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LAS VEGAS — The one-time other woman in Hillary Rodham Clinton's life says she's considering casting her vote for the former first lady. "I can't help but want to support my own gender, and she's as experienced as any of the others — except maybe Joe Biden," Gennifer Flowers said in a recent telephone interview from her home in Las Vegas.
Flowers said she is still undecided, supports abortion rights and has long wanted to see a woman in the White House.
"I would love to see a woman president, I just didn't think it would be her," Flowers said.
In the 1992 presidential race, the former television reporter claimed to have had a 12-year affair with then-candidate and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. Clinton initially denied the allegation, but later, during his deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, acknowledged a single sexual encounter with Flowers.
Today the media frenzy, the book tour and the Penthouse shoot is behind her. The defamation suit she once filed against Hillary Clinton was dismissed. The 57-year-old lounge singer says she plans to stay far away from presidential politics.
"I don't have any interest whatsoever in getting back out there and bashing Hillary Clinton," Flowers said.
That's not to say she isn't watching the race closely. Democratic Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, she said, is "smart, sexy and experienced." She liked Clinton's response to a question about immigration at a recent debate in Las Vegas ("I like the way she was so definite about it, the others are trying to play to the middle.")
Mitt Romney is also on the short list, though in general "the GOP has yet to start impressing me," said Flowers, a registered nonpartisan who has recently voted Republican.
Flowers moved to Las Vegas about a year ago, after years of singing at a cabaret club in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina wrecked her home and her marriage, she said. Sin City offered her a chance to perform in Bottom's Up, a variety show at a casino in downtown Las Vegas.
She's now looking for other performing opportunities, involved in a plastic surgery reality series and has begun writing an advice column for a community Web site.
Hillary Clinton also contributes to the same site.
A typical Clinton campaign post: "Clinton Unveils Bold Plan to Tackle Energy and Climate Crisis."
Flowers' inaugural column: "The Secret Society of Undercover Button Pushers."
Flowers says she hopes to use the column to impart wisdom on how to overcome challenges.
"I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived," she said.
And she has no advice for Clinton.
"She wouldn't take any advice from me anyway. Looks like she's doing just fine on her own," Flowers said.
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{"commentId":1247902,"authorDomain":"IndependentVoter"}
And she has no advice for Clinton.
Maybe not in public.
{"commentId":1247902,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"IndependentVoter"}
- 3 votes
#1 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:19 PM EST{"commentId":1247950,"authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
Maybe not in public.
Great line, maybe they made a deal. How this is news? If this isn't the most idiotic pitch yet; who pays these campaign strategists? Is it all programmed in conjunction with Access Hollywood, FOX and the Inquirer?? Holy hell they must think we're all mindless and medicated.
The one-time other woman in Hillary Rodham Clinton's life says she's considering casting her vote for the former first lady. "I can't help but want to support my own gender,
Support my own gender, now there's a good plan for evaluating qualifications.
{"commentId":1247950,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"PamelaDrew"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1247972,"authorDomain":"jaybutler"}
Support my own gender, now there's a good plan for evaluating qualifications.
I like to support my own species in Presidential politics...
{"commentId":1247972,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"jaybutler"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":1248309,"authorDomain":"chasencash"}
I like to support my own species in Presidential politics...
You assume they are recogniseable as such. I have my doubts.
{"commentId":1248309,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"chasencash"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1248316,"authorDomain":"Rebecca-Yarowsky"}
How this is news? If this isn't the most idiotic pitch yet; who pays these campaign strategists? Is it all programmed in conjunction with Access Hollywood, FOX and the Inquirer?? Holy hell they must think we're all mindless and medicated.
Support my own gender, now there's a good plan for evaluating qualifications.
Ditto to all of the above, Pamela. I mean: Gennifer Flowers? Who is she apart from having had an affair with Clinton? A lounge singer. Hey. I've got nothing against lounge singers but where did they dredge this woman up? And I'm definitely not voting for Shillary because she has the same patooty I have.
We've devolved into making judgments about our leaders based on superficial criteria. Gender, color, height, dental work. In the old days--when women and African-Americans were united in common causes that addressed the critical issues facing our nation such as poverty, healthcare, civil rights, discrimination, equal justice under the law; when they advocated for the disenfranchised and unfairly persecuted . . . it made sense. There was a solidarity that you could count on and support.
But these days? If you want color and gender, vote for Barbara Lee (who, however, recently disappointed me with her support of HR 1959) or Cynthia McKinney whose unfortunate incident with a DC cop and unpopularity with the AIPAC lobby condemned her to relative obscurity or the Detroit judge Anna Diggs Taylor who ruled against the government's illegal wiretapping.
Of course they're not running. But they're on the "right" side. Condi Rice certainly isn't.
Anyway, my vote is going to a short, white man--Dennis Kucinich--whose principled stance on all issues and condemnation of the corporate monopoly won't win him any friends with the wealthy two percent but who speaks for Americans from all walks of life.
Wow. I've rambled on. Apologies. Back to Gennifer Flowers. Although--why?
{"commentId":1248316,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"Rebecca-Yarowsky"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":1247937,"authorDomain":"babin"}
Well thank goodness we know who Flowers is voting for and AP was helpful enough to announce it. I guess I'm voting for Clinton now!
{"commentId":1247937,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"babin"}
- 4 votes
#2 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:29 PM EST{"commentId":1247939,"authorDomain":"damiankd"}
Who cares what Gennifer Flowers thinks. Seems more like spam for vegascommunityonline than anything else.
{"commentId":1247939,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"damiankd"}
- 4 votes
#3 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:30 PM EST{"commentId":1247991,"authorDomain":"mattschwartz"}
Exactly. Why is this the top story on the front page? This is the most important, interesting thing happening right now?
{"commentId":1247991,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"mattschwartz"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1248331,"authorDomain":"Rebecca-Yarowsky"}
Why is this the top story on the front page? This is the most important, interesting thing happening right now?
Yeah, Matt, the Vine's definition of what qualifies as newsworthy seems to have taken a turn for the worse, in this case.
Kind of reminds me of AOL's "Top News" category. Its headlines usually feature the latest Britney Spears' fiasco and um . . . lemme check . . .oh-- tonight Donald Trump left some waitress a big tip. Wow. That's an incident of global importance.
:-O
{"commentId":1248331,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"Rebecca-Yarowsky"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1247940,"authorDomain":"spiffie"}
Politics makes strange bedfellows…so to speak.
{"commentId":1247940,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"spiffie"}
- 2 votes
#4 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:30 PM EST{"commentId":1247945,"authorDomain":"SimplyTRUE"}
OMG, talk about beating a dead horse. Why can't the Right Wing get over the fact that Clinton was a dog and banged other women. It's none of our business and I really really really don't care to re-visit ever name in his little black book. I guest next up is Paula Jones. Note to the Grand Old Party, Bill Clinton is not running for President.
{"commentId":1247945,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"SimplyTRUE"}
- 5 votes
#5 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:31 PM EST{"commentId":1247990,"authorDomain":"IndependentVoter"}
What has the Right Wing have to do with this story? NOTHING.
{"commentId":1247990,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"IndependentVoter"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":1248051,"authorDomain":"jaybutler"}
It must have been Hillary's "vast right wing conspiracy" that placed this story on the AP wire.
I do not see any republicans mentioned in the story at all.
{"commentId":1248051,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"jaybutler"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1248078,"authorDomain":"SimplyTRUE"}
IndependentVoter,
Do the math. Who could be behind this, lets see... Obama, no....Edwards, no...Hillary, maybe but no...the mass media complex that is controlled by the Grand Old Party, bingo!
{"commentId":1248078,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"SimplyTRUE"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1248095,"authorDomain":"IndependentVoter"}
Play Twilight Zone music.
mass media complex
I thought it was controlled by the Jews..or is it controlled by the people from Mars?
What are Tin Foil Hats selling for today?
LOL
{"commentId":1248095,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"IndependentVoter"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1248114,"authorDomain":"douglasq"}
@Independent Voter
Do you have any idea how public relations works? News editors don't have time to go after every story. When an outside source comes to them with a story that has been researched, written, and is all ready to go, if they have space, they will run with it.
Public relations is the art of creating bias without the appearance of bias. This is a way to remind the public of the things the GOP thinks will make the public hesitate about Hillary in the guise of a friendly little human interest/political story.
There's no way an editor assigned a writer to do this story out of the blue. This was a stringer who was backed by an opponent of Hillary (GOP or Democrat).
How do I know this? I did it for 6 years.
{"commentId":1248114,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"douglasq"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1248133,"authorDomain":"SimplyTRUE"}
IndependentVoter,
Man are you uninformed. Once upon a time, there was a law that did not allow one company (like FOX Media) to own a majority of TV stations, radio stations, and newspapers in the same media market. With a little (and really not much) arm twisting and horse trading between the "Contract on America" gang and Bill Clinton, they killed this law and opened the floodgates of the mass media complex. Now, companies like FOX and Clear Channel, control entire media markets and actively shut down stations and programs that don't spin their lies.
{"commentId":1248133,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"SimplyTRUE"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1247953,"authorDomain":"Wheel"}
People is this what we want to be reduced to? Who cares?
{"commentId":1247953,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"Wheel"}
- 2 votes
#6 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:33 PM EST{"commentId":1247968,"authorDomain":"babin"}
Thankfully I think 99% of us don't ;)
{"commentId":1247968,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"babin"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":1247993,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
Not to be snippy, but her hair is stuck in 1983.
I know--I had those bangs :P
{"commentId":1247993,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"geejay"}
- 3 votes
#7 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:46 PM EST{"commentId":1248012,"authorDomain":"adambecker"}
Well the photo IS from 1992. So maybe she's up to 1998-style hair now?
{"commentId":1248012,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"adambecker"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":1248337,"authorDomain":"Rebecca-Yarowsky"}
She definitely needs to get her roots touched up.
Heh.
{"commentId":1248337,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"Rebecca-Yarowsky"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":1250094,"authorDomain":"geejay"}
I didn't realize the photo was from '92...ah, well!
{"commentId":1250094,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"geejay"}
{"commentId":1248058,"authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
That Rove guy is every where these days.
He's out there gaming this thing. Giving unsolicited advice to Obama and the other Dem canidates. All relating back to Hillary. First he says that Hillary will be the nominee. Then there's advise from him on how to go after her. Now they'll start tilting up Bill's old flings, perhaps to inoculate Rudy against his record with mistresses and flings.
This has Rudy G. written all over it.
{"commentId":1248058,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"JStranahan"}
- 1 vote
#8 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 6:03 PM EST{"commentId":1248175,"authorDomain":"webquack"}
"I can't help but want to support my own gender"
Great, a vagina is an excellent reason to vote someone into the highest office of the land.
{"commentId":1248175,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"webquack"}
- 2 votes
#9 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 6:41 PM EST{"commentId":1248259,"authorDomain":"bluecollarbytes"}
Who in their right mind gives one cent for the political leanings of 'this woman'?
Next up: Monica Lewdinski? If nothing relse she could "send a message" to Bill by stepping out to support his helpmate.
{"commentId":1248259,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"bluecollarbytes"}
#10 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 7:17 PM EST{"commentId":1248294,"authorDomain":"ytmnd"}
Gennifer Flowers says she'd vote for Hillary Clinton, saying in her experience, Clintons generally poll really well
~Fark
{"commentId":1248294,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"ytmnd"}
- 1 vote
#11 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 7:32 PM EST{"commentId":1248376,"authorDomain":"sbutki"}
Next time we ask Newsvine to switch from AP to BBC or something more professional
let's use this story as exhibit A, please.
This is contrived news - a reporter saying, "I got a great idea for a story..." It's sort of
like calling Al Gore monthly to ask if he's sure he doesnt' want to jump into the race and
then reporting the results.
{"commentId":1248376,"threadId":"185898","contentId":"1146472","authorDomain":"sbutki"}
- 3 votes
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