The news reports are abuzz of liberals trying to convince Slick Billy Bob Bubba to take a step back from his campaigning efforts. Major Democrat leaders are abandoning Hillary in favor of Barack Obama solely based on the former Philanderer-in-Chief’s recent statements confronting Barack Obama.
Cartoonist Ken Catalino
FoxNews is reporting…
Like lovers scorned, Bill Clinton’s longtime liberal supporters are walking out on him, slamming the door behind them and rebuking the 42nd president for his behavior leading up to last weekend’s South Carolina primary.
Clinton’s base seems to be eroding fast as liberal Democratic stalwarts join up with Barack Obama, whose message of change seems now to apply not only to the Bush Administration of the last seven years, but the eight-year Clinton Administration that preceded it.
Obama’s biggest “get” was Sen. Ted Kennedy, who abandoned his neutrality in the presidential race and endorsed Obama over Hillary Clinton on Monday. While Obama insists the Massachusetts senator’s endorsement was not a repudiation of anyone, it was clear that Kennedy – along with his niece Caroline Kennedy and son Rep. Patrick Kennedy — had reached beyond the Clintons to pass the mantle of the Democratic party’s liberal wing to Obama.
Cartoonist Lisa Benson
In other words, Slick Billy Bob Bubba has been squandering his legacy and alienating his base of politically apathetic American lemmings* who have in the past seen his Infestation as a success. He and his wife counted on the support generated by his false legacy in order to walk their way into a second Clintonian Infestation. Well it seems Slick Billy Bob Bubba… BLEW IT! And he did it to himself. Nothing can be more funny.
FoxNews has more. This is too precious to ignore.
And while the Kennedys may open the floodgates, they were hardly the first liberals to abandon the Clintons for Obama. In recent weeks the Clintons have watched many of their supporters drift to the young senator from Illinois.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats’ 2004 presidential candidate, endorsed Obama recently. On Tuesday, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius climbed aboard, the morning after she delivered the Democrats’ rebuttal speech to President Bush’s State of the Union address.
Even novelist Toni Morrison, who once called Bill Clinton the “first black president,” has come out for Obama.
Not that I personally put much stock in the persons named in the FoxNews article, but to the politically apathetic American lemming*, these are major influences because, as we all know, they lack the ability to form an opinion on their own.
FoxNews continues…
Liberal criticism of the Clintons has come from inside and outside the Beltway, from former supporters and colleagues. It ranges from the thinly veiled to the blatant:
Robert Reich, former Clinton labor secretary, on his personal blog: “Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing no credit to the former President, his legacy, or his wife’s campaign. Nor are they helping the Democratic party … Now, sadly, we’re witnessing a smear campaign against Obama that employs some of the worst aspects of the old politics.”
Leahy: “He is not helping anyone, and certainly not helping the Democratic Party.” (The Washington Post)
Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman: “By the time Hillary and Bill have finished with Obama the real man may be unrecognizable to voters in Iowa or any place else … If he can wipe enough of the Clintonian slime off himself, Obama may be able to come out from under and explain to the world that sometimes less experience is more and better.” (The Nation)
Columnist/Editor Jonathan Chait: “Am I starting to sound like a Clinton hater? It’s a scary thought. Of course, to conservatives, it’s a delicious thought. The Wall Street Journal published a gloating editorial noting that liberals had suddenly learned “what everyone else already knows about the Clintons.” (By “everyone,” it means Republicans.) It made me wonder: Were the conservatives right about Bill Clinton all along?” (The Los Angeles Times).
Columnist Maureen Dowd: “It’s odd that the first woman with a shot at becoming president is so openly dependent on her husband to drag her over the finish line. She handed over South Carolina to him, knowing that her support here is largely derivative.” (The New York Times)
E.J. Dionne Jr.: “That’s why the Clintons’ assault on Obama is so depressing. In many ways, Obama is running the 2008 version of the 1992 Clinton campaign. You have the feeling that if Bill Clinton did not have another candidate in this contest, he’d be advising Obama and cheering him on.” (The Washington Post)
Al Sharpton: “But I think that it’s time for him to just be quiet. I think it’s time for him to stop. As one of the most outspoken people in America, there is a time to shut up, and I think that time has come.” (On The View)
Kerry: “I think you had an abuse of the truth … I mean, being an ex-president does not give you license to abuse the truth, and I think that over the last few days it’s been over the top.” (On National Journal radio)
Daschle: “… this backbiting, bitter give-and-take that we’re beginning to see more and more of, especially from the Clinton campaign. It’s wrong. Everybody know it’s wrong and it’s got to stop … It’s not presidential. It’s not in keeping with the image of a former president.”
Ted Kennedy: “With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion.”
Though the Clintons have been staring at a lot of backs recently, it’s not a full-scale rebellion. As Ted, Caroline and Patrick Kennedy endorsed Obama, three other Kennedys endorsed Clinton.
In a newspaper column Tuesday, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (former Maryland lieutenant governor), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy wrote:
“We believe that [Hillary Clinton] is the strongest candidate for our party and our country.” They invoked President Kennedy’s ideals and the desire to give voice to the voiceless as they described Hillary Clinton.
The column made no mention of the candidate’s husband.
I find it comical that liberals who would have at one time been willing to follow Slick Billy Bob Bubba into the abyss of hell are now backing away from him like a leper. Remember that most of these people fought to acquit Slick Billy Bob Bubba in his impeachment. These people all knew that he lied under oath in his deposition, which I must remind you is why he was being impeached.
The struggle within the Democrat Party is only doing one thing, aiding the efforts for the eventual Republican Nominee. Barack Obama hasn’t the experience to run this country. He has only served 3 years in the Senate. He’s never been in the House, never served as a governor, never as a mayor of a major city, and he never took the helm of a major corporation. He is nothing more than a lawyer who has had the ambition to become President of the United States since he was a teenager. He is riding a wave created by the designation of being the first viable black candidate. Unfortunately for him, if he is elected, he will be doomed to Jimmy Carter Syndrom.
I’ve said this before and I will say it again…
Is this nation ready for a woman President? Yes but not her.
Is this nation ready for a black President? Yes but not him.
Neither are prepared for the task.
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