Subtlety This Summer
According to Sam Youngman at The Hill, Bill Clinton isn’t done hatin’ on a certain playa:
The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.
He said: “Suppose for example you’re a voter. And you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom would you vote?”
Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”
It’s hard not to notice that Bill Clinton no longer matters to his party. He may again, but it’s truly remarkable to see how quickly he’s been reduced by this new crowd to some cartoon racist complainer. And it’s almost completely wrong! Him and Geraldine Ferraro getting called racists? This bunch of morans running the Democratic Party are taking identity politics to a whole new plane of reality. Watch out.
