Bill Clinton did three events yesterday, and at the first, in Charleston, he got into a widely-reported tussle with reporters pressing him over whether he’s been too rough and too public in his comments about Barack Obama. I missed that event, but caught him at the second stop, in rural Kingstree. You can bet the advance and Secret Service were not going to letting any members of the media get close to him after the speech and long Q&A session he did. I slowly worked my way up to the rope line after the event was over and while Clinton was shaking hands and standing for photos, but at least three Clinton people gave me finger-across-the-neck signal and mouthed “no questions.” One interesting moment came toward the end of the question-and-answer period, however, when a young girl, probably no more than seven or eight, asked the president, “What happens when you get married?” Everyone reflexively burst into laughter, and Clinton pointed to the back of the room.
“You see all the press back there,” he began. “They put me through the wringer this morning. And everything I said then is about to pale to what I say now.“First of all, when you get married, if you're really lucky—if you are really lucky—then your husband or wife is your best friend, and you get to live with your best friend for the rest of your life. And Hillary is my best friend. “And if you’re even luckier, you get to have kids like you. The best moment of my life was that I was in the hospital with my wife when my daughter was born. The best thing about being married is having kids.”
--Tom Schaller
