Hillary is Tougher than Nelson Mandela?
January 7, 2008
Bill grasps at the quickly vanishing straws when he says:
“I go to Nelson Mandela’s birthday party every year and we’re still very close. I believe if Yitzhak Rabin had not been murdered in 1995 we would have peace in the Middle East. I loved him as much as anyone I’ve ever known.
“But if you said to me today, ‘I’m gonna give you one last job for your country — go and do this — but it’s hazardous and you may not get out with life and limb intact and you have to do it alone except I’ll let you take one other person,’ and I had to pick one person whom I knew who would never blink, who would never turn back, who would make great decisions under pressure and would never forget what the purpose of being there was, I would pick Hillary of the people I’ve known and I would never even think about it. It would be an easy choice.”
Mr. President, are you fucking kidding me? Just no comparison in my book. Conflating the toughness or strength of his wife with Nelson Mandela just seems to me a bit beyond the pale. This really is an unfortunate choice of examples and Bill should stop embarrassing himself . The former President should choose his words more carefully.
Oh, and Hillary there’s NO CRYING in Presidential politics!
