Decision ‘08

Who Wears The Pants In Your Family?

In mine, it is, of course, my beagle. In the Clinton household, it ain’t Bill:

After being surprised by her husband’s role in the Dubai ports deal, Sen. Hillary Clinton has insisted that Bill Clinton give her “final say” over what he says and does, well-placed sources said.

The former President agreed to give his wife a veto to avoid his habit of making controversial headlines that could hurt her chances of returning to the White House, multiple sources told the Daily News.

“He knows it’s Hillary’s time now,” said an adviser close to both Clintons who expects to play a key role in her likely 2008 presidential campaign.

Hillary Clinton’s handlers are keeping a close rein on the former President’s schedule to try to prevent another embarrassing screwup like their competing roles in the Dubai ports deal.

While she was blasting the Bush administration for allowing Dubai to run six of the country’s ports, he was advising Dubai on how to sell the deal.

“Hillary has final say,” said the adviser, and the ex-President’s staff has been warned not to do or say anything without running it by the senator’s handlers.

“That was true in the White House during the [2000] Senate campaign,” recalled another longtime aide who stayed close to the ex-President after he left office. “If he said the sky was blue and she said the sky was purple, then the sky was purple.”

Hillary Clinton’s aides denied that her husband’s comments have been a liability but concede she is calling the shots.

My, my…anyone REALLY want to go through this dog-and-pony show for 4 years?…

9 Responses to “Who Wears The Pants In Your Family?”

1 dmac Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 10:44 am
The fun couple always said that his Presidency would be a partnership, and that turned out to be so. No reason to think that this latest incarnation would be any different.
2 too many steves Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 10:48 am
Most married men pretend they are in charge but all married men know, from personal experience, that it is just pretending and agree to go along with the ruse.
3 dmac Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 11:43 am
Since I’m married, I would tend to agree with your thesis - but don’t want to, so there!

Seriously, the country’s got to be jaded at this point with the Clinton - Bush dynastic impulses on display over the past 16 years. Time for some new blood on both sides, please.
4 Carol Johnson Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 11:56 am
Hee, hee!!! Guess we know who wears the pantsuit in that family. Can’t wait for Hillary to take up cigars!

Carol
5 topsecretk9 Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 11:58 am
I would know if my husband was involved with a Dubai port deal…you know “how was your day dear, what did you do?” kind of thing. Sounds like things haven’t changed in that marriage.
6 ordi Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 3:35 pm
In other words he is Pu**y Whipped! LOL
7 Gwedd Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 5:08 pm
Comrades,

As any married man will tell you, he ALWAYS gets the last words in any argument: “Yes Dear!”.

Approaching 21 years with “she who must be obeyed”.

Respects,

Gwedd
8 Martha Says:
March 21st, 2006 at 9:36 pm
I’ve been married almost 49 years and I sometimes let my husband think he’s the boss!
9 Sofia Says:
July 30th, 2006 at 12:31 am
I have been married for 4 yrs, and in that time my husband been ‘trained’ to treat me with respect. So, i would say i wear the pants…but he washes and irons them!!!
This is 2006 and most women are the head of the household these days.