HRC: "Best way to overcome it (Bill's affair) is to become president"

[rainbow4321]

http://salon.glenrose.net/?view=plink&id=7025

I have to agree that it's awkward for Clinton to have been told someone in the audience for one of her NC speeches felt sorry for her because of Bill Clinton cheating on her. But her response is very odd, I think.

A woman stood up and said, “Hillary, I love you. I always have and I always will. I felt so sorry for you when Bill had his affair.”

The audience reacted with noise and chatter, while Clinton reached for her glass of water and took a big gulp. “I believe now that the best way to overcome it is to become president,” she said.

Makes it seem like sort of a revenge thing.

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Original article:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/angelou-puts-pr.html

[XemaSab]

1. Dude... this shouldn't be about baggage.

But it's really seeming that way sometimes.

[Cheap_Trick]

30. Hillary has more baggage

than a Samsonite factory.

[PM7nj]

2. Revenge? I think that would explain a lot...

It would explain Bill's subtle attempts to sink the SS Hillary.

[rainbow4321]

5. Ding ding ding...

We have a winner.

The man is not stupid. He knows exactly what he is saying when out stumping. Sabotage.

[dano81818]

16. interesting angle, hadn't considered it

i just figured bill liked the action in the whitehouse so much he would do anything to get back there.

[dkf]

25. Looks like Bill is a whipped dog...who is passive-aggressively out to sink the SS Hillary.

[dano81818]

34. oh man she is gonna kick bill's ASS if she loses...

it makes so much sense it's scarey

[EFerrari]

40. Unless you go with the theory that Bill suffered some kind of impairment

after his surgery, which to tell you the truth, is what I believe might be true.

[dkf]

41. Nah, I heard he's been put on a "women diet".

For about a year now...

[DB1]

65. That explains it, testosterone toxicity.

[Divernan]

47. Bill does world class passive-aggressive behavior.

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[Danger Mouse]

45. please edit, that's over the line.

[dano81818]

3. omg that is psychotic

tempermentally she may be worse than mccain.

[rainbow4321]

11. Amazing how Obama so much as sneezes and the MSM

is all over it and not in a good way...HRC makes a pyscho comment like this and we have..silence. Except that she and Maya Angelou shared a stage. Nothing about HRC's revenge comment.

[dano81818]

13. obama should get some 3rd party to run that as an ad in PA

immediately... it should be on the air tomorrow. where's moveon when u need em?

[Pirate Smile]

4. That is bizarre.

[msongs]

6. or...it coulda just been a joke nt

[whatchamacallit]

7. She's obviously a fucking psycho

[ErinBerin84]

8. "had his affair"

“Hillary, I love you. I always have and I always will. I felt so sorry for you when Bill had his affair.”

I saw that on tv with my Mom today, and we were both like "What? That's fucked up!" I love when people are being socially awkward and they are oblivious to it. Maybe Hillary was taken aback by the way the woman worded it, but I thought the response was strange as well.

[Lost-in-FL]

9. That doesn't make any sense... n/t

[DearAbby]

10. !?!

A woman stood up and said, “Hillary, I love you. I always have and I always will. I felt so sorry for you when Bill had his affair.”

That was a supporter who said that? Probably heard the collective gasp of those in the audience for hundreds of miles...sheesh.

[zulchzulu]

12. Talk about absolutely the WRONG REASON to want to be President...

OK.

Hillary wants to be President because it's the best way for her to overcome the tragedy that her husband publically humiliated her by having an affair while he was President?

So it is really ALL ABOUT HER... wow.

[dano81818]

19. when it comes to either clinton it's always about "them"

what an embarassment this people are.

[hendo]

75. Naw..

The real revenge, if she reaches office will be when she has an affair with a staffer.

[EFerrari]

14. Great, we're extras in a Jacobean revenge play.

lol

[charlie]

21. "He tried to kill my daddy"

Grab your shorts, here comes Act II. Ai-yi-yi!

[EFerrari]

28. Growing Origamist Sects Ignored!

[TheDoorbellRang]

32. Or a *geek* chorus

Commenting (bitterly) on the tragedy as we watch it unfold. :wow:

[EFerrari]

36. (Jacobeans made Greeks look like nuns.)

They married their mothers AFTER they stole all their money. lol

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

15. Oh -- and credit where it's due -- that should be "affairs".

[dkf]

17. Wow, this is all to get an upper hand on Bill and make sure he can never cheat again?

Damn, that's sick.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. So we're her consolation prize?

[EFerrari]

24. Or her bludgeon.

Isn't it creepy to be dragged into someone else's sex drama? Yick!

[dkf]

33. And we have all these Clinton supporters who insist Bill's affairs are none of our business?

How much of what she is doing is tied to a life of having to endure living with that pain and humiliation? As President, she certainly would have a whole lot of power over Bill. In retrospect this is the only way she can be the one with the upper hand.

Poor Bill.

[EFerrari]

39. I'll be happy to stop talking about Bill's affairs when he stops

having them an inch away from my nose. That's pretty fair.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

49. The Jung and the Restless.

[EFerrari]

50. Bowling for Calumny.

:rofl:

[bicentennial_baby]

64. You two are killing me!....I just woke up!

Too early to laugh! :rofl:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

74. This stuff writes itself.

:rofl:

[nebula]

20. She acts like

the first person in the world who's been cheated on.

And it wasn't the first time either. Who do we have now, Flowers, Paula Jones, Lewinsky, just to name some of the ones we KNOW about? I think I lost count! Why didn't she leave him the first or 2nd time it happened? She must have been well aware of Bill's womanizing habits long before they got into the WH.

[rainbow4321]

23. Husband-wife testifying immunity, perhaps?

Just a thought.

[nebula]

38. Bingo!

they have a marriage of convenience.

[Danger Mouse]

22. That's kind of a weird response...

I don't get it. :shrug:

[Adelante]

56. Oh, thanks, I thought it was me

It's an entirely peculiar response.

[Danger Mouse]

62. i wouldn't go so far as to say she's nuts or anything like that...

but it is a very weird way to answer the question.

[Stephanie]

26. You could be right - who needs this psychodrama?

She's running to get revenge, he's sabotaging her on the campaign trail, poor freaking CHELSEA is put into service once AGAIN to shore up the chinks in their marriage, standing by Hillary's side like a spouse because Bill is banished to the background for bad behavior. Who needs it???

[EFerrari]

Chelsea's nickname must be Bondo.

Yick on skates.

[Cha]

27. It's also about winning as a victim

again..hilary's been nothing but a victim even when she's slinging the mace.

[ORDem]

29. WTF? Sounds like her answer to anything is "...is to become President" n/t

Hillary, I just love your yellow pantsuits!
Hillary: "I believe the best way to overcome them is to become President..."

[SunsetDreams]

31. very strange response! WOW!

[JanusAscending]

35. Ya know..........

I said months ago, right here on DU, that this was her bargain with him. She'd stay with him, if he got her elected to POTUS. I wouldn't be surprised if they seperated after she loses the Primary. Very sad, but IMO, true.

[livetohike]

69. I agree. It's all calculated.....

The move to New York to become a Senator - all stepping stones in her hope to be the next President.

They have needed each other over the years to attain their political goals, imo.

[AspenRose]

76. There is no one, no one at all....

"There is no-one, no-one at all
Never has been and never will be a lover
Male or female
Who hasn't an eye on
In fact they rely on
Tricks they can try on
Their partner
They're hoping their lover will help them or keep them
Support them, promote them
Don't blame them
You're the same"



Yikes, that's scary. Poor Chelsea.

[greguganus]

42. Bill is history if she can't steal this thing. n/t

[dailykoff]

43. I think she's stating an unspoken campaign "message"

that resonates with her diehard female supporters, the ones who can't bear the thought of her losing, namely, "making me president will be payback to all the guys who've done you wrong."

Pathetic yes, but it seems to work for her.

[EFerrari]

44. Nothing like tapping into people's deep well of dysfunctional RESENTMENT.

:shrug:

[dailykoff]

60. Exactly, but that's her whole phony GOP-style campaign.

A little nostalgia and a lot of hatred, fear and other recidivist American "values."

[KittyWampus]

63. dysfunctional resentment... yes, indeed. Nail-head.

[anonymous171]

46. So her bid for presidency is actually Bill's 3rd term?

[Colobo]

48. The presidency as a revenge... Hillary's just pathetic.

[cbayer]

51. You see, Lorena Babbitt, she was a psycho.

She cut off her husband's penis. That's a really, really bad thing to do.

Running for POTUS, not so bad. Most men should be so lucky.

:rofl:

[cbayer]

52. I will just add this one thing.

Your post and most of your respondents are an embarrassment to my Democratic party. An embarrassment, no more or less.

[bowens43]

53. If she had any charecter at all she would have divorced him.

This is just more evidence that shes a power hungry sociopath who will do anything or say anything to seize power.

[Perry Logan]

54. You are not fit to lick Hillary Clinton's boots.

[JVS]

55. Can't they get therapy that doesn't involve ruling over us?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

57. Hey, lay off. Hillary was tired when she said it. Just don't let her answer that 3 am phone call.

[Skidmore]

58. The Clintons are

truly toxic people--chronically dysfunctional. The kind of people that seem to be fun to be around when you first meet them and later spend alot of energy trying to disentangle yourself from their personal dramas. Come on, folks. We've all met people like that in our lifetimes.

[Rose Siding]

59. Whoa, that's very, very spooky.

I have so had it with watching the pathology of powerful families play out.

[elana i am]

61. no the best way to overcome

would be DIVORCE.

this is why i've always loathed the clintons. i cannont wrap my mind around a woman of hillary's public and political stature staying married to a serial abuser. any reason you could possibly dream up for it (i.e. opportunism) that doesn't involve intervention, doesn't look good on the woman in question, especially when she's a candidate for president.

a marriage of convenience, which is entirely likely, doesn't speak well to her character.

ick.

[City Lights]

66. Hillary, what you need is therapy.

The presidency is not a consolation prize handed out to one person because of another's bad behavior.

I've had enough Clinton psychodrama to last a lifetime.

[4themind]

67. Kick-nt

[Zachstar]

68. I don't understand clinton. What does President have to do with your personal life?

[Glimmer of Hope]

70. I think the remark made her feel uncomfortable and her response was

a little random and maybe not what she really meant. -Maybe the affair was demeaning and becoming president would allow her to put the affair to rest?

[moondust]

71. And the best way to skin a cat.

And the best way to scratch where it itches. And the best way to stop a headache. And the best way to cook a turkey. And the best way...

[Frank Booth]

72. This isn't surprising. I've been saying for months Hillary's pursuit of the presidency

had nothing to do with a desire to do good for the country.

It's just another battle in this freakish co-dependent couple's marital war, which they've foisted on the entire country.

I wish they had the ability to just go away and leave us all alone. Do we really want another 4 years of one of the most dysfunctional families in American history?

[yourguide]

73. She. Is. A. Fn. HUGH. Moran.

[Orsino]

77. Unfortunate phrasing.

I, for one, don't want to be part of their family therapy.

[TheDonkey]

78. Awwwwwkward.

:rofl:

[Raine]

79. It's certainly an ego booster

for her. I hope she wasn't serious though cause that is not reason enough to be president.