Hillary Clinton Used to Dealing with Evil Men: Paging Bill Clinton

Hillary Clinton admits that her advisors want her to soften her shrill image.  The former first lady is desperately trying to get off to a good start for the 2008 elections with her 'conversations' with America.  On Sunday she slipped a bit, noting that she was used to dealing withy evil and bad men.  Paging Bill Clinton? 

Hillary Clinton Used to Dealing with Evil Men: Paging Bill Clinton

One questioner asked Clinton if her track record showed she could stand up to "evil men" around the world.  First Hillary stalled a bit by repeating the question.

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"The question is, we face a lot of dangers in the world and, in the gentleman's words, we face a lot of evil men and what in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men," Clinton said. She paused to gaze while the audience interrupted with about 30 seconds of laughter and applause.

It was a great moment.  Is it evil and bad to lie to your wife and the country about diddling the help?  Hilary tried to explain for the rest of the day that she didn't mean her hubby was the one to which she was referring.

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Meeting later with reporters, she was pressed repeatedly to explain what she meant. She insisted it was a simple joke.  "I thought I was funny," Clinton said. "You guys keep telling me to lighten up, be funny. I get a little funny and now I'm being psychoanalyzed."

She told reporters that evil men included al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who remains at large. "Isn't it about time we get serious about that?" she said.  Funny, when her hubby was offered bin Laden, by the government of the Sudan he took a pass.

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If Hillary really meant she was 'used to dealing with 'evil and bad men,' shouldn't she had forced her hubby to take bin Laden? 

Mansoor Ijaz wrote in the LA times that the offer, which would have brought Bin Laden to the Arab country as the first step of an extradition process that would eventually deliver him to the U.S., required only that Clinton make a state visit there to personally request Bin Laden's extradition. But senior Clinton officials sabotaged the offer, letting it get caught up in internal politics within the ruling family--Clintonian diplomacy at its best.