Now Bill Clinton is back to
help Barack Obama’s reelection and remind us of his genius for monkey-wrenching
his own party (see Lewinsky, Monica/Lieberman, Joe et al in 1998).
On the one hand, the Comeback
Kid is in Wisconsin to support the recall of caveman Gov. Scott Walker but, on
the other, he’s dropping a small bomb on the Obama campaign by praising Mitt
Romney’s business record:
“I don’t think that we ought
to get into the position where we say ‘This is bad work. This is good work.’ The
man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the
qualification threshold.”
Of course, the former
President soon walks back the praise, but not before being thanked by Romney and
reminding Obama’s Chicago campaign mafia of an old expression, “If you have
Bill Clinton for a friend, you don’t need an enemy.
There are echoes here of the
2008 primary fight, in which Hillary’s husband embarrassingly assumed the role
of partisan hack in trashing his wife’s opponent before finally getting on
board the Obama bandwagon.
Whether or not Romney’s Bain
record is a campaign issue is for the President’s handlers to decide but
without public prodding from his Party’s Grey Eminence, who depends on Wall
Street financial support for so many of his other current efforts to improve
the world.
If Will Rogers were still with
us, he wouldn’t be surprised at far we’ve gone beyond his dictum, "Everything
is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a
joke."
The joke is on us all.
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