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Tasteless as always, Bill Clinton Invokes the "Bad Dreams" of a Former P.O.W.

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ABC News
Jake Trapper

Former President Bill Clinton spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival where, in a conversation about global issues and philanthropy with Aspen Institute vice president Jane Wales, he made one comment that at least one attendee -- The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg -- took as a shot at presumptive GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

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excerpt2: Continued Clinton: "Every living soul on the planet has some often highly justified anger. Everybody… If you know anybody who was a P.O.W. for any length of time, you will see, you go along for months or maybe even years and then something will happen and it will trigger all those bad dreams, and it will come back, it may not last 30 seconds…"

But Mandela has avoided that, Clinton said, because he has "disciplined himself and his mind and his heart and his spirit."

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    Reply#1 - Tue Jul 8, 2008 8:35 AM EDT
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    I'll always give thanksgiving unto Obama for one thing....putting Bill Clinton in his place. If Obama loses in Nov. though, expect to see a rejuvenated reborn revitalized overly-excitable Bill Clinton stepping back in to take his rightful place, the place swiped by Obama, as Savior to Democrats.

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      Reply#2 - Tue Jul 8, 2008 8:45 AM EDT
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