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Is Anyone Ready?
Susan Estrich 8/6/2008
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The knives are out for my friend Bill Clinton. Again. There he is in Rwanda, not one of the top spots for August vacations, trying to do something to stop a few million Africans from dying of curable diseases. Far as I can tell, no one wanted to discuss that, or at least report what he had to say about it.

No, it was his refusal to simply say "yes" when asked whether he thinks Barack Obama is ready to be president that resulted in one of the most viewed stories this week.

In fact, if you look at what he did say, it was almost certainly true. "You can argue that nobody is ready to be president," the former president told ABC News.

"You can argue that even if you've been vice president for eight years, that no one can be fully ready for the pressures of the office," Clinton said Monday from Rwanda.

You can argue it, for sure, and you'd be right, looking at history. But if you're Bill Clinton, apparently you're not supposed to say it. News reports quoted Clinton "backers" as saying the president couldn't give the politically correct answer because he's still smarting from his wife's loss. And that's what Clinton backers were saying. My e-mails
from Obama backers cannot be printed.

What was Clinton doing?

Maybe he was just being honest.

Is anyone really ready on Day One to be president? Was Bill Clinton? I think he and Hillary would be the first to admit they made mistakes in the early days — think White House Travel Office and Billy Dale, not to mention that secret task force to come up with a national health insurance plan.

Was John Kennedy? Clearly not, or he wouldn't have gotten rolled, as it were, into approving the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion.

Was George W. Bush? The short answer is no, or he wouldn't have ignored that intelligence report about the possibility of al-Qaida hijacking airplanes or kept reading children's stories when he first heard the news.

The question is not whether you're ready, but whether you have what it takes to rise to the occasion. On that score, President Clinton had nothing but praise for Obama: "He clearly can inspire and motivate people and energize them, which is a very important part of being president. And he's smart as a whip so there's nothing he can't learn."

What more do you want from the guy?

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Posted By: Bobbie Tobias  on Tuesday, August 12, 2008

You are right again Susan.Why do they make every thing that Bill Clinton

says so negative?I understood what he meant and didn't see anything wrong with it.I still think Hillary got the shaft from the news media and Obama pulled the race card more than once and tried to make himself look like the victim.He is nothing more than a big phoney that "talks" a good speech.He couldn't hold a candle to Hillary in a one on one contest.Mark Penn did her a lot of harm and lets face it the news was very much "OBAMA"I wish her backers would do a roll call vote at the convention since Barack doesn't need our vote anyway.If I can't vote for Hillary then I guess McCain will get my vote.

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