Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton is being a butthead. Its sad. Very sad. In truth, Bill Clinton let Democrats down. He could have been one of the greatest Presidents of all time. He could have been on Mount Rushmore. He is that talented. But instead, he decided to get a blowjob from a fat girl. And as a consequence, he achieved almost nothing remarkable as his presidency descended into scandal. We almost gotten over that. A friend of mine that used to work in the Reagan and Bush I White Houses told me he thought Bill Clinton had, until recently, been the best former President of recent memory. His work on Katrina, the tsunami, and the Clinton Global Initiative reminded us all of why we elected him in the first place and started the heal the wounds of his last four years. But all that has been swept away in the last few weeks. I do not like this angry, lying Bill Clinton I have seen on my TV for the last few weeks. And neither do a few of his friends. Here's what Robert Reich, Clinton's Secretary of Labor, has to say:

"Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing no credit to the former President, his legacy, or his wife’s campaign. Nor are they helping the Democratic party. While it may be that all is fair in love, war, and politics, it’s not fair – indeed, it’s demeaning – for a former President to say things that are patently untrue (such as Obama’s anti-war position is a “fairy tale”) or to insinuate that Obama is injecting race into the race when the former President is himself doing it."

But none put it better, ironically, than Peggy Noonan. I few quotes from her latest article:

There are many serious and thoughtful liberals and Democrats who support Mr. Obama and John Edwards, and who are seeing Mr. Clinton in a new way and saying so. Here is William Greider in The Nation, the venerable left-liberal magazine. The Clintons are "high minded" on the surface but "smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard at the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four years."...

But the Clintons are tearing the party apart. It will not be the same after this. It will not be the same after its most famous leader, and probable ultimate victor, treated a proud and accomplished black man who is a U.S. senator as if he were nothing, a mere impediment to their plans. And to do it in a way that signals, to his supporters, How dare you have the temerity, the ingratitude, after all we've done for you?

That's exactly how I feel. I am seeing Hillary in a new way, and I am beginning to believe that there is no difference between the Clintons and the Bushes except their position on abortion. They are both ugly people who will do anything to win. And that's why I feel this election is not about Democrat versus Republican. It is about putting the last 2 decades behind us and starting new.