Too good to be true
Is it really possible that Bill Clinton actually said to Bill Richardson -- in reference to Richardson's refusal to endorse Hillary -- “Isn’t two Cabinet posts enough?”
Color me skeptical. I'd love to know what the sourcing is on the report where the quote first appeared. Like the allegation that Paul Wolfowitz said the Iraq War was "all about oil" (subsequently corrected and deleted), this is one of those quotes that's so deliciously wonderful, so perfect, so neatly encapsulating what everybody in the Beltway secretly (or not-so-secretly) thinks about Bill Clinton -- that he's a presumptuous, insufferable egomaniac who considers himself God's gift to the Democratic Party and believes that everybody in the known universe "owes" him -- I just can't believe it's actually true.
Having worked around white male CEOs for a number of years, this is exactly how I would expect a call like this to play out. And I really see nothing wrong with it.
If someone appoints you as the U.S. Ambassador the the UN and as the Secretary of Energy, you would think you should be able to call in a chit. It's called loyalty and it happens everyday in business.
Posted by: Mad Max, Esquire | Feb 13, 2008 12:31:06 PM
Cutting CEOs' grass does not count.
Posted by: | Feb 13, 2008 1:08:39 PM
We need 50 more years of pure republican
sweat talk to guide on out of this mess
we are in!I say lets continue the present
administration please!Let the game begin!!
Posted by: jalypso | Feb 13, 2008 2:14:44 PM
Jalypso!! Where have you been?? I knew something had been missing from my blog's election coverage, and now I realize what it is: jalypso's nonsensical prose. Welcome back! Let the game begin, indeed.
Posted by: Brendan Loy | Feb 13, 2008 2:25:00 PM
I like what you have done to the website!
If only change in America would become this simple. I heard you cryin so i came
runnin!!?!!I hope everyone doing well
both your friends and family?If not why not? The republicans fear Clinton and you
know it!!So just go into your box and
confess it!!!
Posted by: | Feb 13, 2008 2:38:09 PM
"sweat talk"?
What is that? Wait, I don't think I want to know.
Posted by: B. Minich | Feb 13, 2008 3:45:39 PM
I'm with Mad Max on this one. If I was Billary, I'd be fuming with Richardson on this one.
Posted by: Andrew | Feb 13, 2008 9:00:51 PM