"He was president of the Harvard Law Review!" pants Patti Williams on an especially moist day.
Patti hoped to be known as a law professor and a thoughtful commentator -- all up in smoke when she made like a bimbo Larry dragged into The Regal Beagle.
She's far from the only one trashing themselves in public.
Most interesting may be watching the ones who spent the last seven years insisting Bill Clinton was an irreproachable saint. They ignored welfare 'reform,' they ignored Clinton's own contributions to the Iraq War, they ignored a lot. They repeated phrases like "The Big Dog" and at the end of their spit and polish jobs, the boys had left at least as much moisture in their y-fronts as Patti.
But Bill Clinton speaks a few truths about Bambi and suddenly the world collapses.
On the most recent Charlie Rose Show, the former president noted the obvious fact that Obama has no record. That's sent some of the left-posers online into a tizzy and, as Ava and C.I. point out, it's interesting that, for these assholes, qualifications are much more flexible for the office of president than they are for network news anchor. Yes, some of the Obama groupies are the same ones who attacked Katie Couric as unqualified.
If you think about it, you'll note that Hillary Clinton would be the first female president. The spin is that Barack Obama would be the first "Black" president. Bambi's not "Black," he's bi-racial. They are not the same thing. Years of lip service about diversity are revealed as hollow lies as various 'lefties' rush to pronounce Bambi "Black."
But you have to 'shape' and 'shade' the truth to build up Bambi.
Last week, the co-chair of Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign announced he was leaving over a flap. The flap? As CNN notes:
Shaheen told a Washington Post reporter Wednesday that Republicans would exploit Obama's admission of past drug use should he win the Democratic Party's presidential nomination and might even suggest Obama once dealt drugs.
"The Republicans are not going to give up without a fight ... and one of the things they're certainly going to jump on is his drug use," Shaheen said. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?' There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."
Bambi groupies rushed in to scream and holler that Shaheen had been out of line! It was 'dirty politics'! It was 'racism'! It was pure evil!
It was reality.
A sure sign of a weak candidate is when noting things in the public record gets labeled "dirty politics." Barack Obama outed himself, in two books, on his drug use. He made a joke of it on national TV to Jay Leno.
But for someone else to note the public record is "out of bounds!" You damn well better believe the right's not going to back down in the face of the 'left' web. They'll snicker and note that it's public record -- and they will be right.
Obama's campaign is not about exciting the base. He's built his entire campaign on leaning right and building himself as someone who can bring 'everyone' into the voting booths. If you think the average center or right-wing voter is going to pull the lever for Bambia without wondering about his cocaine use, you are living in a very sad mental state (and say hello to your neighbors Patti and Katrina -- they're the ones in those smashing straight jackets).
Led by Katrina vanden Heuvel, a non-stop campaign of spin has surrounded Bambi preventing reality from breaking through. (Why did she climb on board Bambi? One of her friends reply to that question was too laughable and we honestly hope not true. But vanden Heuvel is nothing if not politically immature.) On the latest edition of PBS' Washington Week, John Harwood (reporter for The Wall Street Journal and CNBC) explained that Bambi hasn't been tested by the press but, if he wins Iowa, that will change.
As Ava and C.I. long ago pointed out, Bambi shouldn't drop out, he's providing the only real laughs of the campaign. And, should he win Iowa, we look forward to many belly laughs as the truth so many have ignored gets shoved in their faces repeatedly.
On blogs last week, the idiots were attacking the Clinton campaign and offering that Bambi wasn't bringing up Vince Foster thereby demonstrating how STUPID Bambi's groupies are. Vince Foster's death was investigated. Hillary was not found to be involved with it. Lies that she was involved are right-wing smears not based in fact. Comparing that nonsense to Bambi's admitted drug use is a huge stretch that indicates how tough logic is for the Bambi crowd. Repeating unfounded rumors might be dirty politics. Noting the public record is not dirty politics.
Corporate huckster Oprah Winfrey took to the stage for Bambi and lied as only a War Hawk who allowed her television show to be used to spread lies in the leadup to the illegal war could. Oprah declared that there was nothing wrong with going for what you wanted and if she'd listened to people who told her to wait, where would she be?
Oprah's not all that bright or else she's deliberately distorting. Obama does lack experience, no question. But the issue of his timing is not "he should have waited" because he's not ready. The issue is he campaigned in 2004 promising to representing citizens of Illinois. He was sworn in January of 2005. He is now running for president. This isn't about "waiting" because Barack, unlike Oprah, wasn't in the world of commerce. He is a public servant who pledged he would serve his constituents. Now he's not just missing votes (and he's missing a lot of votes), he's also running for president before he's represented the state of Illinois in the Senate for three years. He pledged to represent them (and floated no rumors that he'd be running for president in his first Senate term) and he's not done that.
Oprah can confuse it all she wants, she can lie about his record on the war -- as Bruce Dixon noted on KPFK's Uprising Radio early this week, no one fact checks Oprah -- but that doesn't change reality.
And his groupies can hope and pray that no one ever brings up his drug past but the reality is he put it out there and did so in a calculated manner. His 'youth'? The illegal war he refuses to end kills many people far younger than he was in his alleged 'youth' each day. He was an adult. He's responsible for his actions. People will bring up the issue.