Bill Clinton hates being 60

Grimmlok · August 15th, 2006, 09:19 PM

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Bill Clinton hates it, but it is true: He will be 60 on Saturday, and he is often the oldest man in the room.

The former baby-boomer-in-chief and 42nd US president admitted at a world AIDS conference here -- at which delegates serenaded him with "Happy Birthday" -- that his approaching milestone filled him with trepidation.

"In just a few days, I will be 60 years old. I hate it, but it's true," the snowy-haired veteran of two tumultuous White House terms said.

"For most of my working life, I was the youngest person doing what I was doing. Then one day I woke up and I was the oldest person in every room," said Clinton, who was a youthful 44 when he was first elected president, in 1992.

"Now that I have more days behind me than ahead of me, I try to wake up with a discipline of gratitude every day," said Clinton, who left office in 2001 and has since devoted himself to his charitable foundation.

The man from Hope, Arkansas then reprised the tale of his own American dream, having been born into poverty and never knowing his father, who died before he was born, but then having a remarkable odyssey to the White House.

"I realize that I came from, by American standards, very humble circumstances when I was born in my home state at the end of World War II," said Clinton, an inveterate political campaigner.

"Our per-capita income was barely half the national average. And I had a totally improbable life.

"But I know I was not born in a log cabin that I built myself," Clinton said, turning his own life story into a parable for those worse off -- including the many developing-world AIDS victims stifled by poverty.

"I had teachers, a coherent community, a decent health care system. I knew that there would be some connection between the efforts I made in life and the results that I achieved," he said.

Clinton was the youngest US president to leave office, although he was not the youngest to enter the White House. That distinction belongs to his hero, John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/0....fesfqduy.html

darksithbunny · August 15th, 2006, 09:24 PM

Well he can always die now, can't he?

Voodoo Child · August 15th, 2006, 09:29 PM

Tough titties.

DitaPage* · August 15th, 2006, 09:32 PM

THIS is news? Boo hoo.

pacific breeze · August 15th, 2006, 09:44 PM

Christ, you guys are harsh. What did he ever do to you?

There ain't a lot of news/gossip this time of the year, it's traditionally a slow time. Feel free to dig up your own and post the threads along with the sources. The more the merrier.

Grimmlok · August 15th, 2006, 09:49 PM

uh oh, i think PB has a crush on Bill

pacific breeze · August 15th, 2006, 09:53 PM

Hehe. No, I guess I'm tired of people saying nothing is news. The story obviously came from some interview or other he gave at the huge AIDS conference taking place in T.O., it's not like he's shouting it from the rooftops.

Palermo · August 15th, 2006, 11:43 PM

I guess he could have kept on eating at Micky D's and not had that heart surgery, that would have taken care of this situation

Collaroy · August 16th, 2006, 01:42 AM

Wow, what's with all the hate? Compared to the president you guys have now, Clinton was a God.

pacific breeze · August 16th, 2006, 01:45 AM

^^I don't get it either. Clinton made mistakes, but he wasn't utterly incompetent like the current admin.

And as someone who's not 19 any more, I kind of resent the implication that if I say I'm getting older, that means I should just kill myself or go get run over or something. Sheesh.

Collaroy · August 16th, 2006, 01:53 AM

You know, if I had to choose between a competent but adulterous man or a good catholic man who covers up his own shortcomings in domestic policy (amongst others) by invading random countries and treading on such trifles as human rights (amongst others) to run my country... well, I wish every choice in life would be that easy. Ah well, enough political talk from me.

I hope he can get old in style. I kind of dig why it's weird for him to be one of "the older guys" when all his life people would go on and on about how youthful he is. Kudos for him speaking out against AIDS.

PrettyGirl · August 16th, 2006, 02:11 AM

I'm not getting into politics here, but as far as aging, I can't even imagine hitting 60. I'm sure getting older becomes a little more personal as we age...we know we won't be around forever and yeah, like clinton says we have more days behind us than ahead of us. It must be a strange feeling--you feel YOUNG, but reality tells you you're not. I'm not looking forward to that stage of life, but considering the alternative (being dead! lol), I guess I'll know first-hand one day. God willing, we'll all reach the age of 60.

I like Clinton. I wish him many many more years.

OCD · August 16th, 2006, 08:43 AM

The president isn't Catholic.

HWBL · August 16th, 2006, 08:50 AM

LOVE Bill. The world would be a better place today if he'd still been in office. Better to have a philandering President, than a totally incompetent, braindead, nitwit whose only accomplishment seems to be the destruction of half the planet and its people.

LynnieD · August 16th, 2006, 09:29 AM

I still love you Bill! You sexy beast you!