Nostalgia
I was chatting with a friend today. B. is a sensible woman whom I've known for some years. Today we were talking about the Clintons. She asked me, "Don't you miss them? I do. I keep thinking, come back, come back. We need you now.
"When I see Hillary now I think that I never before noticed how blue her eyes are. And she looks good in that dress, better than she did in that other one."
I agreed. "Eighteen months ago I thought her big butt was where she kept her barbed tail coiled to keep from frightening the children. But now when I see her I just hope that she's taking care of herself."
Imagine this. In just over a year getting nostalgic for the Hildebeest, sorry, dear Hillary Rodham Clinton. She harkens back to a better and more innocent era: one of Arkansas corruption, favor selling, molestation, suborning the FBI, and blatant lies. As lacking as the Clintons are, I had a feeling that America wouldn't fall apart in their hands, as indeed it didn't. But then they didn't try to make America fall apart.
I'd go back in a heartbeat.
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oh Please.... don't tell me you have moved far enough to the left that you could possible think the Clintons would be main stream or good for the country?
I agree. I long for a woman to be President. I would much rather deal with cigars in the oval office than this.
Being tongue-in-cheek nostalgic for old-fashioned corruption in lieu of old-fashioned socialism is not moving to the left......nor do I think more Clintons might be good for the country. It is only in comparing them to the current holder of the Presidency that the joke is possible.
In 1994, [HRC] set out to redesign the American health-care system and convened a panel that drafted its plan secretly -- in violation of federal law . . . The plan prescribed some eye- popping maximum fines: $5,000 for refusing to join the government- mandated health plan; $5,000 for failing to pay premiums on time; 15 years to doctors who received "anything of value" in exchange for helping patients short-circuit the bureaucracy; $10,000 a day for faulty physician paperwork; $50,000 for unauthorized patient treatment; and $100,000 a day for drug companies that messed up federal filings . . . When told the plan could bankrupt small businesses, Mrs. Clinton sighed, "I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized small business in America." When a woman complained that she didn't want to get shoved into a plan not of her choosing, the first lady lectured, "It's time to put the common good, the national interest, ahead of individuals." As for privacy, forget it: Her plan would have required people to carry national identification cards that embedded confidential patient information on computer chips.
Grudgingly, I will agree with you. The old-fashioned evils were so much more straightforward somehow. The new reaching for elite-run socialism is scary to watch and try to combat.