I don’t know what it is with ex-Presidents. It’s not like they need the money once they leave office. They’re all rich now, what with speeches, personal appearances, book deals. All of them.
Jimmy Carter is always in the news. So is George Bush. The one married to his mother. Only Ronald Reagan was good at staying out of everyone’s hair and avoiding the limelight. Maybe that’s because he didn’t even know who he was.
The worst is Bill Clinton. He’s worth $100-million and collects more money than any politician in history, including the Kennedy’s. He has access to women, heads of state, and can go anywhere and the public foots the bill.
So what does Bill Clinton really want?
A job.
He’s on the phone a couple of times a day trying to get me to promise him some kind of position in an Obama administration. He’s annoying. Worse than Senator Joe Biden who says he’ll endorse me if he gets a cabinet job or Ambassador to France. Clinton just doesn’t know when to quit, even when I told him there will never be another Clinton in the White House. Ever.
We screen his calls now. I’m saving up all his messages on the answering machine. I could write a small book and get a CBS television special just with all the audio recordings of Bill Clinton begging for work.
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