September 13, 2003

Still The Man

I guess you're an official political junkie if you spend 2 hours watching Tom Harkin's Steak Fry, live on C-SPAN from Iowa. Guilty.

After the 6 Democratic candidates present (Gephardt had left, Sharpton had other commitments and Lieberman can't work on Saturdays) gave truncated versions of their stump speeches, someone came up to the stage to remind everyone (well, at least everyone in my living room) why they were Democrats in the first place. Bill Clinton.

Love him or hate him (and if you're like me, you've done more than a little of both), the man can connect. He started off with the tax cuts, asking why Bush is giving him more money while cutting schools and Americorps and forcing local governments to lay off firemen and police officers. He compared idealogues to practical people, saying "when a practical person finds himself in a hole, he stops digging".

And he systematically dissected almost every aspect of the Bush Administration without (I believe) mentioning Captain Empty Flight Suit by name once. Pretty...slick. It's nice to remember what it was like to watch a President speak without feeling like I'm watching a hostage video.

Ah hell. If it ever came to it, I might vote for Bill again. Even when he lied, it's not like it cost $87 billion and resulted in lots of dead people.

Comments

That was a heck of a speech Clinton made. I had to tweak my conservative Hoosier mother by suggesting she turn it on to see what an actual inspiring presidential speech was like.

He actually sounds like he knows what he's talking about and not just repeating something somebody told him twenty minutes ago.

Posted by: Derek at October 27, 2003 01:17 PM

Not related to the speech by Clinton but still

I was talking to a conservative friend of mine and she said Bill Clinton made US a laughing stock in the world due to his indiscretions... but she supported Arnold.... ironical

Posted by: Sid at December 13, 2003 08:35 PM

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