# Bill Clinton on The Daily Show **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 23, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565 "2012-09-23T03:06:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/1 "2012-09-23T03:06:05Z")
Regardless of your politics, you really ought to give this interview a listen. ---
**Author:** ![getitrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@getitrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/getitrite)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/2 "2012-09-23T03:39:31Z")
Heard it, loved it, the Commander of explaining stuff, and he even gave the reasons, GREAT. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/3 "2012-09-23T04:03:38Z")
GW Bush is [on the campaign trail](http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/09/george-w-bush-goes-back-to-second-grade-in-houston/) as well. I hope those young folks in Houston don’t take his advice to heart though - "study hard, exercise, and vote " I’m pretty sure that Grade 2 students are not allowed to vote. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/4 "2012-09-23T13:13:29Z")
Not after the new voter ID laws are rolled out. Before that, I’m sure there were droves of kindergärtners attracted to garish colours and Democratic promises of not having to work as a janitor. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/5 "2012-09-23T14:03:49Z")
I didn’t see it, but I read a few things on it. Did he really say that he had a wife who travelled so he was often home alone? Bill, you haven’t lived in the same STATE with Hillary since you left the White House… ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/6 "2012-09-23T14:10:03Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I didn’t see it, but I read a few things on it. > > Did he really say that he had a wife who travelled so he was often home alone? > > Bill, you haven’t lived in the same STATE with Hillary since you left the White House… His idea of a little joke. He’s not prone to making them often, particularly when he’s focused. Stewart’s little japes just bounced off of him with no noticeable effect. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/7 "2012-09-24T20:09:31Z")
Yes, he did seem to have zero sense of humor in the part of the interview I saw. That’s fine, he had some interesting and important things to say, but he could barely crack a smile. Also, he has clearly lost weight, so maybe he’s cranky. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/8 "2012-09-24T20:16:29Z")
Yes, that was vintage Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/9 "2012-09-24T20:34:46Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Regardless of your politics, you really ought to give this interview a listen. I agree completely, his DNC speech too. I would really like to hear a great fact filled argument for Romney. I mean that sincerely, in print or video has a great case for him been made? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/10 "2012-09-24T20:52:45Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Also, he has clearly lost weight, so maybe he’s cranky. > Roddy He dying. Also Hillary is going to divorce him so he’s not so chipper these days. [http://www.showbizspy.com/article/249503/bill-clinton-is-dying.html](http://www.showbizspy.com/article/249503/bill-clinton-is-dying.html) Apparantly. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/11 "2012-09-25T03:31:20Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > He dying. Also Hillary is going to divorce him so he’s not so chipper these days. > > [http://www.showbizspy.com/article/249503/bill-clinton-is-dying.html](http://www.showbizspy.com/article/249503/bill-clinton-is-dying.html) _“Bill has lost a shocking amount of weight and insiders say he has just six months to live,” dished a mole._ 😃 Who could ever doubt that? The veracity of dishing moles is unquestionable. ---
**Author:** ![getitrite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@getitrite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/getitrite)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/12 "2012-09-25T17:48:25Z")
any thing on the net is the truth, there is no need for fact checking, nothing to see here, all childern go to heaven, How many more do you need ? ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/13 "2012-09-25T17:55:43Z")
He intentionally dropped weight for Chelsea’s wedding a few years ago and I believe he’s said he’s a near vegetarian now for health reasons. Edited to add article: He’s vegan: [http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/18/bill.clinton.diet.vegan/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/18/bill.clinton.diet.vegan/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/14 "2012-09-25T18:00:20Z")
Yeah, he had two open-heart surgeries since he left office and that rang the bell…he went vegan and lost a LOT of weight. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/15 "2012-09-25T18:05:28Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > He intentionally dropped weight for Chelsea’s wedding a few years ago and I believe he’s said he’s a near vegetarian now for health reasons. > > Edited to add article: He’s vegan: [http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/18/bill.clinton.diet.vegan/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/08/18/bill.clinton.diet.vegan/index.html) I’ve heard the vegan thing before, and I just want to say that a world where Bill Clinton doesn’t shove Quarter Pounders gleefully into his face is a place I just don’t want to live in anymore. Everything I held dear as a wide-eyed youth is just evaporating before my very eyes. ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/16 "2012-09-26T15:10:10Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > I agree completely, his DNC speech too. > > I would really like to hear a great fact filled argument for Romney. I mean that sincerely, in print or video has a great case for him been made? Well Obama is THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER ™ because he is a Muslim born in Kenya and he created the deficit because he hates America and Romney is not Obama. What more facts do you need? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-clinton-on-the-daily-show/635565/17 "2012-09-26T16:43:12Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > GW Bush is [on the campaign trail](http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2012/09/george-w-bush-goes-back-to-second-grade-in-houston/) as well. > > I hope those young folks in Houston don’t take his advice to heart though - "study hard, exercise, and vote " I’m pretty sure that Grade 2 students are not allowed to vote. Apparently he takes his cues from Hulk Hogan now instead of Jesus.