Lynn Forester de Rothschild on Financial Crisis, John McCain & Bill Clinton

She made a wise decision, Susan. While some people were hard at work today on the financial bailout, this seems to be what Obama was doing:

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Barack-Obama/ss/events/pl/020807obama/im:/080924/480/77b900c2f9fa4fa298cfa43d396d4825/

Has Obama ever really worked at being a legislator? We know Hillary was a hard worker — and even though she did not get the nomination, she put her head down and went back to work. It’s not surprising that she was the one who came out with a detailed position on the financial crisis.

Obama on NPR a few minutes ago accused McCain of not really suspending his campaign because John is receiving so much media attention because of his confronting the financial crisis.

Has Obama forgotten that he is a senator from Ill. and should be representing his constituents in this debate which in effect is how politicians are going steal taxpayer money to reward their corporate supporters?? Or that IF BO serves as president he will be overseeing how these funds are used if the legislation passes.

I swear this man does not have a clue as to what is expected of our legislators let alone a president of our country.

From my post on the TexasDarlin and PUMA sites on the question of what Bill Clinton’s up to. Thought you might appreciate it as well:

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This is going back a ways but, if people recall, Bill Clinton’s national “profile” was first raised when he assumed the position of Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC).

What is the DLC?

Depends on whom you ask. The left sure didn’t like it. They still don’t.

The Democratic Leadership Council it is an organization originally founded to attempt to redefine the CENTER of the Democratic Party. It was formed in 1985, largely by Al From:

Who is Al From?

“A veteran Capitol Hill and White House aide, From helped form the DLC in 1985. Under his leadership, the organization has become the leading source of policy innovation within the Democratic Party. From played a prominent role in the 1992 election of President Bill Clinton, who campaigned as a New Democrat, prompting USA Today to write, “The ideas at the crux of the Clinton candidacy were largely drafted by the DLC.” From was also Clinton’s domestic policy advisor during the 1992 presidential transition. ” [From the DLC Website]

The current Chair of the DLC is Harold E. Ford, Jr., former Tennessee Congressman.

And, part of the DLC leadership and head of the DLC’s “American Dream Initiative” is….. yes, none other than Hillary Rodham Clinton.

When formed, the DLC was blasted by the left wing (now running things) of the Democratic Party as a sell-out. For example, the DLC actually supported school choice, which was a litmus test issue at the time (maybe it still is), along with work-based welfare reform, national service, community policing, and an expanded earned income tax credit.

Just some interesting history?

Maybe.

But, I am not particularly shocked that Bill Clinton is not embracing the Dean/Brazile cabal of loonies running the party. Nor is it surprising that he might be less than enamored with the most liberal Democrat to ever run for President (Barack Obama). And that is quite aside from any hard feelings Clinton might have about how his wife was treated in the primary.

Bill Clinton was not popular with the left wing of his party, just as John McCain is not popular with the right wing of his. It would not be unreasonable to think that both could fit somewhere under the DLC umbrella, though that will never happen. It’s an organization of Democrats so McCain’s not welcome. But, philosophically, the point is valid. They both trend toward the center and not toward the fringes of their parties.

This is an aside and, to be honest, and I have nothing to go on here but pure speculation and instinct, but, while I know that Hillary Clinton wanted the nomination and wanted it badly, and many of us wanted it very badly for her, I believe she was genuinely conflicted about the prospect of running against John McCain [though she would have, gladly, and would have won]. I believe she (from her words and from her work with him in the past) has the utmost respect for Senator McCain. What that might have meant in a campaign, I don’t claim to know. But, at the least, I am sure, the campaign would have been run on issues. She’s certainly got some fundamental differences with him on certain issues. But, on a personal level, I do not believe we’d have seen the level of character assassination, distortion and vile, personal attacks that we have in this race to date. That’s speculation, yes, and this is about Bill, not Hillary.

Over on the P.U.M.A. site, they call Bill Clinton (not with his blessing, I might add, but it still fits) PUMA-In-Chief.

If you look at his history and the fact that he began his trek to the White House by taking on his own party and joining with the DLC to seek to move the party toward (not all the way to, only toward) the center, the balanced, statesmanlike way he’s approaching current events should not surprise us at all.

And, not to make this too academic an exercise, yes, there is the matter of payback. I don’t underestimate him in that department, either. One thing you have to give the former POTUS. When his zipper’s not down, the man knows exactly what he’s doing.

My prediction is that once McCain finds a majority to agree with his plan from the Republican side, then he will call Hillary and work with her to bring the Democrats to support his bill. That’s what I think.

Sounds plausible.

of course obama should be involved. For one it is his job as a senator and this is a crisis.
Next, One of them is going to be the next president.
It makes alot of sense for them to be involved.
Obama just sounds like a baby, politics as usual.
McCain took the initiative and took charge.
He is going to be the next president steering our economy. It is selfish and irreresponsible not to get involved.
They want to throw money around like madmen and Paulson has been consistently wrong.
Oh, and you can bet there will be a debate. This is amazing theater and when Mac cleans his clock in the debate it could end the entire election.

rothschild is awesome as is Bill Clinton. He is helping mccain pull a coup in this election.
Bill as an RNC agent!!!

Bill Clinton is a skilled strategist, always has been. He knows how to win, and that’s move to the center. Plus he believes in centrist principles, like being patriotic!! He knows the Democratic party has been taken over by loonies, and BO is their poster boy. Clinton was of the Kennedy school but with a Southern drawl. The party is now run by the far left, which leaves the center wide open to attack. Hillary would have kept the centrists in the Democratic party. Now many, like myself, have fled and are now independents or even Republicans.

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I think Obama thinks that because the MSM has given him a free ride and worshipped him disgustingly that he can do as he pleases and say anything he pleases and we, the public, can like it or lump it. He is so egotistical that he thinks this whole election cycle is just about him.

The filthy way he and his campaign has operated is like nothing I have ever seen in politics, and I have been around a long time and been through a lot of campaigns. He feels that he is so important he shouldn’t have to work at it. Like going to Hawaii for a vacation while HIllary stumped for him. Actually, I think he went to Hawaii to try to drum up another fake colb or a birth certificate. Strange, that instead of presenting legal documentation, he and the DNC decided to file a MOTION FOR DISMISSAL of the Berg lawsuit. Wouldn’t it be much more simple and less time consuming to just produce the document? I’m interested to see how Judge Surrick handles this case. That will tell us a lot.

Lady de Rothschild really did a class act on Campbell Brown in that interview. She was the very epitome of a lady while Campbell sputtered and fumed in a childish fit of rage. The Lady’s announcement for John McCain really got those so called journalists at msnbc in a twit. They can’t handle a conversation with an intelligent person. It frustrates them no end when they hear the truth about their hero.

WJC’s first term produced a lot of positive results because he was able to work closely with the Gringrich led House to implement sound economic and tax policies. SUre, they are competitors from different sides of the aisle, but true competitors also know how to engage each other for the best interest of their constituents and the country. The Pelosi/Reid Congress is just calcified, they do not know how to bargain and make deals. They just know how to play underhanded politics for their own personal gain.

A presidential election race between Hillary and McCain would have been a beautiful sight to behold. It would have been an electoral contest as none seen in recent memory. They do have a lot of respect for each other, and truly call each other friend. The competition would have been fierce, but on ideas and issues, not personal attacks. How refreshing would that be.

Just because they are friends does not mean either would all out to win the election. Look at the Williams sisters, Venus and Serena, on the tennis court in a match against each other. I have never witnessed a fiercer competitive battle in tennis than by watching them, but when the match is over, they are just loving sisters again.

totally off subject – but was Neil Cavuto flirting with Lady de Rothschild?

More than likely obama has more fundraising partird to attend to this weekend…. much more important than our homes, savings and jobs and economic survival ! oh, I forgot he’s the president! the king ! the ubermessiah! we DON’T MATTER!

More than likely obama has more fundraising parties to attend to this weekend…. much more important than our homes, savings and jobs and economic survival ! oh, I forgot he’s the president! the king ! the ubermessiah! we DON’T MATTER!

Bill Clinton still speaks for me. I agree with everything I’ve heard him say today. Why should Bill or Hillary either one play the role of attack dog against McCain and Palin for Obama? Isn’t that the VP’s job?

Yep,

And the Clintons’ will be voting for McCain/Palin in 2008, as well.

We’re under siege. Bill and Hillary know it.

She looked beautiful in her Orange Jumpsuit at the Convention.

Turd Kennedy is passing the baton (bomb) to Daley. He owes him, circa 1960. How convenient for David Asselrod and Michelle Robinson, et al. I pray their geek loses.

The plain and simple facts are Bill Clinton was one of two Democratic Presidents in the last couple decades because he was a moderate Democrat who was more to the center. One of the big things he was for that I admired in him is his attitude of “a hand up not a hand out”. When he passed Welfare Reform and put a time limit on how long someone could collect as well as put new things in place to help promote welfare to work, I was totally suprised. Far lefties would never go for this. Clinton was actually helping people. The far left just wants to keep them down so they can manipulate them. McCain, he too is a moderate. One of the reasons I support him.

He’s spent the vast majority of his short time in the Senate running for president.

Does anyone have a link to Sarah Palins interview tonight with Katie Couric?

Yes, but Biden sounds more like a St Bernard who can’t keep from lapping at his brandy keg.

You are exactly right. Both Hillary and Bill know that the radical left has taken over the Democratic Party. A loss to McCain in five weeks will give the centrists in the party the excuse they need to get rid of idiots like Howard Dean, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazille, etc. and reclaim control. Let the fruitbats go and form their own little fringe party on the extreme left. I hear Ralph Nader is available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP12aNzocSc

He was impressed with her sincerety and gumption.

OT but has anyone else ever known Mr. Obama to be so eager to debate anyone before. Something tells me he either has beforehand knowledge of the questions and has been fiercely practicing his answers to look “presidential” (like that is possible). It would be so hillarious if they switched questions on him if the debate does go forward. Um-uh-ah-Um-uh-ah-Um-uh-ah. Yoga coach anyone.

I saw that interview. Campbell acted like a 16 year old whose mom just schooled her, huffing and sneering. Campbell will never run in the same circle as Lady Lynn and Hillary, that’s a fact.

lady lynn is only saying what millions of us card carrying democrats are thinking and feeling. i too have never voted for a republican in my life, and i must admit, it feels awkard but, i so look forward to voting for mccain in november. P.U.M.A.!!!!

It was a like a breath of fresh air listening to Bill Clinton not only agreeing that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in congress were the deregulation bunch he actually said Mccain was not afraid to debate Obama,after all John had wanted to debate Obama all summer and all he got was refusals.I am glad he is not sullying his ex-presidency by lying about Mccain and making up all sorts of wonderous acts that Obama has performed.I know after reading sites such as Huffypost,etc that he is really getting beaten up and threatened by the Obamanoids but you know what he is like Hillary —he can take it.

Bingo. I’m a conservative republican and and to the suprise of my lib friends, I would not lose any sleep with Hillary in charge. I don’t agree with everything she and the Clinton’s stand for, but I can never say she doesn’t care about the USA or that she’s unpatriotic.

I also agree with a previous poster that the bailout bill will have Clinton’s name on it and it will be a free market bill. Bill and Hillary will own the Dem party by Sunday.

alforhill- i was thinking the exact same thing. obama hussein avoided debating hillary some more. and has avoided john mccain’s invitations to townhall meetings and now he is just way too eager.

Thank you wodiej…

brooklyn, a few of my Republican relatives told me the same. They would likely not have VOTED for Hillary, but they wouldn’t be worried or upset if she had won, either.

Amen. Like I’ve said here before, Hillary gets shit done. You never hear her hem and haw over issues.

I think it’s discusting how they grill her in no win questions to make her look stupid and the soft balls they give Obama to make him look like god. I am sick.

I like it: PUMA-in-Chief!!

I know some Republican women who WERE going to vote for Hillary. They are more anti-Dem now than they ever were before because of the Obama candidacy. AND I DO NOT HAVE RACIST FRIENDS.

My gut reaction was that he KNEW the right thing for for Senators was to be in the Senate, of all places, working on this national crisis. He KNEW McCain would outshine him there, that he would be a stuttering fool in that situation and he would lose ground faster.

He just chose to try a cheap shot and accuse McCain of being afraid and being unable to multi-task (gag me, please) because he knew Hollywood types like Letterman (what a jerk for his fuming at McCain’s leaving him so he could actually do his job rather than appear on a talk show) and the MSM would just take any O excuse and think it sounded right.

He was acting like my slacker high school kids, making excuses so they woudn’t have to embarrass themselves because of their ineptitude.

Voting women should know how poorly Obama and Biden pay their women staffers. For every dollar that Obama paid his average male staffer, his female counterpart made just 83 cents, while for Biden it was 73 cents. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjE3OWVmZjkzN2YyNDgzOGFjMGE1ZDg4YjE0ZjQ4NDc= McCain pays his women staffers $1.04 for every dollar his male staffers make.

The national average is 77 cents.

*** BREAKING NEWS ***
Washington Mutual just got seized by the FDIC and sold to JP Morgan for $8B. A year ago is was worth like $100B.

Sadly, I knew several republicans who would have voted Hillary over McCain. They will never vote Obama and may never vote dem ever even if it’s Hillary 2012. They all now think the democrats are lunatics and need to go away.

I told the same think.Obama’s insistence to debate sounds” fishy”. I think he knows the questions. With Obama everything is possible. Would be nice if they will change the debate subject and be – economy – instead of Foreigh policy.

That is sooo Bawaaack! Signing photos of himself while the country burns—like Nero. What arrogance! I wish the McCain campaign would use that photo in an ad to show just how much BHO thinks about our country while its in a crisis.

Loved that Bill Clinton stood up for McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign and postpone the debates. McCain’s action shows me he is truly concerned about our country, not about his poll numbers.

There was a phone in poll on a local radio station this morning about whether or not they agreed with BHO or McCain about the debate, whether to hold it or to postpone it. So many BHO supporters called in—I think it was the Obots because they all used the same talking point: McCain should show that he can “multi-task” which is needed in someone who is the President. The phone lines were jammed, probably by the Obots. I posted on the radio station’s blog that I thought McCain was doing the right thing—we can always have a debate, but to handle the economic crisis cannot be postponed.
Then during the newsbreak, the news announcer came on and said that BHO was criticizing McCain’s decision about postponing the debate which shows that he cannot multi-task! Bingo!

Beware the BHO daily talking points memos. Just like Rovian tactics for the far right-wing agenda.

I agree.

The thing that is funny is that his whole campaign is that Washington needs to be fixed.

But he clearly he trusts Washington enough to fix the probelm that he has been complaining about on the stump which can only be fixed by himself.

He has just contradicted his entire platform…lol

“A Bailout We Don’t Need”
James Kenneth Galbraith
http://tinyurl.com/3qm7wf

I think he was. Neil was unusually animated. But can you blame him? It was a great interview.

What a CLASSY lady she is!!! Make me proud to be a Democrat on her same side voting for McCain !!

I’m just a guy from Southside Chicago (Bridgeport), I have never seen or heard of Lady Rothschild before until this year. She’s very intriguing.

I love the way she speaks.. like the tempo of voice, it’s deliberateness…

This is probably a stupid question.. but does someone get “trained” to speak that way or does it come naturally?

Also… I was annoyed by Neil.. He would ask her a question and then if she took more than 5 seconds to answer it, he would cut her off and then ask another one.

Also… I’m sick of this “But you’re voting against your own party. Do you really mean what you’re saying” waste of time question.

I also love how this woman presents herself. She really speaks from her inner core. That voice is grounded and she has already inspired me to tap into my woman power. Every time I see that a video clip is up with her being interviewed, I’m sure to watch just to learn from her. LOVE IT!

The Lady is a Lady for sure.