Bill Clinton attacking Obama and the media. Take a hike you fossil.
Tue Jan 08, 2008 at 02:06:58 PM PDT
It seems Bill Clinton is pitching a public temper tantrum at the world because of Hillary's downfall. What in the world is he talking about? He's attacking people for taking nuanced positions? He's attacking Barack Obama about the Iraq War and his stance on it after Bill himself made the laughable claim that he had opposed the war from the beginning. He's blaming the media? The media? All we heard for months was that Hillary was unbeatable. All the speculation was on who Hillary would pick for her adminstration posts. We certainly didn't hear Bill and Hillary attacking the media for bad coverage at the time nor was anything mentioned about Barack getting a free pass.
Bill Clinton...you are nothing but a fossil now, an irrelevant relic to a long gone past who has turned into a bitter ranting codger telling us how stupid we are for taking the future into our own hands.
I'm sure people can explain this one to me. Who does Bill Clinton think he is fooling? His wife is getting her ass handed to her in the primaries and his response is to talk down to the voters. Iowa is now apparently irrelevant and/or stupid because they didn't see the obvious greatness of HRC. New Hampshire isn't fair to Hillary because the NH voters are distracted by shiny things and won't think for themselves because it is only five days since Hillary's irrelevant loss in stupid Iowa. Meanwhile Hillary is the brave Joan of Arc fighting the big bad media which has been against her from the very beginning. And this guy is talking about Obama fans being in a fairy tale?
Bill Clinton, you may have experience out the ass. You may have all the political skills and acumen one could possibly possess. But you are blowing it and blowing it big here and apparently you lost either your smarts or your sanity in the wake of an electoral wake-up call. I know you thought it was over when she announced. I know you thought we'd all fall in line behind you and your wife once again. It is fine to be disappointed, but your attacks on everyone because of a defeat illustrates the ills that allow the diagnosis of your destruction.
You made two insulting and arrogant assumptions that led to your current angry exasperation. Your first assumption was arrogant. It was the assumption that no one could challenge Hillary and yourself. That no one knew the country or the political landscape better and that no one could wrangle donors like you two. Your second assumption was insulting. You thought we were robots that would do as you said and clean our plates eating up your bullshit. How do I know this? Because when we didn't you attacked us for having the audacity of disagreeing with you and having the audacity to hope.
It isn't because Barack is younger or taller. I know you think we're stupid and easily distracted. It isn't because he is better looking. All your snide comments and condescending tones don't make the truth any less true. You are the fossil losing to far superior candidate with a better message. Deal with it.
Hillary and Bill see a loss not as a rebuke of them or embrace of other points of view. They see a loss as stupid voters who bought into fairy tales spun by some soothsaying snakeoil salesman. And what that says about you is sad. You've always thought that about us and now it comes out.
To the dustbin of history with you, say hi to Andrew Johnson for me in the footnote section of local history books on impeachment.
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