President Bill Clinton
After Labor Day, Bill can do what Bill does best . . . campaign. Job one is to scare off any potential Democratic spoilers. Facing opposition in the primaries hurt Jimmy Carter in 1980. And let's not forget the job Pat Buchanan did on George Bush in 1992. Clinton's campaign staff is beating the war chest like a drum, warning any challengers: This is the big leagues, leave that farm league stuff at home. They've already raised $10 million, with another $10 mil expected before Thanksgiving.
Thusfar, no serious challengers have come out of the woodwork. But the party is worried that Jesse Jackson, or Bill Bradley will decide to run as independents and do to Bill what Ross Perot did to Bush in 1992. This has Bill's folks baring their teeth in Iowa, home of the first caucus, where Clinton's hired a high-rent Chicago consulting firm to run the show.
There's a new chapter in the stormy romance between Clinton and Dick Morris. Morris has been an F.O.B. since 1976, when he helped Bill become Governor of Arkansas. For the past few years, however, his biggest client was Republican Majority Whip Sen. Trent Lott, Newt Gingrich's closest ally in the Senate, and earlier this year Morris vowed to work as a consultant for Republicans only. But now he's suddenly earning $15,000 a month on Clinton's campaign, and some White House staffers have conveyed fears that Morris is running the show. Is Bill bedding down with the enemy?
Internet Resources for Clinton:
- CLINTON/GORE '96
- The official campaign site, it offers lots of virtual flesh-pressing, baby-kissing, and other tricks of the incumbent trade. Definately not the resource to turn to for objectivity, but you can amuse yourself with bells and whistles galore--like QuickTime video clips of Clinton/Gore campaign commercials (but be forewarned...the election may be over by the time you're finished downloading them.)
- The White House
- This glossy government website is a good place to find speeches, documents and biographical information about the entrenched incumbents. And where else can you download a picture of Hillary standing with the Easter Bunny?
- Scandals of the Clinton Administration
- This page is compiled by Preston Crow at Dartmouth University. It contains articles relating to just about everything that gives Clinton the "willies."
- Clinton Administration News and Info
- Yahoo's list of Clinton links.
- The "unofficial" Bill Clinton:
- Biographical information, opinions and suggestions for the Big Man. And, you guessed it, even more Clinton links.
- Clinton, Yes!
- "Unabashedly pro-Clinton," this site has tons of articles that explain why Bill is best. It also includes information about and links to some of Clinton's archrivals.
- "The Emperor's New Polls"
- In the Sept/Oct 1995 Mother Jones, Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Klein explains the ramifications of Bill's handshake with Newt and the infiltration of Dick Morris into the White House.
- "So, Comeback, Kid"
- Mother Jones' November 1994 cover story about the Clinton Presidency. Plus 20 pundits tell Bill how to stage a comeback.
- alt.politics.clinton
- Talk about Bill.
- alt.president.clinton
- Talk some more about Bill.