Bill Clinton prepares for his new role
A new Washington Post/ABC poll shows that in a hypothetical match-up, Senator Clinton would beat Giuliani in a general election by an 8 point margin. The same poll also showed that Americans view President Clinton as an asset to his wife's campaign. That's not too surprising--people like Bill Clinton. Especially now in comparison to who's been running the country for the last 7 years.
It's too early for these numbers to mean much. Lots of things haven't happened yet. There haven't be any major debates, no primaries, no real scandals or campaign flame-outs. Plus the mighty media machine hasn't really ground down any candidates for kicks yet.
But it is interesting to see Obama's campaign die off a bit and watch Senator Edwards, who has worked so hard to become President, slip back into the legal ooze that he reached out from.
For the first time today, I have seriously thought about what it means to have Hillary Rodham Clinton as President and to have Slick Willie as First Spouse. It's not a bad future, but it would certainly be different than Georgie is today.
I think that it would mean:
- We'd stay in Iraq. Any president is stuck with that legacy now.
- There'd probably be another attempt to fix the national health care system
- The gossip tabloids would absolutely go nuts. The blessed silence that was the roar of Bill Clinton's sex life would manifest again. As well as the old speculations about Hillary's.
Posted on October 04, 2007
