The shine is off Clintonia 'Yesterday's gone' has new twist for Clintons

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/18/8 | Debra J. Saunders

[SmithL]

Barack Obama is like a shot of Botox. Support him, and you take 10 years off your face. You join the cool crowd. You become one with idealistic kids and Hollywood glitterati.

Clinton Democrats can't compete. They're on the outside looking in. They used to be hip. They were the bad boys, who scoffed at finger-wagging conservatives. Now, they have traded in their saxophones for a pantsuit.

The glamour is gone. Once, their very politics, the simple fact that they registered as Democrats instead of Republicans, made them better than meat-and-potatoes America. They cared more. They were smarter. They knew how to play the system. They were destined to run things.

Now they are trailing behind an upstart junior senator.

Before Iowa, when the Clintons were the party's power couple, the faithful quickly became indignant at any criticism, deserved or not, of either Clinton. As Obama racks up more delegates, Republicans and Democrats can say anything they want about either Clinton, and there is no outrage. Worse, it is now apostasy to criticize Obama.

Even if they were white, middle-aged and living in mostly white enclaves, Clintonians had a quick ticket to the votes of black America. If a Republican said something that could be construed as racist, they did not hesitate to pull the race card.

Now the "First Black President" and his missus, Hillary, are the race-baiters. The world is upside down.

And they look like crybabies when they try to pull the gender card. It just isn't fair.

In the good ol' days, even when they lost a battle with Congress, their losses were sanitized by the news that they were riding high in the polls. Now, every time they stumble, it is further proof - not that further proof is needed, pundits pile on...

[cubreporter]

all part of their script to make you think one thing while they do something else. They are both so despicable. She is a SORE LOSER.

[Revolting cat!]

My parents taught mer that it was rude to point your finger at people or things. Time change. I suspect it’s one of their Hollyweird friends who’s directing their act, and poses, they’re very good at it (the Hollyweird friends.)

[Husker8877]

Most astonishing in this picture is that, at a Clinton staged event like this, NO ONE in the picture is looking at the dual subjects of their worship! What the H*LL?

Priceless!!!

[Always Independent]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

[x]

Now, they have traded in their saxophones for a pantsuit.

Catch phrase of the month.

Work it into your conversations starting now.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Indeed. The lady holding the clinton country sign is not even holding it up. It is falling down at an angle.

Perhaps they are all looking at Obama?

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

I knew she didn’t have ankles, but now I see she has no elbows either.

[Rollee]

LOL!!!!

[hinckley buzzard]

I've always been curious--why are the Clintons and Clintonoids always pointing at the crowd, mouths agape?

[Richard Kimball]

Obama is Miley Cyrus to Hillary's Hillary Duff. Clinton was the epitome of form over substance, and has been replaced by another image with nothing behind it. This blurring of the line between entertainment and substance has created a world in which TVLand can do a show about the most important moments and include Martin Luther King's dream speech alongside the ending to the Newhart series, and people don't think twice.

A few years ago, I tested some of my students. About half of them could name at least one of the numbers Michael Jordan wore. None of them could name a Supreme Court justice or either of the state Senators.

In a recent English class my daughter was taking, they had to write a paper on a political topic. One young lady wrote an argument that Obama should be the next president, but she couldn't pronounce his name. She called him Brack. By the way, these are all college students.