I'm sorry, but when George W. Bush piles on the praise for such a disgraceful person as Bubba Clinton, he risks losing my vote to a third-party candidate.
Does Bush really believe all this positive crap he says about Bubba? To me, it takes away from Bush's credibility as a leader and it also makes me wonder whether he really meant all the positive things he said about Ronald Reagan on Friday. Maybe Dubya just says whatever the moderate masses want him to say at such ceremonial functions.
And then I think about a young person in school who might be doing a research paper on the impeached Clinton. That kid does research to get some quotes about Clinton and finds that the Republican who followed him into office has mountains of praise for him. The message to the kid is that Bubba must not be that bad a guy if his political opponent says such kind things.
More and more, I'm beginning to think Bush is just simply clueless. Clueless on education. Clueless on illegal immigration. Clueless on Clinton's corruption. Maybe I'll write in Nancy Reagan for president. At least then I'd feel good about my vote.