Clinton was their high-water mark. A full-fledged Mozart of BS-production. A freak talent for making nonsense sound like wisdom. Exactly what the left needed, because their entire philosophy is a creaking Rube Goldberg machine of internal contradiction, superstition, and mythology. Clinton was possible because of a unique confluence of historical trends: post-cold-war "readiness fatigue," the conversion of the mass media to an ideological mouthpiece of the left, and one individual with an extradorinary talent for lying. Oh, yeah, and Ross Perot.
Some of those factors may come along again, but others never will. For example, I don't see another Clinton-level talent among the Democrat's current crop of mediocrity. They seem to be trying mightily to anoint Barak Obama into this role, but I doubt it. Physics has been waiting a long time for another Einstein; I think the Democrats will have to wait just as long for another Clinton. And even when he (or she) finally emerges, the media will have morphed into something much more difficult to spoof. And, the constant pressure of terror and chaos from the Islamic world will keep people's instinct for self-preservation at a high level.
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Nice deconstruction, replete with all kinds of gratifying mental pics......"Rube Goldberg Democrats" is a keeper. Somebody oughta photoshop that.
I don't think Obama can carry the heay water for the Dumbos. He's a flash in the pan, and was used by the Dims strictly for convention PR.
Clinton was enabled by Perot, not by anything earth-shaking he had to say. The Moanica blowout and impeachment are his legacy, and things Americans of all stripes would not want to go through again.
Good God, what an awful thought.
That is one of the best descrpitions of the dems philosophy that I have ever heard.They cling to tenets of socialism,marxism when they have been proven an abject failure when tried at any level.They want to save the life of every deranged,evil maniac that murders someone but will sacrifice an unborn baby for any cause.They believe minorities can`t get anywhere without them but must enslave minorites to a permanent underclass in order to maintain their political power.It gives you a headache to try to understand them.
Re #6: I really admire your prose-writing abilites.
Good post. Glad to see you give Perot his due.
At the dem convention you could hear the murmer of the crowd "Oh look, he is brilliant and he is almost black" when Obama came out. They are counting on big things from him.