Dartmouth Students Walk Out on Bill

[MadBadger]

Dartmouth Students Walk Out on Bill
By Jose Antonio Vargas
HANOVER, N.H. -- About thirty minutes into Bill Clinton's nearly two-hour stop here at Dartmouth College, a steady stream of students started walking out of the venue.

Moments later, Clinton -- his voice hoarse, sometimes cracking -- took arguably the toughest question of the night, courtesy of a tall, blond 19-year old freshman wearing a bright red sweater. "My main concern is, if Hillary were elected, it would create a dynastification of American politics. Bush, Clinton, Bush. What do you think?" asked Sebastian Ramirez, standing less than a hundred feet from the former president.

Clinton responded, to rolling laughter across the room, "I'm not responsible for the 12 years that the American people gave to the Bushes." He continued: "I actually tried to talk Hillary into leaving me when we were in law school, that's the God's truth. I told her, 'You have more talent for public service than anybody in my generation that I have met... I shouldn't stand in your way.' She looked at me and said, 'Oh, Bill, I'll never run for office.'"

That got a few cheers from the crowd of about 600, most of them students, with their backpacks and books in tow. But many of the students in the room, judging from more than two dozen interviews, are supporters of Sen. Barack Obama. They plan to vote for him tomorrow night.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/07/dartmouth_students_walk_out_on.html

[Colobo]

1. Bill is cranky.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

2. Why did they go at all if they just wanted to walk out?

Makes no sense.

[goldcanyonaz]

4. Obama strategy. It got posted here, didn't it?

[MadBadger]

5. Wanted to see what he was about, what he would say?

Maybe they walked out when they realized that he was only gonna talk about himself.

[Nailzberg]

8. They're college students, they have classes.

I'm sure Bill is used to people coming in and listening to him speak for two hours. Hell, I got nothing to do most days (damn writers strike), I'd listen to Bill for two hours.

But college kids have classes to attend. So they are able to get in, hear what he's got to say, but they gotta get going again. Doesn't seem that unusual.

[WinkyDink]

9. Oh, please. Hearing a FORMER PRESIDENT is worth ten of whatever classes

they were going to.
Understating it.

[Nailzberg]

11. And they got a chance to. But after thirty minutes, gotta run

Call it the attention span of a 19 year old, call it not wanting to be late for first day of classes. They DID show up to listen, but I don't expect them to hang out for a two hour event when there are classes. I've worked these kinds of events. Former president or not, it's hard for people to stick around for two hours for a daytime event. If this happened during an evening appearance, I would say differently.

[speedoo]

3. I hold him partly responsible for 8 years of the chimp.

Al Gore had the 2000 election stolen from him, but there was no way the chimp gets close enough to Gore for the theft to occur without Monicagate.

[hedgehog]

6. I thought it was against DU rules to even think, let alone suggest

that such a thing was possible!












:sarcasm:


I think Al paid for Bill's sins. People weren't willing to impeach, but they were sick of the show.

[Cameron27]

7. I don't hold him responsible at all

for whatever Gore encountered. By the time Gore started his campaign, the country was fed up with the over-reaction of the GOP towards Clinton. Gore didn't have to turn his back on Clinton, all he had to do was turn it around and point out that never has a man paid so dearly for his infidelity that was no one's business in the first place.

[Bobbieo]

10. Oh, if we had it to do all over again., we'd do it all over Bush!