By Andrew Cline on 4.28.08 @ 12:07AM
Former President Clinton suggests Obama, Clinton families go on ABC's "Wife Swap."
Citing President Bush's recent cameo appearance on NBC's "Deal
or No Deal," former President Bill Clinton today suggested that his
wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, might want to appear on a network show,
too, "like, I dunno, maybe 'Wife Swap' or something, you know, just
to mix it up."
Speaking to a crowd in Evansville, Ind., before the Indiana
primary, Clinton said he saw the reaction President Bush got when
his face popped up on the video screen on "Deal or No Deal," and he
thought his wife might generate a similarly positive reaction were
she to switch places with Sen. Obama's "very attractive" wife,
Michelle, for a week.
"Come on now, who wouldn't want to see that?" Clinton asked,
presumably rhetorically. "Hillary and Barack havin' to spend a week
together as husband and wife while campaigning against each other?
It'd be great! And me and Michelle having to spend a week together
being campaign spouses, just sittin' at home on the couch, all
lonely, waiting for a phone call from the road most nights, then
going on the trail, spending lots of nights stuck with nothing to
do in nice hotel suites that have big Jacuzzi tubs and fully
stocked mini bars? Oh, man, why didn't I think of this
before?!"
A spokesman for ABC said that although the network would "be
thrilled" to have either of the presidential candidates on a show,
he said he wasn't sure the network could afford the liability
insurance to cover President Clinton's week with Michelle
Obama.
"President Clinton alone for a week with the beautiful wife of
his wife's political opponent -- what could possibly go wrong?" the
spokesman said.
Sen. Clinton refused to comment on her husband's idea. But she
did take the opportunity to congratulate former New York Yankees
slugger Don Mattingly, an Evansville native, on becoming the
Yankees' new manager. Informed by a reporter later that the job of
managing the senator's favorite baseball team had actually gone to
former Yankees catcher Joe Girardi, Clinton said she simply
"misremembered." She added that next time she would "hit that one
out of the large building with seats in it where people watch
sports teams compete against each other."
topics:
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Sports, NATO
