Bill and Hillary (my emphasis) are looking at polls that show them (only) 7 or 8 points ahead of Jeanine... |
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say. |
(Bush) can get all the money he wants out of Congress 'cause of this disaster, the people will be solidly behind him, the media will cover it like crazy and he's gonna look like Santa Claus. |
[But now, in January 1998, the danger was greater -- and the stakes so much higher -- than they had ever been. Over the phone, Dick Morris suggested to the President there was a way out of his current dilemma.] Look, Bill, I think the American people will forgive you, ... Why don't you let me take a poll on this? We'll see what the mood is out there. |
[For this question, the president consulted others. According to Dick Morris, the president and he talked on Jan. 21. Mr. Morris suggested that the president publicly confess. The president replied] But what about the legal thing? You know, the legal thing? You know. Starr and perjury and all. ... Well, we just have to win, then. |
[Rice's claim that running for president is not] what I want to do with my life, ... falls far short of the standard formulation for declining a nomination, which was set by General Sherman in 1884 when he said: 'If nominated, I refuse to run. If elected, I refuse to serve.' |
[the people] are in charge. |
a female speech ... a caring speech |
a true, true liberal. |
All she has to do is to say 'I'm enough like Hillary and my full-time is better than her part-time.' |
And I said, 'The one thing you've got to avoid is getting trapped like (former President Richard) Nixon into a rigid posture of denial because that gives you no flexibility, no room to maneuver and you get stuck, ... And presidents only get killed when they get stuck. But on the other hand, if you play this outside the foul lines and you really let it out, people are going to cut you slack on it.' |
And then I would raise another question: Didn't Hillary jump out of the box opposing this port deal because she knew of her husband's vulnerability and wanted to get out ahead of the story? I was talking to a source of mine who's very close to the Clintons about seven or eight months ago and the source said that he's all the time going back and forth to Dubai and getting deeper and deeper into that relationship. She (Hillary) was worried about that and its political impact. |
Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam – that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view. |
Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination. |
But what about the legal thing? You know, the legal thing? You know. Starr and perjury and all. Well, we just have to win, then. |