Ever have a car accident where your car was badly damaged but still able to be repaired with a lot of work and you wish it had just been totalled and you could be done with it? That's kinda my feeling on the idea of Bill Clinton taking over Hillary's Senate seat. If we're gonna go down this road, might as well go all the way.
It's stories like this that convince me I'm no longer living in America but instead, Oceania.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is President-elect Barack Obama's first choice for secretary of State but his aides are becoming exasperated by the Clinton camp's pokey response to demands for extensive information about former President Bill Clinton's finances, according to numerous Democrats involved in the process.
"The sense among the no-drama Obama world is: This is well on its way to winning best Oscar for drama," said one well-connected Democratic official.
Vetting Bill Clinton is like vetting O.J. Simpson. What information about the guy could be more troubling that what you already know about the guy? If Clinton's known behavior and dirty dealings aren't enough to give you pause already, what's the point of a vetting process?
They say in comedy, there is a kernel of truth in every joke. In fact, truth is the essential building block of comedy. Improv guru Del Close even wrote the book on the subject, Truth In Comedy.
I've always been kind of annoyed with these political dinners where the president or high-ranking politicians come dressed in a tuxedo and tell jokes about what's going on in the country. Political enemies and the media sit around and pretend they don't hate each other and make merry. It's as though the future of the country is all a big joke to them, and it makes my blood boil.
But then again, if truth is the foundation of comedy, maybe there is something to these fancy dress parties. Last night, John McCain spoke at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner in New York. This six minute clip has more truth about this presidential election than anything I've heard anywhere in the last two years. Even in a masquerade, there is some truth to be found.
Has a very anti-climactic feel to it. Though it is interesting to note that this will be the first time in 20 years the President of the United States won't be a Bush or Clinton. I think we're definitely due for a break.
Now the question of whether she gets the VP spot. It would be a funny situation if it weren't so disastrous for the country. If she were Obama's Vice President, he'd have more knives in his back than Bill Clinton has girlfriends.
John McCain could trump Obama and pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. She's young, conservative, a woman and not hard to look at.
The chickens have finally come home to roost for the Clintons. After 15 years of slavish devotion from the MSM, which endeavoured to make every crime committed by the couple seem like the right thing to do, they've found a new love in Barack Obama. To say Bill Clinton is non-plussed would be a massive understatement. He's never faced anything like this before, and the recent Vanity Fair article on his behavior in Hillary's campaign has set him off once again.
"It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn't do anything about it. The first day he said 'Ah, ah, ah well.' Because that's what they do - he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain-maybe I better quit the church. It's all politics. It's all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don't think anything about it."
Richard Nixon and George W. Bush might have something to say about that, but c'est la vie.
Vanity Fair has a scathing piece on Bill Clinton that is the talk of the town right now. I'm not sure what to think. The Clintons have been down before and surprised us all. I wouldn't count them out any more than I would count Richard Nixon out.
Classic. There's a story floating around that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, one of Hillary's biggest supporters for years, has told Nancy Pelosi to have a revote in Florida and Michigan or he'll cut off campaign money to Congressional Democrats. I sure hope this is true.
What I find interesting about this is that it happened over 15 years ago, but only now has it come out. Imagine it, for 15 years you get a free pass from the MSM, then the media falls in love with a new messiah and all of the sudden we're supposed to pay attention to the bad things past and present.
MORE: There's some debate over whether Carville and Stephanopoulous are agreeing with Kantor or not. They remain silent and the body language to me suggest they would just like Kantor to shut up. I have no doubt, however, that they do agree with him. Voters are mere chattel to the Democrats. It raises a bigger point that I doubt McCain has the smarts to target: the Democrats, whether it be Obama's camp or Hillary's camp, have utter contempt for a majority of the American people. They talk of championing the little guy, but the fact of the matter is they hate the little guy. The little guy to them is a stupid, religious, gun-owning dupe whose only value to them is his vote. If I were an advisor to John McCain, I would hammer this message into the campaign so hard you'd see the welts for miles.
UPDATE: Hold the phone! The director of "The War Room" D.A. Pennebaker says the tape has been doctored. If true, should Obama "disown" the alleged culprit?
Robert Ferrigno at National Review has an hilarious piece of satire today looking at a world where Barack Obama is President, the Fairness Doctrine is back and Bill Clinton actually misses Rush Limbaugh.
