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Why Is Bill Clinton Headlining the Dem Convention?

DateFriday, August 3, 2012 at 10:12AM

Ostensibly, The Bill 'n Barry Show will work its subliminal magic on the common folk and make them think that oh, Barry is just like the guy who presided over balanced budgets and fabulous prosperity.  Just like him, though maybe a little less black. Aside: has anyone besides me noticed that Barry jams the word "folks" about a hundred times into every speech like someone said, "You know, you need to sound more folksy, like Bill Clinton" and his idiot speech writers thought, "Oh, we'll just call everyone 'folks' where we would normally say 'little people.'"  The reason I can't remember Bill Clinton calling everyone "folks" is that for him, it wasn't an affectation.  Aside to the Aside: whenever Barry says "folks," my brain flashes, "Volks."

Because Barry has probably correctly figured out that no one will notice that Bill Clinton's great policies (welfare reform) have been seriously undercut by Obama himself, and his sucky ones (prosecuting terrorists through the Justice Department and the criminal court system) are being pursued with unmatched, nay, obsessive vigor by his incompetent and criminally liable attorney general.  

Well, that, and the fact that an invite for the top spot the only way to get him to show up at all.

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I thought 'little people' was intended to substitute for 'peasants'.
August 3, 2012 | Unregistered Commenteraelfheld
At least he hasn't taken to calling us villeins yet.
August 6, 2012 | Unregistered CommenterChris

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