The latest twist in Bill Clinton's knickers...
... is about his speech assignment Wed. night. The assigned topic is “Securing America’s Future”...about national security and Barack Obama’s role as Commander-in-Chief. The speakers are supposed to outline all the reasons that he will be a better president than his rival, John McCain.
But Bill, bless his heart, is still sort of miffed about the way Obama bad-mouthed some of Bill's policies in the heat of the primary fight with Hillary...and sees his speech as an excellent opportunity to set the record straight.
He wants to talk about himself and pretty-up his economic legacy. And no wonder. It was Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich and the Republican controlled congress of 1994 who are largely to blame for NAFTA and WTO trade deals.
The monsters they created are eating away our jobs, wages, industry, wealth, and killing our economy...and putting us in hock up to our ears to foreign interests, mainly China.
I know I'm still pissed about it.
So, when people tune in Wed. night, they'll probably see Bill start out with a forward-looking speech that will benefit the nominee...but end up with a more backward-looking speech, talking about his OWN legacy. A kind of delayed rebuttal to things said during the primary campaign.
This piece in politico.com covers it pretty well:
If this report is correct, once again Bill Clinton is proving to be a divisive intra-party figure who might help his party, once again, "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory."
Right when we should be focusing full force on the goal of party unity...
That's all we need...the Dems clashing and snarling just before the R's do their Lock Step Unity March around John McCain.
All this snarky energy needs to be refocused toward defeating McCain and the Republicans.
Hillary supposedly comes off as more a team player in all of this. It's Bill who is acting like those “Japanese soldiers in the South Pacific still fighting after the war is over.”
Such a pity that nothing ever appears to be learned from the past...
