Clintons' hobnobbing with GOP calculated

[sabra]

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/special_packages/election2004/12475202.htm

Clintons' hobnobbing with GOP calculated

RON FOURNIER

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - One Clinton jets to Alaska and Iraq with Republicans, and enthusiastically sponsors legislation with GOP lawmakers who impeached her husband. The other plays golf with former President Bush and accepts assignments from the current one.

All this bipartisan snuggling by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Clinton has some Democrats and Republicans questioning their motives.

Is this calculated politics designed to get the former first lady ready for a presidential bid in 2008?

Or is it a pragmatic concession to the fact that Republicans control Washington, and working with them is the only way to get anything done? Do the Clintons have a bipartisan streak? Would they put their own political interests ahead of the Democratic Party? Could there be an element of this polarizing couple that simply likes to get along?

[Wapsie B]

1. I think it's an old Mafia saying

"Keep your friends close but your enemies closer."

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Yes, but which one of us is the enemy?

:shrug:

[annabanana]

this should explain it

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecid=307&contentid=253472

[Roxy66]

2. I think it's a smart calculation.....

[Sven77]

3. its not a two party system anymore

its all fake, there on the same team. kerry was a fraud. is it democracy when father and son become president ? is hilary next. we see the same people in control year after year..

[no_to_war_economy]

4. all in preparation for the military coup in 2006

to ease the impact of the country's first military coup, Bush senior and the best republican president ever, Clinton will appear on the tv to calm the situation down and help resume normal war machine operations

[Cocoa]

5. this story has a rare quote from Dennis Kucinich

"I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate," said Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, a presidential candidate in 2004.