Check out these opening paragraphs, and guess who's being described.
Looking into [his] eyes is like falling into a swimming pool.His eyes are deep and blue and comforting and, as person after person will tell you, when his eyes lock onto yours, you feel like you are the only other person in the world.
Margarida Perreira, 48 . . . can stand it no longer.
“Can I give you a kiss?” she asks him.
“Sure you can,” he says.
She hugs him fiercely.
He smiles and thanks her and moves on, his hands in the pockets of his white jeans, his dark ostrich skin boots scuffing along the dirt paths . . .
So, what's your guess? Brad Pitt? Matt Damon? Robert Redford, perhaps? Or might it be fiction -- something from a dime-store bodice-ripper?
Alright, you NewsBusters readers are a smart lot. You've probably deduced that if the answer were a Hollywood star, we wouldn't be writing about it here. OK, then: the answer is Bill Clinton, and the author is the apparently star-struck Roger Simon at Politico.com. The notion behind The long campaign of Bill Clinton is that the former prez just loves campaigning and, um, human contact, and is incredibly good at the art of retail politics. In fairness, there's no doubt that Clinton is a schmoozer supreme. Even so, can anyone imagine a Republican receiving this kind of a fawning profile?
There's one classically Clintonian moment that Simon describes.
“I love your boots!” a woman shouts to him.He walks over to her. “Ostrich skin,” he says. “I have ostrich skin and crocodile. I have a pair that is both ostrich skin and crocodile. There is this place in Australia that makes boots out of crocodiles and ostriches, but only when they die naturally.”
Smoked the ostrich, but didn't inhale it.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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naturally dead
September 5, 2007 - 16:52 ET by Mica the MagnificentI'll let others comment on the first part of the story, I liked the last part.
Bill Clinton knows a place in "Australia that makes boots out of crocodiles and ostriches, but only when they die naturally."
In Bill Clinton's world, a bullet through the skull of an ostrich or a crocodile passes as allowing them to 'die naturally.'
In Bill Clinton's world, a
September 5, 2007 - 20:03 ET by drillanwrIn Bill Clinton's world, a bullet through the skull of an ostrich or a crocodile passes as allowing them to 'die naturally.'
Or "suicide" ... heh-heh!
"They put 50,000 volts
September 5, 2007 - 20:07 ET by Tom1969ca"They put 50,000 volts through it, so - naturally - it died."
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If you don't stand behind our troops, feel free to stand in front of them!
I was going to post who
September 5, 2007 - 16:45 ET by bigtimerI was going to post who else but Bill Clinton....
I see now I was right.
Makes me ill.
Dying Nature Lee
September 5, 2007 - 16:46 ET by Lame CherryAh people, you do know that animals on farms which die "naturally" are a most interesting stench. Farmers pile them up, they bloat as they are rotting and a rendering truck hauls their rubbery bodies to a rendering plant where they are skinned by a most unfun paid guy (sure he uses some winches but it still stinks and as a sidenote this is where the Humane Society is known to dump their pets off too).
Next the animals are boiled so the rancid meat falls off and becomes pet food and the bones bone meal.........and the rotten hides are dehaired which smells horrid.........then they are soaked in salt and tanned.........all to end up on Billy Clinton's wild west footies....or Outback stompers.
I find this hillarious that the Bubba is wearing putrid rotting footwear........and bragging about it as this is the bottom feeder group that deals in tankage and rendering plant sewage.
*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS
The rendering truck lumbers
September 5, 2007 - 17:06 ET by motherbeltThe rendering truck lumbers by....
"Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead!"
pools.
September 5, 2007 - 16:48 ET by PKwhat was that childhood rhyme:
i look into your eyes and they remind me of pools.
cesspools.
........
C
Why do I feel....
September 5, 2007 - 16:49 ET by MightyMouth...the sudden urge to SPEW CHUNKS!!!!!!!!
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Or
September 6, 2007 - 08:00 ET by BritcomOr selling Buicks to Ralph York.
It's never bill's
September 5, 2007 - 16:57 ET by MidAmericaIt's never bill's presidential accomplishments(?) that are talked about, just the great love and affection his country has for him. (less than 50% of the vote both times)
As far as the woman in this story, every celebrity has groupies. Even mass murderers get love letters in prison from women they've never heard of.
I seem to recall this story
September 5, 2007 - 16:59 ET by Conservative in the ArtsI seem to recall this story about Clinton from awhile ago. editor got bored and re-printed an article?
"Mrs. Bill J. Clinton, Mrs. William J. Clinton, Mrs. Will J..."
September 5, 2007 - 17:00 ET by RiharGASP! Isn't he just DREAMY?! And he cares so much about the dead animals of Australia!
Sorry... I have to stop. My sarcasmometer is red-lining and I don't want it to explode.
When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere.
How about "Mrs. BJ Clinton"?
September 5, 2007 - 17:05 ET by motherbeltHow about "Mrs. BJ Clinton"?
All the self-proclaimed
September 5, 2007 - 17:00 ET by Chris NormanAll the self-proclaimed cynicism of the media flies out the window when the subject is Bill Clinton. You'd think they would be embarassed or, at the very least, defensive about it. But you'd be wrong...
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
History Repeating Itself?
September 5, 2007 - 17:02 ET by Del DolemonteMultitudes of gullible women threw themselves at Adolph Hitler, too.
Del... ....and men
September 5, 2007 - 17:03 ET by bigtimerDel...
....and men too...
exactly, look at Matt
September 5, 2007 - 22:49 ET by Conservative_in_mass.exactly, look at Matt Lauer's behavior today..Ug.
Barf
September 5, 2007 - 17:05 ET by ChaitealoverAnd PK - I remember that rhyme, too. We must be of an age :o)
Those who would expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it - Thomas Paine
rhyme
September 5, 2007 - 17:28 ET by PKgot a real problem.
can't remember the rest of it.
C
I knew you were talking
September 5, 2007 - 17:35 ET by charlietexasI knew you were talking about playboy billy.....what a
surprise. I dont get it?? whats tha attraction?? I cant get past
his d**k-nose. Not to mention all the women hes been with, hes
nasty and gross. and hes married to a man.
A real Texas woman!! mommy
Copping feels
September 5, 2007 - 18:16 ET by Shooter1002I must admit, this low rent redneck who's mother fit the stereotype and who's father, well, who knows, has truly risen from nothing to POTUS. He's a better rags to riches story better than Abe Lincoln. And if that's not enough, he's had more women these last years since he's been out of office than Marcello Mastroianni, Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Paul Newman combined.
A few bumps along the way but randy rogues must have their precarious moments. Now he's about to be in the greatest position ever, he'll get himself to become Secretary General of the UN. Basically, between his wife doing his bidding as POTUS and the UN position, he'll be King of the World !!
But still a low rent redneck at heart though, looking down dresses and copping feels when he can.
I thought Roger Simon was
September 5, 2007 - 18:42 ET by stratmanI thought Roger Simon was talking about Larry Craig and a toe-tapping good time they shared recently at a local airport.
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
I was about to say ...
September 5, 2007 - 18:58 ET by drewinmass61Sounds like the author needs to get a restroom stall at the minny airport. From his fawning tribute to the Philanderer in Chief, he sounds like a "wide stance" kinduva guy. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
They're just a couple of
September 5, 2007 - 19:08 ET by stratmanThey're just a couple of stall-crossed lovers.
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
Ba dum dum. :) The dogs
September 5, 2007 - 19:14 ET by Chris NormanBa dum dum. :)
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
One must have to be
September 5, 2007 - 18:52 ET by msh1973One must have to be a liberal to think Clinton is sexy, because he gives me the creeps. Yuk!
Boy oh boy do I ever Second
September 5, 2007 - 18:54 ET by bigtimerBoy oh boy do I ever Second that msh...
I have never understood the attraction...
He gives me the creeps too...always has...
Of course we all know why now.
May I third that please,
September 5, 2007 - 22:05 ET by Cape ConservativeMay I third that please, msh??? These two, from day one of the pictures of their college days, have been creepy-creeps! How anyone would be drawn to either is far beyond my comprehension!
Yea right?
September 5, 2007 - 19:02 ET by general companymakes boots out of crocodiles and ostriches, but only when they die naturally.”
I know quite a few Aussi's, they aint that patient
The ostrich will live to 60
September 5, 2007 - 20:18 ET by RackieThe ostrich will live to 60 and the croc to 75.
Hillarious, Mark
September 5, 2007 - 19:18 ET by BlondeSmoked the ostrich, but didn't inhale it.
Well, I suppose when I buy some new riding boots, ostrich & crocodile are out.
David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive
"I'm too sexy for my
September 5, 2007 - 20:12 ET by Rackie"I'm too sexy for my boots."
LOL, how about good ole
September 6, 2007 - 07:53 ET by BritcomLOL, how about good ole American alligator.
Blue-eyed Cintoon
September 5, 2007 - 21:24 ET by algoa456I must protest. This article ruined my evening. There I was innocently reading along and thinking it was some good looking uneducated Hollywood type. And horror of horrors it is the Clintoon.
Incidentally ostriches are from Africa. Emus are the big birds of Oz, mate.
Looking into [his] eyes is
September 5, 2007 - 22:53 ET by Conservative_in_mass.Looking into [his] eyes is like falling into a swimming pool.
With a bag of cement around your neck.
Clinton
September 6, 2007 - 00:43 ET by JudithHow will we stand 8 more years of these cruds. That's 16 years total to ruin our country. I am not sure we can survive. As for sexy, he's an "under the bleachers" jerk.
CONCRETE TSU & KATLEEN WILEY BOOK
September 6, 2007 - 07:58 ET by PawpawNThey're at it again, the FOBs are dropping like flies. Any connection to the congressman who died suddenly yesterday? Katleen Wiley's home burglarized, TSU missing[probably on plane with Fosset]. What else is occurring?
From the blog posting "In
September 6, 2007 - 11:46 ET by TheConservativeChemistFrom the blog posting "In fairness, there's no doubt that Clinton is a schmoozer supreme."
He is indeed VERY charismatic. He and Pres Bush (the dad) spoke at commencement when I received my PhD this past May and although I think he is a dispicable human being (as is his wife), he is very charismatic and can work a crowd.
Just remember that Hitler had the same qualities, too (I'm just sayin'.....)
"Yesterday's Communists are Today's Democrats....
Yesterday's Democrats are Today's Republicans..." - An analogy made by *ME*