F--- Bill Clinton.

[Rooktoven]

Subject: F--- Bill Clinton (read on)
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When I heard Bill Clinton say "Am I the only person in America who likes both John Kerry and George Bush?" The first thing out of my mouth was "Yes. Fuck you, Bill."

This is emblematic of whats wrong with the elites on our side-- sucking up, instead of fighting. Granted, this was the opening of his Library and Dubya was there, but couldn't he have just said "Thank you for coming"? His time has passed.

I refer you all to an entry by at Altercation by the inimitable Charles Pierce:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6488027/#041119

I think it's time for Bill Clinton, and his wife, and all the people who worked for him to shut up for a while. As time has ground on, I begin to realize that his primary accomplishment over his two terms was keeping the real wingnuts at bay -- which is not an inconsiderable one, given the present state of things. But, let us also admit that, on his best day, Clinton was a DLC Democrat and, even as one of those, he never got 55 percent of the popular vote. He signed an overly punitive welfare bill and he was the worst president on the Bill of Rights in my lifetime. He didn't do jack about building the party. And, for all the noise about how Gore didn't use him in 2000, if Clinton had been able to keep his pants zipped for eight years, Gore wouldn't have had to be so ambivalent about it -- and might not have felt compelled to choose the useless Weepin' Joe Lieberman as a running mate.

This is not a time for triangulation, not a time to cut off our own slice of rotten beef and serve it up as chateaubriand. The next four months are crucial because it's the only chance the D's have to keep the ducks from being put in a row. You may recall Contingency Plan A, briefly summarized as:

No.


Time for the DLC to take a train out of town...