We Wouldn’t Want to ‘Overly Parse’ Bill Clinton, Now Would We
25 September 2008 10:17 am by Taylor Marsh
Aren’t you just so proud of our former two-term Democratic president today?
When he could have been critical of our Republican rival who we are trying to
beat to take over the White House, instead, WJC put partisanship aside to fluff
give
John McCain the benefit of the doubt.
“We know he didn’t do it because he’s afraid because Sen. McCain wanted
more debates,” Clinton said, adding that he was “encouraged”
by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.“You can put it off a few days the problem is it’s hard to reschedule
those things,” Clinton said, “I presume he did that in good faith
since I know he wanted — I remember he asked for more debates to go all around
the country and so I don’t think we ought to overly parse that.”
Rush Limbaugh was eager to play Clinton’s quote at the top of his show today, followed by a brief belch on the lack of importance of debates.
Then at CGI, former President Clinton went
further, applauding McCain’s, ahem, just words “foresight,” even though
there has been no actions, on global warming. As for almost walking off with
McCain’s speech, that might have actually made up for WJC’s sudden burst of
tone deaf bi-partisanship.
WJC is truly testing my patience. There’s no doubt he doesn’t need to get nasty or partisan, you know, like the old Bill of the 1990s who went on to win two general elections, plus beat off the wingnuts handily. But he could at least choose to quit pontificating and serving up quotes that actually aid the other side. It certainly doesn’t help Hillary with the activist base and Obama supporters; you know, those people Bill knows she’ll need if this election doesn’t turn out so well. Just read some of the comments he’s getting from Dems across the web that is beginning to blow back on Hillary, which is what matters to me. Hillary has been nothing but stalwart in her work for Obama. So I’m done biting my tongue, especially after hearing WJC played back on Rush today, who riffed, then dissed the debates, which was *!@&ing infuriating.
Cue
Yglesias. …or Jason Zengerle, if you prefer.
