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BBC are reporting from US networks that Bill Clinton, complaining of heart trouble, has been checked into hospital in NY.

WTF?

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Reports: Clinton in NY Hospital for Bypass Surgery
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton will undergo quadruple bypass surgery later on Friday, television networks reported.

ABC and CBS television reported that Clinton, 58, had checked in to the hospital for quadruple heart bypass surgery.

CNN reported that the former Democratic president was undergoing tests at New York Presbyterian hospital after experiencing chest pains

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)

holy shit

― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Yikes! Go Bill go!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:36 (twenty years ago)

"New York Presbyterian" refers to two different hospitals.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago)

He's at Columbia Presbyterian, not New York Hospital (Cornell)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago)

"dumb journalists"

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago)

that's what I figured, since Columbia's near his office.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago)

right. (also, NYH seems more ominous to me because of the number of famous people who spent their last days there, Nixon most prominently)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago)

where was Warhol?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago)

same place. Jackie O too, I think

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

get well soon

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

He's probably just trying to get some nurse-tail.

― Huck, Friday, 3 September 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't that be the shit though for the GOP if Clinton died during the campaign?

― Huck, Friday, 3 September 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

That is the elephant in the waiting room.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago)

it would be shittier for Dems, the way Reagan's death was shitty (or was it?) for GOPers

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

well, he's in a pretty good city to get bypass surgery

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah I don't know how active Bill's been aside from speaking at the DNC, but it would suck to not have him available to work on the campaign. Plus, y'know, I like him as a person (if not always as president) and don't want him to die.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Franken has the best response: "oy"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Jackie Onassis and Richard Nixon died in that same hospital within the same week, if I remember that right.

Bush speech? Someone give a speech last night?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

this is all too morbid (not like it's not my fault). people have surgery all the time.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah he'll probably be fine. But the risk is there.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 3 September 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he's still in his fifties, right? He should be fine.

― Huck, Friday, 3 September 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago)

who cares if he's fine?

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Obviously, a lot of people, dumbass.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

xpost

So much for compassionate conservatives.

― Huck, Friday, 3 September 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

get well bill!

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)

quad bypass is performed very competently in hundreds of of hospitals around the country.

although what keeps coming to mind is that hilarious skit Phil Hartman did on SNL with Clinton campaigning through McDonald's.

― don carville weiner, Friday, 3 September 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago)

ouch, that stung. I don't think I will be able to sleep at night now that I know I'm dumb. Anyway, I don't understand why it matters or not if he lives, all it is going to do is cut his lecture tour short

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I'd say the same thing if it were a NZ politician (but then no-one really would care) so it is not a racist thing.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

new zealand's a helluva country

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago)

ask chelsea

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

(x-post)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

A bypass doesn't seem too out of the ordinary for someone of his age, health, and former stress level; here's hoping he's fine.

Now watch Dick Cheney make an announcement tonight: "One fucking bypass? Liberal pussy."

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago)

"I DON'T EVEN HAVE A HEART ANYMORE"

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry if Bill Clinton is the cather of anyone on this board though, he seemed to get around. i wish Helen Clarke did that

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago)

quadruple? 4 at a time? his profligacy is still beyond all reason

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago)

forgive us for thinking fondly of the president who didn't come off like he'd be the last ever

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:14 (twenty years ago)

great typo, it was supposed to read father...

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

M.D., saying that someone's life doesn't matter when they are being rushed to the hospital for serious emergency surgery seems like a pretty dumbass thing to do, no matter who the person is.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

go back to monarchy, its the only way.

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

i think we did

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

Bill Clinton matters to many Americans the way the Pope matters to people.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:16 (twenty years ago)

http://members.ij.net/captbob2112/troll.jpg

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:17 (twenty years ago)

It is sad that people become ill, get life threatening conditions etc, but people care beyond all reason if it is a public figure. I do not wish a quadruple bypass on anyone, but nor am I going to claim to feel any more compassion for Bill than any other person I do not know. I merely resent the fact I am supposed to care because he has been on TV more than every other poor fucker in the same situation

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

for me? its beautiful

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:19 (twenty years ago)

and yet you care enough to let everyone here know you don't care. thanks for caring.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

do you think you could take your not-supposing-to-care to some other thread then?

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

he's not a grapefruit. he has been on TV because of his words and ideas. they matter to people.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:23 (twenty years ago)

anyway fuck this, and fuck you

get well bill!!

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 5 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Pardon me, "no one" on this thread has claimed that it's anything other than vaguely too bad.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Yes that's true, but then she said that she'd say the same were it an NZ politician, so I read that to mean that she personally did not care.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:35 (twenty years ago)

some of us, on both the left and right, are crazier than that, perhaps - we are psychically injured when, variously, public figures are sick, nations go to war, fetuses are aborted, mountains or rivers are damaged by human intrusion, convicts are executed, artworks are stolen or destroyed, 'offensive' artwork is displayed, a public figure has an affair, 'honor' is challenged, etc.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:36 (twenty years ago)

OMG.

I would submit that Clinton is something of (to a far lesser extent) a secular religious leader to civically-engaged Americans who largely are not white Protestants, the way that Bush is to those who largely are.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I don't care about football (or soccer) in the US either. I'll go tell them. Cuz they need to know.

gabbneb, our respect for Clinton doesn't come out of fear or a belief in divine infallibility.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:39 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry if any of you were pissed off, I really just thought she was saying she didn't care and that y'all were getting too hyped up about it. I retract my prior statement.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago)

yes, well I was just thinking I ought to have kept that comment to myself but I took the thread at face value, that is disseminating news rather than an opening for submissions of whole hearted good will. Also I think the comment was taken more seriously than I meant it, but it might be argued that someone's bypass is not an excuse for levity. sorry for offending some of you.

But I can't help wondering. Would it be funny if it happened to George Bush?

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

NB: I've just realized that adding "who cares" to the end of ILX threads is totally hilarious:

What did you REALLY want to be when you grew up? Who cares?
Alex in NYC *IS* a Daddy. Who cares?
Do you ever feel you're being ignored? Who cares?

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago)

omg I sound like Kylie Mole

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Friday, 3 September 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

I hear ya Gabbneb, it's just a little frightening to deify someone like that. I'm not saying it doesn't exist (or that I don't subconsciously engage in it with, say, some members of my family), it's just another one of those tossaway lines that frighten me at face value.

― don carville weiner, Friday, 3 September 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago)

My kids love this book.

― don carville weiner, Friday, 3 September 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago)

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/assets/product/0395070627.gif

― don carville weiner, Friday, 3 September 2004 16:52 (twenty years ago)

ha haha. there will be a special place for you in hell, don¡

― dysøn (dyson), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

you should see the part in that book where Curious George gets high on ether.

― don carville weiner, Friday, 3 September 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago)

it's just a little frightening to deify someone like that

I was being hyperbolic. Imagine that.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 3 September 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago)

get well bill!

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:31 (twenty years ago)

(eep. I knew a guy who died from drinking a Victorian bottle of ether he had in his flat, while so sloshed he must have forgot what it actually was)

I expect Clinton will make light of it. "I've only had the one bypass from all those gutbombs; Cheney's obviously had four from eating all that BACON."

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:41 (twenty years ago)

i think you're giving him too much credit for wit.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago)

i'd like to think him above comparisons to cheney.

― dysøn (dyson), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm pulling for Bill!

I know he's "just" a politician, but something about him makes me more hopeful for American politics in general.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 3 September 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Someone with photoshop skills slap together a "Win one for teh Bubba" shirt asap please thx.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago)

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) President Bush on Friday wished Bill Clinton ''best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery.''

''He's is in our thoughts and prayers,'' Bush said at a campaign rally.

Bush's audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them.

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I saw a clip of this on CNN. The crowd behind him applauded. I didn't hear any boos.

Maybe they were going Billlllllllllllll......

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago)

haha freep is going apeshit over that ap quote!

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 3 September 2004 19:29 (twenty years ago)

freep urlz?

― gainfully employed (ex machina), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago)

I saw that clip too, they did applaud.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 3 September 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago)

haha freep is going apeshit over that ap quote!

Most entertaining.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:52 (twenty years ago)

F A CLIP

Lying is the only way to win, see: the President.

― dean? (deangulberry), Friday, 3 September 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

according to the uk guardian they were just going "ooooooooooh."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago)

why does anyone bother reading free republic at all?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 3 September 2004 23:36 (twenty years ago)

He is marvellous. So is his wife.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 4 September 2004 09:38 (twenty years ago)

NSFW -- THE THREAD

― MATH BLASTER MYSTERY! (ex machina), Saturday, 4 September 2004 12:44 (twenty years ago)

menelaus darcy explained herself, adequately i think. and apologised for offence that may have been caused. she is neither a dumbass nor a troll, she is in fact my supersmart awesome flatmate who has been posting here since the very early days! surely common courtesy would be for those who called her such silly names to apologise too?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago)

why does anyone bother reading free republic at all?

It's actually pretty interesting to see what ridiculous things people are willing to say when they think no one is watching.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago)

He is marvellous. So is his wife.

they play to each other's strengths.

― youn, Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago)

sorry, that sounds overly familiar.

― youn, Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:44 (twenty years ago)

This thread is fucking retarded.

Bill Clinton now lives across the street from me! Thanks, heart problems! I'm kind of glad I'm not there to be honest, the fucking press probablly sits around now, with the old dudes playing chess and the stickball kids.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:07 (twenty years ago)

...just like a spike lee movie!

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:36 (twenty years ago)

It is a nasty thought of poor Bill laying there after surgery with tubes up his nose, up his arms, up his peter. God help him this week.

I don't want to sound maudlin, but today is September 5. I remember barely three years ago after the attacks, I was at work half-distracted and the television was on. I happened to turn around and there was this woman, staring into the camera, clutching some Kinkos-color-copied "LOST" flyer of a loved one. She's going on about how he worked in the Trade Center, but maybe the trains were running late, at any rate, she hadn't heard from him since the disaster, and she's clearly about to lose it. The camera pans back and there standing next to her on the street corner is BILL CLINTON. He puts a meaty arm around her, and she just wailed into his chest. I don't remember what happened next.

Say what you will about the guy, and there is plenty to say, but if there's one thing that I never thought was a lie was that he was capable of feeling our pain.

Anyway. Hope all goes well this week.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago)

yeah.

I too remember Bill being there during that awful time, PP. Thanks for recalling that.

Here's hoping the guy comes through this.

― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 5 September 2004 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Bill Clinton now lives across the street from me!

when did you move to chappaqua (or did clinton move to NYC sometime after he and hillary moved to chappaqua)?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:18 (twenty years ago)

Maybe he's got a little side pad in the city. I hear he made a little cash from his book, after all.

PP OTM. As president, he coulda been a little more lefty for my taste, but I ***never*** doubted that he gave ten or more damns.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:51 (twenty years ago)

Worth noting that of late he's copped to at least one major foreign-policy letdown by his administration. I can't think of any other, ahem, recent president who's done the same.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 5 September 2004 06:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand why it matters or not if he lives

you must have had a pretty fucked up childhood then.

Would it be funny if it happened to George Bush?

probably not to his friends and family. i mean, i hate the guy, but i don't want him to die.

― stevie (stevie), Sunday, 5 September 2004 07:43 (twenty years ago)

"Bill Clinton now lives across the street from me"=Bill Clinton is currently stationed in an NYC hospital for the time being, ie the now bit.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Sunday, 5 September 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago)

i hate the guy, but i don't want him to die

A kinder, more outwardly-directed Nirvana.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 September 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Reports: Former President Clinton Recovers From Successful Heart Surgery
Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is recuperating in a New York hospital from a successful quadruple bypass surgery yesterday that his doctors said was necessary to prevent him from suffering a heart attack.

Clinton, 58, is recovering well from the four-hour operation and within weeks may be able to work, Dr. Allan Schwartz, chief of cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, said at a press conference yesterday. He is expected to remain in the hospital for four to five days, his doctors said.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

yay bill!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

good news

― Reed Moore (diamond), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what kind of advice he gave Kerry when he met with him before his surgery. I wonder if Kerry goes back to the topic of Vietnam for personal or strategic reasons. It must be hard to let comments pass, but McCain's position -- trying to get over it -- seems best. They both seem like effective campaigners, but Clinton seems to have the advantage of giving and receiving public good will. Does this have anything to do with character? Somehow I don't think so. It seems more conscious and deliberate than that.

― youn, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:31 (twenty years ago)

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