Posted on 09/14/2010 11:40:40 AM PDT by facedodge
...At a joint appearance with former British Prime Minister and warmonger Tony Blair, Clinton complained about MSNBC's Rachel Maddow (without naming her) for, basically, telling the truth about his presidency.
“One of the leading television commentators on one of our liberal cable channels said I was the best Republican president the country ever produced, which would come [as] quite a surprise to the Republicans, half of whom still think I’m a closet communist,” Clinton said during an appearance with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Now this is one statement in an hourlong conversation, and Politico is blowing it out of proportion in order to have a personality-driven "Clinton SLAMS Maddow" story on the front page, but Clinton's actual substantive defense of his presidency, and his prickliness about his liberal critics, is definitely worth getting into.
It is kind of weird that Clinton still gets offended by this kind of talk, considering that the entire point of third-way politics was that if Democrats just became a little bitmore like Republicans, voters would like them. But he and Blair bonded over the idiotic political idea that if both sides hate you, you're doing something right. The liberals thought he was a sell-out, and the Republicans called him a communist - that means he was jussst right.
Clinton, for some reason, does not take from this the obvious lesson: That no matter how far right you go, the Republicans will still call you a socialist -- and so moving further rightward to head off those attacks is entirely pointless.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
This flip side of this philosophy needs to be understood by the Rebulican establishment. No matter how center (towards the left) you move, it isn't enough, and they won't thank you for it.
Clinton should just hit back by calling her a woman.
Only relative to Obama, does Bill look like a republican.
Of course there are a lot of Republicans that look more like Bill than a Republican.
Bring on the conservatives.
I think I just saw a cat running out of that bag.
Salon, MSNBC, Politico, Clinton, Maddow, Clinton whining...
There are so many things I can’t stand in this article that I’m gettin woozy.
You tell'em Butch
Clinton should just hit back by hitting on her and watching her puke in disgust.
When the Clintons are back in power—how long will that woman have a job?
Who thinks Clinton is a closet communist? I say he is an out of the closet, openly communist.
Actually a pretty funny story. Illustrates both the lefty wackiness of Salon and the crybaby whining of Slick Willie that I remember from his 8 years of idiotic scandals.
Actually, the cat shredded the bag with that proclamation.
I bet if Maddow wasn’t a guy, Slick would have overlooked it.
I seem to recall the Clintons, in the middle of their presidency, chiding themselves for becoming “Eisenhower Republicans” (not being as relentlessly leftwing as they wanted to be).
What is Clinton complaining about, Chris Matthews called his wife a racist when she ran against Obama.
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