Yeah, I know that sets a high bar. But I'm serious. Make sure you're sitting down.
"We have seen the power of the presidency placed in hands unready or unwilling to address the tasks that lie ahead," Clinton remarked at a luncheon hosted by Newspaper Association of America in Washington, D.C.
"Just think of the days after September 11. Imagine if President Bush had tapped into the wellspring of American energy, initiative and goodwill," she said, making an argument reminiscent of her former presidential rival Joe Biden, who regularly offered similar comments on the campaign trail and at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
Please, please, someone tell me that there's ANY WAY she's NOT referring to Obama when she says "unready or unwilling to address the tasks that lie ahead." Please tell me that she's not suggesting that there will be another 9/11 if the presidency falls into Obama's "unready" hands." Seriously. Someone please convince me of this. Because I really can't handle this otherwise. I want to think that I'm being too sensitive or reading something unintended into her remarks - I mean, she goes on to talk about creativity and innovation, right? So it just sounds like good old-fashioned Bush-bashing.
But that's the thing about the Clintons. There is never anything unintended in anything they say. It's all so scripted and packed full of dog whistles and innuendo that when something like this appears in a prepared speech, you pretty much have to assume that it's been fully Karl Roved.