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Bill Clinton Refuses To Criticize Edward Snowden, Says Next President Should Be A Woman

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Lately Bill Clinton has not been doing the president many favors. First, the "is" definition-challenged former president had some harsh words about Obamacare, and most recently in an overnight question-and-answer session before a standing-room-only crowd in a Beijing hotel ballroom, Clinton who was in Beijing for meetings with China’s President Xi Jinping as well as to promote the work of his New York-based philanthropic organisation, the Clinton Foundation, while withholding comments on Obama - whose approval rating has plunged to an all time low - refused to criticise Edward Snowden. Instead he said he believed it was "perfectly legitimate" for the US government to search “big data pools… to see if there are patterns of communication between certain numbers or sites and others known to be in the possession of terrorist groups”. But he went on, via AFP: “The question is when, if ever, is the government justified in going beyond the patterns to listen to telephone calls, read emails, read text messages, and who’s supposed to decide that? Mr Snowden obviously thought that it was excessive.

He added:

The fact that Snowden was able to receive a top-secret security clearance despite having only been a contractor for several months “made me think that we are on the verge of having the worst of all worlds: We’ll have no security and no privacy”, Clinton added.

 

“I think the US and China and everybody else, we’re going to have to be more upfront with each other and probably with our own people about what it is we’re looking for and listening to,” he said.

Of course, it is unlikely that anything will change, much to the detriment of US companies with international operations such as Cisco, whose revenues are projected to tumble in big part due to the blowback resulting from the Snowden revelations. Whether this will be a limited, one-time event remains to be seen.

More amusingly, among Clinton's other comments was his speculation on the gender of the next US president.

Former US president Bill Clinton hopes there will be a woman in the White House in his lifetime and will support his wife Hillary in whatever she decides to do, he told a Chinese audience on Monday.

 

Hillary, who earlier this year stepped down as US secretary of state, has not yet said whether she plans another presidential run after her failed 2008 bid for the Democratic nomination.

 

“I hope we have a woman president in my lifetime, and I think it would be a good thing for the world as well as for America,” Clinton said at a conference organised by the respected Chinese financial magazine Caijing.

 

“But I do not know if she’s going to run, and there is no such thing as a sure thing in politics,” he added.

 

In a question-and-answer session before a standing-room-only crowd in a Beijing hotel ballroom, Clinton, who was president from 1993 to 2001, was asked whether he envisages becoming a “first husband” in the future.

 

“You know, if I knew the answer to that, I couldn’t say,” he responded. “But I can give you an honest answer: I have no idea.”

 

He called his wife “the ablest public servant I have ever worked with” and said that he would support her whatever decision she makes on a White House run.

 

“If that’s what she wants to do, I will support her,” Clinton said. “But if she decides for whatever reason she doesn’t, I will support that.”

 

“It’s very interesting for us; we still feel young and we still feel healthy,” he added, noting that compared with several decades ago, he believes his wife now is “less motivated… by a fear of failure”.

Naturally, it would only be logical that the first female Fed chair be followed by the first female president. One can only hope, however, that in both cases it is not some gender quota driving the choice but the candidate with the best credentials. Then again, considering the current sorry state of the US economy, one wonders what difference does it make just who the next US president will be.

 

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Mon, 11/18/2013 - 10:53 | 4165007 Kalevi
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I want a Latina with exceptionally American enhanced features as a next American President.

 

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:56 | 4165255 ElvisDog
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Yeah, someone vaguely ethnic like the Columbian national they found for the Obamacare website.....

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 10:54 | 4165016 esum
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hey... she only killed 4 as sec of state...

let's make her president and see how many she can kill in a world war  

exactly what drugs are the clintoons on? she got the 2 am call and hung up on the ambassador.... she shit all over froeign policy and accomplished nada.. she is a bad joke, isnt a woman, and should stay home making cookies or knitting socks... 

 

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:00 | 4165036 mofreedom
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Her cookies suck.  She's needs to get back to work for the American people building roads as a jack-hammerererer.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:41 | 4165206 cro_maat
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Drawn and quartered as a traitor would be more appropriate.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:01 | 4165053 Atomizer
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Invent a Perception

How’s that strategy working out for you Billy?

 

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:05 | 4165054 q99x2
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Why not post the comments from the guy with his hand out in front of the 7/11. They are more meaningful than some lame ass globalist has been.

I mean you would want to print something from the Clintons once they are captured and brought to justice but not before.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:03 | 4165064 iLiquid
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Yellen 2016.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:07 | 4165076 comob
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When you are voting between the two puppets that the people in power have already selected, gender and race make no difference.

 

I think the next president should have a spine!

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:09 | 4165077 moneybots
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The next President should be someone with a brain in their head and who will be a good leader.  We need a President, not a precident.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:21 | 4165133 Atomizer
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Well said. Just one minor change. Perhaps you meant precedent? [An earlier occurrence of something similar]. At any rate, well spoken..

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:14 | 4165106 22winmag
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Ex-Presidents should be exiled to a deserted island in the south Pacific and never heard from again...

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:24 | 4165141 sampo
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I did not have sex with that woman!

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:26 | 4165152 Duude
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We all know now that wasn't a lie. It just so happened, "that woman" he spoke of was Hitlery. 

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 03:18 | 4168725 rockface
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Are you talking about Hilary?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:24 | 4165144 Duude
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When Hitlery took the secretary of state consolation prize I predicted she would resign from her position in 2012, then disappear for a period to regroup and plan with Bill her strategy to take the wh in 2016. I said then, her best hope was for Obama to become a one term president but if Obama was reelected she would seek to differentiate herself from Obama well into Obama's second term. She would do this initially with Bill slowly starting to criticize Obama midway through his second term, assuming the wheels of the Obama cart weren't yet falling off. But Bill smells blood in the water now. Within a couple of years Bill will criticize Obama even more than Republicans.  This is Hitlery's best chance of following up 8 years of Obama.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:47 | 4165219 Emergency Ward
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RODHAM \ ^KONY 2016

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:57 | 4165264 Uncle Remus
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[sound of respirator]

What does it matter?

[sound of respirator]

I did not have sex with that woman.

[sound of respirator]

Yeah, it's a Hemi.

[sound of respirator]

Bubba Fettid.

[sound of respirator]

[sound of sigh]

Jeebus, I need a drink.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 12:00 | 4165270 Meat Hammer
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A woman President is all that is left on his Types of Chicks to Bang in My Life list.  

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 12:01 | 4165273 Uncle Remus
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so...his fuckit list?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 12:08 | 4165300 MFLTucson
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How about Monika Lewinsky ...Billy boy?>

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 12:14 | 4165328 shovelhead
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At least Monica would make pearl necklaces fashionable again...

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 12:58 | 4165525 Uncle Remus
Mon, 11/18/2013 - 12:55 | 4165511 Spumoni
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Y'all are just jealous.

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 14:23 | 4165773 cbxer55
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According to Der Shleeckmeister, the next two El Presidente's should be a woman. Hillary and Chelsea. LOL 

Go play in traffic Billy Boy! Take a long walk on a short pier. 

Gerald Celente is on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvwEuDSv3G8&list=SPB1A898E94A412326&index=13

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 14:22 | 4165899 I Write Code
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That's no woman, that's his wife!

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 15:22 | 4166197 IdiocracyIsAlre...
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Bill Clinton is a sleazeball like 99.9% of all poliiticians but his comment that the Snowden revelations “made me think that we are on the verge of having the worst of all worlds: We’ll have no security and no privacy” is actually refreshingly honest.  And considering how atrocious the last two inhabitants of the WH were/are it makes me almost nostagic about the Clinton presidency.  Then I remember he was the one who signed the abomination known as Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the nostagia quickly dissipates.

 

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 15:58 | 4166328 sunkeye
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Slick endorsing Monica?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 16:41 | 4166549 Bazza McKenzie
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Given all he's done, does Bill really want Hillary in charge of the drones and black ops?

Mon, 11/18/2013 - 21:11 | 4167762 are we there yet
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Does Monica Lewinski have a Brother?

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 03:03 | 4168701 Notarocketscientist
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Who gives a fuck who the next US president is - it does NOT matter.  Because that person has ZERO power

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 03:17 | 4168723 rockface
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And the President is Michelle Bachmann

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