Be Scared, Again

The knee-jerk reflexive anti-Clintonism of much of the press still amazes me. Now we're supposed to oppose Hillary Clinton as a potential Secretary of State because of Bill's "baggage." It's part of the larger distress expressed about former Clintonistas being considered for various Obama positions. One more time, people: Bill Clinton was our last successful president. Despite the best efforts of his enemies (aided of course by his own wandering naughty bits) he left office with strong approval ratings, a massive budget surplus, rising wages and profits and general peace and international goodwill. Egotistical? Unfocused? Too willing to compromise principle? Of course. But Bill and Hillary know everybody on earth who matters and are respected by most. Yes, Bill's earned millions of dollars speaking to anyone who'll listen (most recently, that evil National Bank of Kuwait - a nation we went to war to defend). And he has the audacity to spend that money fighting AIDS and global poverty and looking for new, sustainable ways to rebuild our cities. Marxist! Muslim! Radical! Pervert! Socialist! Redistributor! Clinton-lover!

Dammit, why won't Barack Obama listen to the people who hate him?