Comments on: Hillary Clinton for President

By: Hendry.robert

Hendry.robert — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:03:50 +0000

Boris,

A clouding of judgment seems to have occurred.

There are a number of self help books available aimed at helping those who have momentarily fallen for the wrong woman. One I would recommend, “Help! I have The Hots For Mrs Clinton”

I do understand because for sure a powerful woman can be rather sexy, but no, Mrs clinton will steal your liberties faster than Mcbroon and Blour ever could and that is not sexy.

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By: PRAVDA

PRAVDA — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:57:41 +0000

Right on Boris! She’s by far the most fanciable of the ones mentioned. Well … perhaps not to a LibDem politician.

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By: James Dunlop

James Dunlop — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:56:22 +0000

The 42nd president may look good when considering the 43rd, but his Rwanda policy (do nothing about genocide), and his facilitation of the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo’s Serbs (many of whom had been our WW2 allies) make him difficult to support unless the alternatives are dire.

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By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:08:56 +0000

George W certainly had a vision, but perhaps our snobby European negativity towards Uncle Sam and intellectual arrogance are as much to blame for his failure to realise his vision as his brash Texan mannerisms and poor choice of words.

No, it’s not snobby to think that the president of the United States should:

a. know how to act like a civilized human being
b. have half a brain in his head
c. have some knowledge of the world around him (clearing brush on the ranch doesn’t count)

George Bush is a stupid and — perhaps more importantly — gullible man, too easily led around like a goat on a leash by his handlers while they do the dirty work behind the scenes. I, for one, am ashamed that he is the public face of my country to the world.

I can’t help thinking how things would have been different if we hadn’t all so rudely laughed at, and mocked George W in the first year or so of his presidency.

He deserved it, Steven! The man is a dim bulb! The lead up to the 2000 election in the US media was an exercise in freezing out the intelligent (but perceived as cold or wooden) Al Gore in favor of “well, I’d like to have a beer with him!” George Bush. Seriously — more than once was that reference made!

Politics is not — or at least shouldn’t always — be about personality, it should be about capability and intellect. I’ll take a Clinton, any Clinton, over Bush any day.

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By: crystal cobweb

crystal cobweb — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:51:58 +0000

JFK wasn’t quite the sleazeball that is Bill Clinton (and his women were classier). More importantly, he was assassinated – which sent him sky-high into the hero/martyr popularity stakes.

As for the loves and hates of the American people – their polarisation is schizoid at best.

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By: k

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:47:02 +0000

Louise,
JFK is not exactly known for keeping his pants on yet he is loved in the US, so it seems odd that people would be ashamed of Bill Clinton, whose trouserless escapades were not nearly as bad as JFK’s were reported as being. Besides, who cares about one very mild sex scandal, Bill Clinton was a good president, and Hilary Clinton promises to be just as good. The quotes Julian Cox uses against Hilary Clinton seem to me to support her instead.
And I fail to see why Boris should apoligize for supporting her. What next make all American votes registar who they vote for so if they vote for the loser they can be rounded up and made to aplogize to the supporters of the winner.

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By: fnusnuank

fnusnuank — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:34:57 +0000

You’ll be supporting Brown next, sigh.

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By: Steven_L

Steven_L — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:42:25 +0000

“Maybe this article is one of your faux pas moments and you will come back and apologise like you did the the citizens of Liverpool?” (Louise)

I seem to remember Boris exclaiming that there would be ‘no more apologies’ to rapturous aplause at the 2006 Tory conference. Quite right too!

I never apologise (and never would) for venturing an opinion into the fray, why exactly should Boris have to apologise for pioneering, and providing the medium for such debates?

If you don’t like the opinion that Boris, or anyone else, has expressed feel free to say so, but don’t expect an apology!

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By: ginger-cookie

ginger-cookie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:55:11 +0000

One assumes this article came about because Boris thought this idea was rather original and clever:

“not because we necessarily want her for herself but because we want Bill in the role of First Husband”

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By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:33:24 +0000

Boris if you back Hillary I guess I won’t be backing you for Mayor because quite obviously you have, finally, taken leave of your senses. IF you haven’t noticed there are 3 or 4 (depending on whose counting) front runners on the Republican ticket. If you are basing your love of the Clinton’s on their battered marriage why not back Romney who has had only one beautiful, so far as we know, un-battered wife ?? Or is it because you have behaved in your marriage more like Bill then Mitt and it will make YOU feel more comfortable to have the philanderer back in the White House. Pre 9/11 cannot be compared to now ! How nieve are you? Clinton’s years ran so smoothly because he rode the economic coattails of Reagan, Bush 1 and Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America! I don’t know many people who were not ashamed to have a man like Bill and his inability to keep his pants on as America’s leader. Maybe this article is one of your faux pas moments and you will come back and apologise like you did the the citizens of Liverpool?

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