Bill Clinton

First up we have the awesome speech delivered by Bill Clinton:

After that, John Kerry gave a more powerful speech than he did during his entire campaign in 2004. If he would have been like this in 2004, then we would be heading into his second term.

And the headliner of the night - Joe Biden. Biden is so good at giving speeches from the heart. Some people say he isn't the greatest speech writer, but they all agree on his passion. That passion was shown last night in full force.

Damn Clinton knocked it out of the park. In no uncertain terms he gave a big "fuck you" to the wingnuts and pundits. When the YouTube is up, I will post it.

Especially when things like this are being said:

The third-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives and one of the country’s most influential African-American leaders sharply criticized former President Bill Clinton this afternoon for what he called Mr. Clinton’s “bizarre” conduct during the Democratic primary campaign.

Representative James E. Clyburn, an undeclared superdelegate from South Carolina who is the Democratic whip in the House, said that “black people are incensed over all of this,” referring to statements that Mr. Clinton had made in the course of the heated race between his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Senator Barack Obama.

Good way to destroy a legacy Bill.

Bill has really lost it. Now he is trying to repeat the lies Hillary told about her Bosnia trip:

Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife's tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago.

In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife's mistake in claiming that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, accusing the media of treating her like "she'd robbed a bank" for confusing the facts.

The AP article even lists the facts he got wrong:

Bill Clinton has many of the facts wrong.

His wife didn't make the sniper fire claim "one time late at night when she was exhausted." She actually told the story several times, including during prepared remarks on foreign policy delivered the morning of March 17.

It's also not true that she "immediately apologized for it." Clinton has never apologized for the comments and only acknowledged that she "misspoke" a week after the March 17 speech when video of her peaceful tarmac reception emerged.

It's also not true that she was the "first first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to go into a combat zone" - a claim that Hillary Clinton has also made when talking about the trip. Pat Nixon traveled to Saigon during the Vietnam war and Barbara Bush went to Saudi Arabia two months before the launching of Desert Storm.

The trip also was not in 1995, but 1996.

Bill just harmed Hillary's chances. The media was letting this story die out, but now he has reignited it. Maybe Hillary should send Bill off with Penn.

Bill Clinton said this yesterday:

"Her opponent excites more Americans ... but would in fact deny us universal health-care coverage for the first time," the former president said. "She represents the solution business."

For the "first time"? Is he saying we already have universal health-care? I heard of spinning, but this takes the cake.

The right wing blogs have been in going on about the ten year anniversary of the Monica Lewinsky ordeal. As with any anniversary, it is time to reflect. In particular I would like to reflect on some very obvious hypocrisy's this is pointing out.

• They dwell in the past - Isn't this something the wingnuts attack us on the left for, particularly when it comes to the Iraq war and the non-existent WMDs? So is it bad for us to dwell on the lies George Bush told that has lead to nearly 4,000 dead soldiers and cost us billions, yet it is ok to dwell on two consenting adults engaging in a sexual activity?
• We cannot forgive! - That seems to be the mantra of the right wing. Ironically we saw a Republican Senator get busted with hookers and his wife forgave him, so that was acceptable. We also saw the Reverend Ted Haggard exposed for being in a relationship with another man. The church was able to forgive him. This is fine, yet Hillary is not allowed to forgive Bill?
• They love the cock! - From Ted Haggard to Larry Craig to Mark Foley, nothing says "i love the cock" more for the wingnuts than their constant obsession with Bill Clinton's cock. I swear if they were given the chance any of them would have jumped on the opportunity to switch positions with Monica. Yes - their obsession makes it that obvious.

So why they are celebrating this anniversary, let's celebrate ours. It has now been ten years since we saw that numerous on the right who try to act like the "moral police" of this nation are in fact nothing but hypocritical, phallic envying, jealous little kids.

But let's not dwell on that. Instead we should dwell on the current President's lack of better judgment, and where it has led us. We are a broken nation in an unending war. I for one care about our soldiers and country enough that I want to see some justice done for what has happened to them. I believe our country deserves accountability for this fatally flawed administration. I would gladly go back to the days of blow jobs and white stains instead of this nightmare we are in.

So go back to your corners little Republicans. Curl up in your fetal positions while holding your "Big Bubba Dildo" and go back to screaming "why Monica - why not me???"

Something doesn't seem quiet right about that. If Hillary wants to shake the "wife" image then she should be out there giving the speech - not Bill.

Lester Holt interviewed Obama and asked him about the Clinton's bring race into the campaign. Obama said what Bill and many of us in the blogosphere said - the Clinton's aren't brining race into it, the media is. Good for Obama. He just went up even more in my book. He could have easily taken this as an opening to continue the fight, but took the high road and addressed the actual situation. Media take note - people aren't buying into your strawman you are trying to create.

That's the new adjective Debra Dickerson of Mother Jones used to describe Clinton's behavior on Colbert last night

I must admit I got a laugh out of it.

He has published a make believe letter from the DNC's human resources department to Bill Clinton. I do like what one commenter said:

Obama and his surrogates need to stop going on TV and whining about how the Clintons are a bunch of meanies! It makes Obama look weak and unprepared for the office he seeks.

That got me thinking back to one of the first debates. Obama kept going on about Hillary's Iraq vote (and God knows I don't agree with her on that). The media was praising Hillary for not biting. Obama went out and continued his attack against her and Edwards over that vote. Still no big deal.

Here we are some months later and Clinton is now fighting back. That brings me to one part of Franken's cute faux letter:

*Sexism
In these modern times a wife does not need a husband to do her dirty work. She is now allowed to misrepresent her opponent without a man to help her.

That's really funny. I also remember numerous occasions when male candidates would have their wives go out and do the same. So is that OK or does Bob need a reprimand about sexism in his file?

It's like I have been saying; the media is eating up the fact that Bill is out there. He gets more attention than any other candidate's spouse. That is causing the problem. The media needs to stop thinking of him as "former President Clinton" and instead focus on him as "Bill husband of Hillary".

Don't believe me? How about when Mike Huckabee asked about Mormon's believing if Jesus and the devil were brothers? That was a sure fire shot across the bowl of Mitt Romeny and the media hardly mentioned it. So I guess misrepresenting an entire religion is fine, just don't misrepresent a candidates quotes or votes.

For the love of God - no more pluckin' Presidents!

That's the big picture we always see of Huckaboner now. Lest we not forget about our last pluckin' President?

And that was during Katrina!

How about we change to another instrument? Things weren't bad with the sax:

Seriously - isn't that what we have heard for years? They blame Clinton and Carter. So then riddle me this one:

Anxious not to repeat mistakes of past Middle East peace-making, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has turned to former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for tips ahead of her own conference this year.

Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said on Friday.

Their talks were "good and cordial," he said. They focused on the Middle East and not Carter's recent criticism of President George W. Bush's policies in Iraq and elsewhere.

A Soviet specialist, Rice also telephoned another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who tried, and ultimately failed, in his eight years in office to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together.

I guess Democrats weren't too bad for the Middle East. I can't wait for the Republicans to cry foul on this one!