A reader writes:
I know you hate the Clintons, despite the fact that, all his failings aside, he was a good president who left the country in better shape than he found it. And he was able to achieve that despite the persecution (what else can you call the impeachment?) from the right. And Hilary does have her failings.
But you don’t put yourself in a good light when you write: "And has any former president, and titular head of his party, directly made fundraising pitches for one candidate before? The brazenness of it is classically Clinton."
I mean, come on. It’s his wife. Never before has an ex-president’s wife run for President. What do you expect him to do? Stay on the sidelines? And I don’t remember hearing similar criticism when #41 campaigned and fund-raised for his son.
Campaigning for your wife isn’t "brazen." And your characterization of it as such shows how you really have zero ability to be objective when it comes to anything related to the Clintons.
No. I’m not objective on the Clintons. But it’s an opinion gained from many years of observing their cynicism, shallowness, self-serving machinations and self-righteousness. And, no, I do not believe that Bill Clinton is doing what he’s doing out of marital duty either. Please. We all know what Bill Clinton believes he owes his wife as a wife. But what he owes her as a political device to regain power for the two of them is another matter. And the truth is: former president Bush never trashed his son’s rivals as Bill Clinton has Obama; and has kept an admirable arm’s length distance from his son’s administration. Bill Clinton is campaigning for himself as well right now, his own future power. He’ll be in a Clinton White House, ready from Day One. And if they get there for a third term, the marital psychodrama they inflicted on us for eight long years will be with us once again.
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