Bill Clinton was on the Daily Show last night.
I really like Jon Stewart's interviews with politicians. His celebrity ones, not so much, but with politicians he mostly asks interesting questions and gives them time to give full answers. The problem is he usually runs out of time on the show, but now he just puts the rest of the interview on the web. I really question the format of a show that starts with a half an interview on air at 11:30 and then points me at their web site for the rest of it, but doesn't put it up til the next morning.
Anyway, he had Clinton on last night and mostly Clinton just talked and Jon nodded his head. Clinton spoke quite well. If he were running I'd vote for him. I know he's not going to convince any crazy right winger, tea partier or not, but this is the kind of stuff that would bring out Democrat voters and should be influencing actual politicians to enact policy and win the public debate to build political capital.
I really want to know why he's the only one speaking like this and why he's doing it on the daily show and not in some bigger forum. Maybe Jon can get him to speak at the
Rally to Restore Sanity.
The first two clips are what was aired, the second two are only on the web site and are more interesting regarding politics.
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