Slog - Comments on While it's Still Technically a Race http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race The Clinton-obsessed will want to be sure to check out the new Vanity Fair article on Bill Clinton. It provoked a nearly 2,500-word response from the Clinton camp yesterday, and today on the trail Bill Clinton "unleashed a salty stream of epithets" in order to describe his opinion of the article's author, Todd S. Purdum. What's in the piece? Here's the teaser: Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton’s post–White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife’s campaign, to the private-jetting around with a... Copyright 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0800 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:57:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe This gets me so hot for some reason. Mmm. Mmmmm. I love it when the tapeworm wiggles.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038267 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038267 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:13:47 -0800 Comment by lostboy Huffington Post:
Bill Clinton today unleashed a salty stream of epithets to describe ... Todd Purdum, calling him "sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy" and a "scumbag."

They call that salty?

]]> lostboy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038280 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:43:02 -0800 Comment by Julie "skirt-chasing".... ugh. That phrase sucks even if you're using it to convey the mentality of the "posse".

Normally I would read this article right awy, but for some reason, it just seems kind of trashy.

]]> Julie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038281 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038281 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:43:10 -0800 Comment by elenchos This would be a non-issue for a male candidate whose wife was flying around the world in the private jet of a wealthy woman who had become pregnant by someone else's husband. Can Hillary just NOT get a break?

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038282 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038282 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:43:34 -0800 Comment by brandon isn't vanity fair known for their meticulous fact checking? and is it really difficult to believe that bill clinton is [still] a womanizing douchebag? or... maybe there's a vast LEFT-wing conspiracy working against them now. man, those clintons just can't win!

]]> brandon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038283 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038283 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:52:04 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Whatever the amount of conjecture and so on, Clinton opens himself up to it by hanging out with these creeps. It's the business stuff that gets me, not the skirts. These are some very sleazy people.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038285 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038285 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:52:39 -0800 Comment by Bont That's not the salty stream Bill is used to unleashing.

]]> Bont http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038289 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038289 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:27:37 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Bill's making a serious mistake getting this angry over it in public. He should have released a statement decrying the piece and then refrained from emitting a stream of epithets of any flavor. Number one: he's supposed to be acting presidential. Number two: getting that red in the face over it just increases suspicion.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038290 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038290 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:41:20 -0800 Comment by tsm Bill Clinton is just red-faced over anything and everything these days. Whatever happened to the easygoing good ol' boy, spooging all over his staff?

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038296 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038296 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:57:39 -0800 Comment by Odrama So is Michele Obama fair game now for people to scrutinize

]]> Odrama http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038315 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038315 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:50:28 -0800 Comment by O-dra-ma So Michele Obama is fair game now for people to scrutinize.

]]> O-dra-ma http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038319 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038319 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:53:46 -0800 Comment by tsm Keep trying, @10/11. (But figure out how to post only once first.)

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038325 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038325 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:35:25 -0800 Comment by SeMe man, im so over the skirt chasing crap. eli your coverage has been fat and very informative. this bill clinton bashing is not news, is yellow journalism at its worst.

arent u above this bill clinton likes chicks crap?

anyway, senator obama on to the white house!! im so glad this will soon be over.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038327 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038327 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:43:15 -0800 Comment by Andy Niable I don't want him back in the WH any more than anyone else, but isn't Bill-bashing soooooo 1998?

]]> Andy Niable http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038329 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038329 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:46:52 -0800 Comment by Odrama "obama on to the white house"
Dream on; no way he'll win the Nov. election.

]]> Odrama http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038330 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038330 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:00:12 -0800 Comment by why'd he just wait for the MICHELLE HUESSEIN OBAMA vids where she calls y'all WHITIE and trashes whites yo. FUCK Y'ALL. HUSSEN OBAMA is gonna CRASH AND BURN cus y'all gonna not elect Hills, and it's all yo's fault for electing a MUSLIM with a WHITIE AMERICA HATING BITCH for a wife.

]]> why'd he http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038331 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:04:32 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Good to hear from the all-important Youtube comments demographic, there, "why'd he". We'll, uh, keep it in mind.

Seme, the skirt-chasing stuff is just the tip of the iceberg. Clinton hangs with some VERY dubious "business" associates, and they have been under-scrutinized. That suspicious deal he did with Uzbekistan a while back is just the beginning.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038334 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038334 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:12:32 -0800 Comment by Just the Facts "There’s no actual allegation that Clinton has indeed been chasing skirts or doing anything illegal-"
Quick, get it on Slog!!!!

]]> Just the Facts http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038340 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038340 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:35:08 -0800 Comment by elenchos I was just reading about Bill Clinton's head-spinning-around tourette's fit in reaction to the mob of former henchmen talking smack about him on background, and weighing that against the full on assault the Bush White House is making against their former flunky who can't shut up, and it makes you wonder. With all that going on, Obama is the one with all the drama?

Obama looks pretty serene to me. It's over in the camps of the Bush-Clinton historical feud re-enactment club where all the teeth are being gnashed. It's like what if during the Civil War, the Civil War buffs started dressing up and replaying earlier battles? Yeah, I know.

Enough of all that.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038342 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038342 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:40:14 -0800 Comment by kelly He kind of reminds me these days of that old woman that lived in the merry go round in Mr. Roger's neighborhood; the one with the terribly red nose.

]]> kelly http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038343 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038343 2008 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:43:17 -0800 Comment by drewl Hey Jonah..... it ain't fucking 7:35am. It's 2:25am in MN. What time warp are you in? Your comments aren't enabled. You just trying to sleep in, but your auto posting fucked up? Busted, ya slacker! How did you fake the time stamp?

]]> drewl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038358 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038358 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:24:43 -0800 Comment by drewl Also, Jonah, that spider shit is old, old news. Decades old. Ask any Deadhead. Ah.... good times, good times.

]]> drewl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038359 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038359 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:35:52 -0800 Comment by Bob I'd still rather have Bill Clinton backing me up in a bar fight than Barack Obama.

]]> Bob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038370 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038370 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:11:58 -0800 Comment by Lou @kelly

You mean Lady Elaine Fairchild. She was always my favorite; she didn't take shit from anyone.

]]> Lou http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038371 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038371 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:23:09 -0800 Comment by Mary F @23: Got a deal for you Bob - you take the Clintons for back up in your bar fight (which sounds like a foregone conclusion at this point), and that will free up Obama to run the country. We'll even throw in McCain to help you dodge those head blows . . . for what its worth.

]]> Mary F http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038372 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038372 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:26:38 -0800 Comment by Big Sven Someone some day will write a really good book on both the monumental strengths and the stunning weaknesses of the Clintons. They really are amazingly interesting to watch. In the best tradition of Greek tragedy.

Race over tonight? Let's hope so.

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038380 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038380 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:59:45 -0800 Comment by elenchos Thanks, Bob.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038382 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038382 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:15:54 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity It is sort of interesting to watch past presidents in their post-presidential life. Nixon and Ford all but disappeared into obscurity. Carter, for all his unpopularity while in office, has reached nearly sainthood in his post-presidency. Reagan descended almost immediately into Alzheimer's. Bush the first rarely makes any public appearances.

Then there is Bill Clinton... He was so popular during his presidency, even at the worst of the Monica scandal. His charisma bowled over the press and the public, for the most part. It is really weird watching him completely loose it during Hillary's campaign. If he'd have self-destructed like that when he was running, he never would have become president himself.

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038426 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038426 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:32:54 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE We have arguably endured the worst presidency in the Republic's history, and it still goes on, shameless, unindicted, unapolgetic.

Yet an unsubstantiated hit piece on Bill riles and roils the grey water of the Clintons' alleged vast unpoopularity [sic] once again.

I'm surmising not a few of you out there would love to travel in the luxe Clinton pussy posse, were you only invited.

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038462 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038462 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:10:00 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle There is no truth to the rumor that John McCain's wife is a rich slut who stole him from a good wife who raise John's two little daughters while he was in captivity, or to the rumor that John McCain was sleeping with female lobbyists this year.

Other than the truth, that is.

But Republicants don't believe in the truth.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038486 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038486 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:26:15 -0800 Comment by Jamie "isn't vanity fair known for their meticulous fact checking?"

Interstingly, the author doesn't even present this as FACT, but merely is repeating RUMORS fed him by his unnamed sources.

Weak at best.

]]> Jamie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/while_its_still_technically_a_race#c1038663 2008 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:57:43 -0800