 1 year ago

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herewegoagain · 1 year ago

How many ex-Presidents of the United States have had the opportunity to campaign for their wife for President of the United States?



Which is more important today?



Mr. Clinton's elder statesman standing or Mrs. Clinton's campaign to be the (first woman) President?



I don't see a contest here.

elizawatch · 1 year ago

I had no idea that anybody thought of Bill Clinton as an "elder" or as a "statesman." Is he 70 yet? And my definition of "statesman" is not "A male person who lives in a state."