As much as I used to love, and happily spin for the Big Dog, and as much as I want Obama to put this thing away as quickly as possible, I can't help but wonder about Bill's blunders lately.
"Next, We'll See Him Run an Ad Saying: Vote For Me, I Don't Steal Cars."
Bill in Indiana yesterday
Wha??? Really, Bill - you are not helping your wife, we all know that by now, but the question is Why don't you stop?
Armchair psychology after the jump:
I was reading The Rude One
today, and it goes beyond making you shake your head, it really make you look harder at his "gaffes."
However you think about Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and its Thelma and Louise-like gunning of the engine when the cliff's end is near, the saddest part has been the self-debasement of former President and wannabe First Gentleman Bill Clinton. He has been about as latently sexist regarding his wife (with all his references to, among other things, how the men are beating up on "a girl") as many others, although we're supposed to dismiss it with "Ho, ho, that's just the way Bill talks, that old Southern rascal." And in his speech in Indiana yesterday, he went completely batshit.
Sure, the parade of lies he told about Clinton's Tuzla-landing hyperbole (or, you know, as we in the real world call it, "lie") is rather breathtaking for his strange insistence on trying to re-spin a story that had just about run its course for this part of the campaign, especially because he used an excuse for his wife that had already been taken apart by the mainstream press. For someone who is supposed to have political instincts like a hound has a sense of smell, it was a big f****n' stumble, like instead of being the Fred Astaire of the stump, he became Jerry Lewis carrying a giant stack of plates.
Then he compounded it by saying this: "And you woulda thought, you know, that she'd robbed a bank the way they carried on about this. And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11 at night, too." You got that? The candidate's husband just told us, "Hey, my wife's so f***in' old now that if it's past Geritol time, there's big f****n' details that are gonna disappear from her brain." So he wants the Democrats to run someone against the old guy by proudly declaring that they have a candidate who is a forgetful elderly woman. And not just little league forgetful, like "Where the f**ck are the keys?" distracted, but big-time "Wait, were they firing bullets at my child or not?" early-stages-Alzheimer's forgetful.
Think about it - what he did in South Carolina, now Indiana and Pennsylvania - how many times does a brilliant politician so forcefully stuff his foot in his mouth by accident?
Is it possible that his ego is so big that his subconscious would cause him to "misspeak" so often?
Is he afraid her legacy or her Presidency would outshine his own?
I cannot believe he does not realize what he is doing. It makes no sense. There is no logical explanation.
Any MDs or PhDs out there who see this as a syndrome?