Ouch!

I suspect only a very old man can get away with saying this about an obvious feminist. h/t Hot Air. And Clinton's correct. I'm surprised he even went near enough to it to comment.

Comments

[Lala]

Conservative and Republican women are usually beautiful. Democrats have Helen Thomas, Bella Abzug, Joy Behar.

I was surprised but I thought the joke was pretty funny. Clinton wasn't too bad.

[Winefred]

Here's a clue, Mr. Clinton: George H.W. Bush can tell that joke because he's basically a decent family man who has always treated women with respect where it's due (to which the cow in question seems to have been the rare exception).

If Slick Willy Clinton tells a joke like that (and I'm sure he does when the microphones aren't on) everybody who hears it knows that he's basically still a pig who treats women like garbage, to be used, abused, and tossed aside. So it's just not funny. It's just that simple.

[Zastros]

Bill says he could never get away with the "Stay out of my womb. No problem, lady." joke. It's true. I mean, who'd believe him?

[mark l.]

I always chuckle when I see pro-choice rallies.

more than half the women are beyond their reproductive years, while the rest are gay.

never see many kids there, as opposed to pro-life rallies. I guess if you are pro-choice, bringing a kid along to a rally would be like inviting a jew to hitler's birthday party.

[TheAbstractor]

Mark L.: I have an abortion clinic right across the street from my synagogue, and get to see those rallies all the time, so I got a kick out of that comment.

[Peg C.]

Good for G.H.W. In my feminist days I would have had to be outraged. Now I'm just laughing.

[Runs with Peggy]

People are so thin-skinned these days. GHW's joke is funny. Bill Clinton just comes across as creepy. To me.

[Fred Beloit]

Now here is a serious and decent bipartisan proposal regarding how to stimulate the economy:

"Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let's say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-XXXXXXXX Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54% of the $900 billion -- $486 billion -- will be spent on infrastructure and pork as defined by Mr. Obama and the Democrats; 46% -- $414 billion -- will be directed toward tax cuts, as determined by me."

Guess from whom and from whence it came.

[Lala]

You're a day or two late with that, Fred.

[Lala]

What's up with CNN? Yesterday, Jack Cafferty likened Pelosi to Mao and now Campbell Brown says this -

(CNN) -- Unfortunately, we are again asking the president to explain why exactly he announced, with great fanfare, new ethics rules if he had no intention of abiding by them.

The Obama administration is yet again asking for a waiver to its very own rules about hiring lobbyists.

This time, it is the new treasury secretary, Tim Geithner. He wants a former lobbyist for Goldman Sachs to be his top aide at the Treasury Department.

My view is simple: Mr. President, if you want to hire former lobbyists because you think they are the best people to do the job, then hire former lobbyists. Just don't hold a big news conference first to tell us how your administration is going to be so different from previous administrations in that you won't be hiring lobbyists.

Don't make your disdain for lobbyists and your pledges that they won't wield influence in your administration a centerpiece of your campaign.
'No Bias, No Bull'

It's the hypocrisy and the double-talk that makes so many of us so cynical. Do what you think is best for the country. Just be straight with us about how you're going to do it.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Campbell Brown

[Independent]

President Clinton,

Here's a good rule of thumb: the first time you vaginally penetrate a government employee who is not your wife, you lose your ability to get away with that kind of joke.

[Jack Tanner]

Mark L - when the '04 Dem convention was in Boston they basically sealed off the city and downtown was practically deserted - except for the packs of feral lesbians protesting abortion - I was like if there's one thing you're never going to have to worry about it's an abortion. I had my sharp stick handy to keep them at bay.

[WBestPresidentEver]

Loved it !
Could it have been Helen Thomas ?
LOL

[Fred Beloit]

Lala, it came from today's WSJ, how can it be a day or two late? It is also the first item on Memeorandum.

[Deana]

I love this video!! President Bush is hilarious and Clinton is absolutely accurate in his assessment!

[Marco]

Hilarious, both of them. Am I the only person in the universe who likes both of these guys?

[Lala]

Fred, I believe I read it yesterday or it could have been the day before.

It's here (I left off the beginning)

Bi-Partisan Economic Recovery Package
by Cahnman | January 26, 2009 at 5:22 PM

http://www.thenextright.com/category/blog-tags/barack-obama

[Fred Beloit]

"* JANUARY 29, 2009

My[Rush Limbaugh's] Bipartisan Stimulus
Let's cut taxes, as I want, and spend more, as Obama would like.
* Article
more in Opinion »"

[Lala]

Fred, your version is a lot longer than mine and with a different title.

[artwebster]

No Marco, you are not the only one. I like them both also. I do not understand the pathological hatred of Clinton, especially since he has been out of office for 8 years. I know there is a certain about of hypocrisy with Clinton, but hell, we are all hypocrites to some extent. My suggestion is if a joke is funny: Laugh. No matter who tells it. I only thought liberals did not have a sense of humor, but it is beginning to look like conservatives have lost their's also.

[mark l.]

"I had my sharp stick handy to keep them at bay."

I would have brought a coat hanger to whip them back...
If I were arrested for assault, I'd tell the judge I was just trying to perform an abortion.

[Dan]

"it is beginning to look like conservatives have lost their's also."

I don't know, AW - I thought Clinton's initial deadpan reaction was pretty funny. I laughed at his line about as much as Bush's. As for his dog joke ... eh. But break dancing is out, so he's behind on that. And if dogs acted like kids dance today, you'd throw water on them, not de-worm them.

[TheSpartan]

"it is beginning to look like conservatives have lost their's also."

I don't know, AW - I thought Clinton's initial deadpan reaction was pretty funny. I laughed at his line about as much as Bush's. As for his dog joke ... eh. But break dancing is out, so he's behind on that. And if dogs acted like kids dance today, you'd throw water on them, not de-worm them.

Posted by: Dan | Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 01:36 PM

You need to watch some TV, breakdancing is back in.

And for the poster who said GOP women are good looking and Dems are not...Ann Coulter? Really? Look beyond the dye job...she's a hag.

[Lala]

Beautiful Condi Rice and beautiful Elizabeth Hasselback on the Ugly View show.

Condi has so much poise and charm

http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=266

[Lala]

It's funny as to how Sparky can't read. I said this -

"Conservative and Republican women are usually beautiful. Democrats have Helen Thomas, Bella Abzug, Joy Behar."

And Sparky, who has poor reading comprehension, thought I said this -

"And for the poster who said GOP women are good looking and Dems are not...Ann Coulter? Really? Look beyond the dye job...she's a hag."

[TheSpartan]

Lala, did you ever think that is has more to do with the possibility thar republican men won't listen to an unattractive woman? Meanwhile they'll give an idiot with a pretty smile or flippable blonde hair their absolute undivided attention regardless of how stupid she is?