Not a picture of conjoined twins. A picture of two different people.
Bill Clinton was president in the 1990s. Hillary Clinton is running for president in the 2010s. It is more than 20 years later and
she is a different person than he is. These concepts are apparently something of a challenge for
Washington Post reporters Anne Gearan and Philip Rucker and their editors.
Hillary Rodham Clinton isn’t just running against Republicans. She’s also running against parts of her husband’s legacy.
On issues large and small, the Democratic presidential contender is increasingly distancing herself from — or even opposing — key policies pushed by Bill Clinton while he was in the White House, from her recent skepticism on free-trade pacts to her full embrace of gay rights.
BREAKING: Candidate has learned from the past, is not her own husband. In fact, if Bill Clinton could run for president, the
Post would have to write a similar article, since he "now says that some of his incarceration policies went too far and that he regrets backing a federal law that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman." And again, Hillary Clinton was not the president who signed those laws. She was the wife of the president who signed those laws.
Republicans are predictably using the term "flip-flop" to describe this, but we're not talking about Scott Walker supporting and then opposing a pathway to citizenship when nothing has changed other than the office he's running for. We're talking about, decades later, looking at existing policies and saying "Hmm, maybe that didn't work so well and we need to rethink it." And again, we're talking about TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE?
Can we please fast forward to November 9, 2016? Whatever happens on November 8, at least the takes will be differently hot the next day. Also, what Hari Kondabolu said:
The mainstream media is so bad that it has become cliched to talk about how bad they are. THAT'S HOW BAD THEY ARE.
— @harikondabolu