Letters to the Editor
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This continues with the Clinton and Baby Boomer theme of having discovered everything for the first time including now. . .middle age
Yeah you are getting older, Bill. You're not as sharp as you used to be. Nor is Hillary. Again no one's saying she wouldn't be a great Senate Majority Leader or any of a dozen other posts.
But presidents, no.
And I don't feel bad saying that because it's Hillary's campaign that established this absurd 3 a.m. in the morning ringing red phone standard.
You yourself claimed she had a "senior moment" and forgot something the other day. The presidency if anything, is becoming more intensive and fast-moving. We live in a 24-hour a day world now. Sorry.
So yeah, in that respect, age matters. Someone should stop him before he totally destroys her candidacy. Or tell him to at least not do it in North Carolina where 25% of the electorate is between 18 and 29. It ain't gonna help.
Nor did his saying young people were "naive" enough to fall for Obama the other day. The generational war, which I've always argued the Clintons started and persist by comments like this, have done nothing to help her. They should cut it out. Otherwise it's absurd to think those you're dissing are going to come around to you.
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Who wouldn't love Bill Clinton?
Who wouldn't love Bill Clinton?
He's so wry and self-deprecating. An intellectual Everyman. AND, so politically astute! So dedicated to his wife's success! So forgiving! So understanding of the changing nature of politics!
A true political genius!!
And the man who gives new meaning to Andre Gide's statement:
“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity”
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Feeling a little 'soylent' green around the gills
Nothing like the Libertyson's of this blog to make sure the 50-something year olds don't get any crazy ideas about being still in the game...hey Libertyson, don't forget to forward my absentee voting form to the nursing home just in case you find you need us in the GE...
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Trying to Keep It Alive
The press just loves this story. Can't get enough of it. A real horse-race, neck and neck, and all that. But it just aint so. Sorry to have to tell you, children, but there aint no Santa, and this contest is over. Obama will have the most pledged delegates, and no matter how you twist the numbers that don't matter (Florida somehow counts in the popular vote after all?), the superdelegates will not deny Obama the nomination he has already earned. Why? Because the Democrats cannot win the Presidency without the black vote (Last Dem President to carry the white vote? LBJ!), and to give Hillary the nomination will cost the Dems the black vote in 2008, if not for a generation. So please stop telling these bedtimes stories, to put all the children to sleep. We here are wide awake, and we are about to elect our first African-American President!
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Outlaw Primaries?
What happened Walter?
You used to be a great journalist, but since you started drinking the kool-aid you turned into a hack.
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Again Using a Complicit Media
Even though I am voting for Obama I went to see Clinton when he came to my small Pa town. To my amazement the crowd was sparse. Net out the security, local pols that endorsed him and the Union guys paid to be there, the hall would have been nearly empty. But you wouldn't know that from the press the next day. Carefully dressed and staged photos and stenography at its best would make one think we witnessed a Gettysburg address before a host of rabid voters.
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Clinton's act is old and tired
and I am totally uninterested in hearing how great he is and what he did for America.
What he did is cram NAFTA down our throats. He destroyed the Democratic brand with triangulation. His inability to keep his zipper zipped was a mistake that Democrats still pay for.
I defended this piece of shit for years against republicans and other democrats who could not stand his moral depravity. Now I understand their ire.
Go away, Billary, and don't let the door hit you on the butt on the way out.
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The Clinton name
Hillary would not even be considered a serious candidate if her name was not Clinton and she could not rely on Bill's experience as her own. Obama is drawing record crowds all over PA. Obama is now and tomorrow. The Clinton's are yesterday.
Besides nobody wants Bill back in the white house. He is not an asset to Hillary.
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PA Primary On Tuesday will Kill Bill
Even if Obama lost by a slim margin, he will still win. That will indoubtedly kill Bill and his pumped up legacy of being in bed with the GOP most of his administration. The real scandal was not Monica Lewinsky
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a limp Big One
He never won 50% of the electorate. He lost congress, and undercut Gore with his knob job for the ages. thanks bill. Now, go away. And he's a political genius? FDR must have been god.
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I'm sure it doesn't matter either way
Every President accomplishes something between 0 and 20% of what they promise and some don't even promise that much. For my 20% I really couldn't care who gets the job. Oh it's a holy war here at Salon but one would expect that.
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Hey JackSmith
Oh I see it's cause I'm an idiot that I don't like nepotism and dynasty building not because I believe in democracy.
Are you saying that if the Clintons don't win then we won't get the benefit and aid that they can provide on all these issues.
I'm sorry to say that I have a more charitable view of the Clintons than you do and I believe that they will help Obama accomplish these things because it is the right thing to do. And if they don't screw em. The time to change politics is this election and we don't have time for incremetalism
Love the Clintons, check out Bill's speech for Martin Luther Kings widow , Coretta King as an example. But I don't think it makes someone an idiot to believe that someone else could lead.
The Clintons are not the democratic party and your message and tone is repellant to me.
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JackSmith
Name me one other job where being a wife counts as experience.
I have an MBA in Finance and a husband who is a CFO. We talk over issues of his job, but I'd be laughed out of any job interview if I suggested his accomplishments should be considered as part of my credentials.
Hillary's health care initiative failed. I hope she learned something, but her failure is certainly not grounds to assume she'll succeed this time around.
Hillary has only a few more years experience in the Senate than Obama and he has more overall political and legislative experience.
There are reasons to vote for Hillary, but experience isn't one of them.