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I've said many times in the last few years that President Clinton has been a model of decency that more people should follow. I notice that yesterday was no exception.

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TallDave (mail) (www):

Clinton has been a pretty classy ex-Prez, though the cynic in me wonders how much that has to do with Hillary's ambitions...

9.2.2005 10:50am

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Ken McCracken (mail) (www):

I agree, Clinton has been gracious and thoughtful, and knows his place, and has been part of the solution, not the problem.

9.2.2005 10:51am

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Dean Esmay:

Yes, and not just on this, but on numerous issues going back to 9/11, as well as on Iraq and other key issues. He knows how to advocate a position without it being about simply reflexively tearing the other guy apart.

9.2.2005 10:58am

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Scott Harris (mail) (www):

My wife has never understood my admiration for Bill Clinton. Whenever I would list the good qualities of President Clinton, she would just shake her head.

I didn't agree with much of his politics. But Bill Clinton has always had some admirable qualities. I remember being truly and deeply saddened by his impeachment, and personally disgusted at the glee of my fellow Republicans.

This just once again proves the decency of Bill Clinton.

9.2.2005 11:01am

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Scott Harris (mail) (www):

Hillary would be preferable to a paranoid McCain. Remember what happened the last time we had a truly paranoid President? Watergate.

9.2.2005 11:03am

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Mike "Veeshir" Fisher (mail):

That was very classy. Good for him.

9.2.2005 1:15pm

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Ted Armstrong (mail) (www):

Clinton is not always charitable to Bush. But he's better than Jimmy "never met a dictator I didn't like" Carter.

Traditionally ALL former presidents never criticized their successors. Clinton and Carter broke that tradition.

9.2.2005 1:41pm

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Martin L. Shoemaker (www):

Ted,

To be fair to President Clinton: any time I've heard him criticize President Bush, it has been at a clearly partisan campaign event. In other public appearances, he has ranged from neutral to supportive. While the partisan campaigning still goes farther than I would like, it draws a line I'm willing to live with. In a campaign, you're supposed to point out your disagreements, because you're trying to show a contrast with your candidate.

9.2.2005 2:59pm

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Steven Malcolm Anderson (www):

While I hated many of his policies, and while I still hate his Attorney General, I never could hate President Clinton. Not at all the way I have come to hate Carter. Clinton showed himself to be have some honor here. And, by the way, we must remember also that President Bush was one of the Republicans who opposed impreaching Clinton during that imbroglio. Two likeable men. Americans like to elect likeable Presents.

9.2.2005 4:51pm

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FredKiesche (mail) (www):

Several of the reporters and anchors on CNN have turned out to be real sleeze-balls this week. I saw two interviews (one by Miles O'Brian and one by the morning anchor) where they essentially spent their time berating the people they were trying to interview.

My wife, who is in the news business said: "You're not a good interviewer if you spend you time preaching instead of asking questions and listening to the answer."

I'm glad Clinton took them on. So did the governor of Mississippi. I hope more of them do.

9.2.2005 8:07pm

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Dean Esmay:

Honestly even when I've seen Clinton at partisan campaign events I've heard him tell Democrats to tone down the rhetoric and said things like, "I don't agree with how the President did this but..." rather than the kind of vicious rantings from the Howard Dean/MoveOn crowd.

Mostly he's been a model. I've really come to admire him more now than ever.

9.2.2005 10:57pm

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B. Durbin (www):

Maybe this was the role he's been waiting for all of his life. The glories of (ex-)Presidency, and none of the really hard duties (like basically being a punching bag for your opponents.)

Clinton has quite a bit of sense, at least in terms of politics and public appearances. And sometimes that comes out as true class. (It's really amazing to find, in retrospect, that Clinton seems far more reasonable than Gore. Remember when Gore seemed like the calm savior of the Democratic Party?)

9.3.2005 1:20am