[3고급용] 7 Bill Clinton: Hillary 'Will Be ... the Decider'

Bill Clinton: Hillary 'Will Be ... the Decider'
Former President Bill Clinton said
his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., would be an independent leader,
and added he would have a back seat role in the White House
should she be elected president in 2008.
"It's important to know
that she will be the policy maker, the decider,"
Clinton said in an interview
with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week." "
Hillary can't literally put me in the cabinet, as you know.
But I would be opposed to it,
even if she could," he said."
I think that I should be out there
helping her solve problems and giving my best advice,
maybe helping settle the domestic problems,"
Clinton said when asked
if voters will be facing a "buy one, get one free" scenario
that he touted when he ran for president.
Clinton and his wife have not always agreed.
As president, Clinton fought
to enact the North American Free Trade Agreement, a move
which Sen. Clinton has said hurt American workers.
President Clinton continues
to disagree with his wife's assessment."
What I think is that the trade agreements in these years,
in the Bush years, all the increase goes to trade,"
he said. "NAFTA's become sort of a symbol."
But Clinton went on to note
that NAFTA had already been negotiated prior to his presidency.
What I did was to get an extra commitment
to establish the North American Development Bank
and to do other things
to promote labor and environmental standards parallel to NAFTA,"
he said. "It's the best I could do."
But ultimately, he joked, "
I'm going to do whatever I'm going to have to do.
And I'll have an office wherever I'm given one.
If they want to give it to me
in the basement of the White House,
I'd be happy."
In discussing his wife's candidacy,
Clinton rejected ideas
that Sen. Clinton would not be able
to unite the country if elected."
She's been beat up on for 16 years.
I ask them, 'Do they really want to reward the Republican attack machine?'"
he said. "You become polarized in the American politics,
not if you attack somebody,
but if someone attacks you.
Is that what they really want to do? ...
When people know her, they won't feel that way."