There is still noise about Hillary Clinton somehow, magically, bursting through and becoming the nominee. At this point Biden would have to have a stroke or something, but HRC's version of "She Persisted" actually translates to "And yet, she is still obsessed." She is still trying to kick Trump, partly out of personal resentment, most likely. But also, just in case...maybe...you never can tell...
Once that door is closed this year something of interest re-emerges: what Bill Clinton really thinks of events over the last twenty years and going forward. He will have his biases, of showing how much of all good things we owe to him, and not wanting to tick off his wife any more than he has to. But he will tell us a good deal more of what he really thinks than we have seen to date. He has a history of going against party wishes for his own reputation, and sometimes, though rarely, in spite of his own reputation. He did defend Bush at times, reminding us that it is actually quite difficult to sit in that chair, which he knows firsthand, dammit, in case you've all forgotten! He wouldn't balk at throwing Obama under the bus, nor Biden, nor Sanders, nor any number of Democratic hopefuls.
Free Willy.
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It's already happened once. Those stories about how he urged Hillary to campaign in Wisconsin and Michigan didn't write themselves.
Yeah, that was in my head as I was thinking about what he might be willing to say, as well as his comments in the lead up to the Iraq War.
In a lot of ways, Clinton reminds me of Nixon as a kind of tragic figure in American politics. If he just hadn't wagged his finger and lied through his teeth at the American Public the way he did, but instead been humble and apologetic, he'd have made it through and been one of the better regarded historical Presidents. Same for Nixon and his coverup. Both had remarkable bi-partisan successes as Senators and Presidents, and most of that legacy capital was squandered due to personal pride and hubris, their overconfidence in the protections provided by the power of office. I was a high school kid sacking groceries when Nixon resigned and even then I thought it was a great shame that he did. It was my first recognition that our political system was suffering badly from its own squalid, cynical tendencies. And of course at the time, our local boy Teddy was wet-wheeling his way to his own ignominious string of failures-at-the-expense-of-others.
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