Countdown
To new racism charge starts … now! Bill’s being mean again. ABC:Â Â
ABC News’ Sarah Amos reports that former President Bill Clinton — despite myriad promises he would stop assailing his wife’s opponent given how it has backfired on her — upped his harsh attacks today in Tyler, Texas.
“There are two competing moods in America today,” Clinton said. “People who want something fresh and new — and they find it inspiring that we might elect a president who literally was not part of any of the good things that happened or any of the bad things that were stopped before. The explicit argument of the campaign against Hillary is that ‘No one who was involved in the 1990s or this decade can possibly be an effective president because they had fights. We’re not going to have any of those anymore.’ Well, if you believe that, I got some land I wanna sell you.”
OK, so apparently Bill promised never to be mean to Obama ever again. I must have missed that when I was ROTFLMAO the last time various parties were attacking him for campaigning during a campaign. Talk about audacity. Or maybe I missed it because I was distracted, pondering the deeper mystery of whether it is possible in America in this enlightened age to run for president in opposition to a black man, or disagree with him once he is elected, without constantly being called a racist. The Democrats, ironically I suppose, are the ones who are test-driving that issue for the nation. Maybe not so ironically, given that historically, they don’t have that great a track record on equality related issues and in recent decades while talking all kinds of talk, seem more interested in policies that accentuate rather than diminish racial tensions, more interested in judging people by the color of their skin than their content of their character, less interested in actual advancement than its appearance. Anyway, Bill may be right, God’s testing them. Or maybe just messing with them.Â
Bluecrab notes it appears to be all about Bill. Fair enough. It’s his experience Hill’s appropriated.
Some mean-spirited comments follow that ABC “Political Punch” post, by the way. I like this one:
Gosh, you make it sound like having a family in the White House who makes Britney and K-Fed look functional is a bad thing. Tell me it’s not true.
I’m trying to figure out which side this guy’s on. Anti-Bush, anti-Obama, anti-Jihad. Not sure where you go with that. Clinton doesn’t quite make the anti-Jihad bar. McCain, I guess.
For eight years you dumped GWB on the rest of the World and now you wanna dump an inexperienced, sleazy lawyer by the name of Obama on it. You sure ain’t doing America’s standing in the World any good. I should think they’re laughing their heads off in the hills of Pakistan to have a brother by the name of Hussein become President of the USA.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 5:48 am on Saturday, February 16, 2008
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February 16th, 2008 at 9:26 am
“The explicit argument of the campaign against Hillary is that ‘No one who was involved in the 1990s or this decade can possibly be an effective president because they had fights.”
Actually, MY explicit argument against her is that she’s a stone cold socialist, and a member of a political party that I’ve loathed since I was a kid.
She can get in all the fights she wants. As a matter of fact, the more she gets in, the better as far as I’m concerned.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:43 am
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February 16th, 2008 at 11:36 am
I was distracted, pondering the deeper mystery of whether it is possible in America in this enlightened age to run for president in opposition to a black man, or disagree with him once he is elected, without constantly being called a racist.
It is…if you’re black also.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I’m beginning to wonder about that theory that Bill is subconsciously trying to sink Hillary. Talk about conflicted! He desperately wants back in the White House, but can’t stand the thought of Hillary being the boss.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
“Maybe not so ironically, given that historically, they don’t have that great a track record on equality related issues and in recent decades while talking all kinds of talk, seem more interested in policies that accentuate rather than diminish racial tensions, more interested in judging people by the color of their skin than their content of their character, less interested in actual advancement than its appearance.”
So true, Jules. My kids are taught about MLK and black history in school, which I enthusiastically support. But it seems to be left up to me to tell them to actually read or listen carefully to what MLK was saying; to pay attention to his actual words, the dream of equality he was describing. It’s up to me to tell them that they have nothing to feel guilty about, that this was in a time before their own (or even their parents time).
These “liberals” who think that Obama should not be criticized because of the color of his skin need to sit down and actually read some of MLK’s speeches again, rather than give them a glance and some lip service once a year.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
In the spirit of snark, I like P. Noonan’s characterization of Bill in yesterday’s WSJ.
To top it all off, Mrs. Clinton has, for 30 years, held deep respect for her husband’s political acumen, for his natural, instinctive sense of how to campaign. And he’s never let her down. Now he’s flat-footed, an oaf lurching from local radio interview to finger-pointing lecture. Where did the golden gut go? How did his gifts abandon him? Abandon her? Her campaign blew through $120 million. How did this happen?
February 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Yeah, and Hussein is a Sexist.
Man, this is getting good. Get me some popcorn … and, while you are up, a cold beer, too.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Issues? Actual plans for us to consider? Telling us how we are to pay for the various utopian policies that they want to foist upon us? Anybody give a damn about any of this? The MSM sure as hell don’t. They’re too busy talking about polls and race and gender, and Bill Clinton, all things that don’t tell us anything about the candidates except on these most inessential subjects.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Saltydog,
You can hardly blame them for not talking about substance, for two reasons. First, the differences between Hillary’s policy ideas and Obama’s are so infinitesimal that they could not be seen even with that new microscope that can photograph atoms. Second, if the voters understood the real import of their policies McCain would win in a landslide by noon on election day. Hillary’s and Obama’s only hope is that nobody examines their ideas seriously before the day after election day.
February 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Michael Lonie
Your last sentence, is the biggest fear.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
“Telling us how we are to pay for the various utopian policies that they want to foist upon us? ”
Same way they always do. They’ll steal it from you and me, using the government’s taxation powers, and give it to their supporters via various government programs.