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You’re not helping, Bill. They need to find something for him to do that keeps him out of trouble.
What he is saying is important. Losing his cool and scolding people at campaign events; not so much.
Edit to add. I don’t know what it is about him campaigning for Hillary. He was so good at campaigning for himself and even great at campaigning for Obama, but he has had some missteps in campaigning for Hillary. I wonder if he’s just too close to all of it. He needs to loosen up and be Bill (the one that doesn’t talk for too long).
To help head off Sen. Sanders and his supporters from saying stupid shit, Sanders voted for the bill in question.
Might be time for Bill to find some urgent Clinton Foundation business to keep him busy for a while…like perhaps through June.
That’s how you do it!
This was not a bad exchange. He was respectful, and as persistent as they were. He never lost control. They had their say, and he responded.
Having said that, I don’t know that he helps. He feels the need to defend himself too much; ultimately that can be a distraction.
Everyone should take a look at a table of the US homicide rate over the past 100 years to understand the motivation behind the “tough on crime” movement of the 80s and 90s. In particular, 25 years ago Washington DC was a dangerous place–you did not want to go more than 2-3 blocks away from the Capitol building, and drug-related crime had soared in the late 80s. It did not help that the city government was incompetent.
This article at the LA Times gives a good sense of how it felt back then: Battling for Customers : Crack Wars Leave D.C. Under Siege
I always think the same. I also suspect that he would be far more effective at campaigning for her in a general. We will know the answer if she gets the nomination.
WTF? Is Bill running for President? And what the hell does a 1994 crime bill have to do with a 2016 election?
Yes, lets all re-litigate everything that happened in 1993, 23 fucking YEARS AGO!
None of those protesters were old enough to know which side of the crib smelled worse when that happened!
Idiots.
What’s next? Shall we revisit the Emancipation Proclamation because it left out the “Indigenous Population”? (that RACIST Lincoln!)
By the way, in 1975 or so, a team of sociologists studied the Philadelphia detention centers (people awaiting trial, like the Tombs in NY) after there was an uprising and the warden, assistant warden and the visiting sociologist were killed. One of the sociologists that I knew was not at all fearful of the adults, who had, after all murdered three people in hopes of voicing their complaints against a prison that really was not well run. But the inmates themselves were terrified of the thirteen year olds that were “certified”–i.e., committed crimes so heinous that they were certified to stand trial as adults.
The study was supported by the federal government under the Law Enforcement Assistance Act (LEAA).
I agree with you on that. I think he was forceful but not out of control screaming. And what he’s saying isn’t a lie. The fact is, BLM can often times be its own worst enemy. These people always want to lash out at politicians just not the Rethugs. In the hopes of what, I’m not sure.
He is not really an asset to her in the primary. He always inadvertently draws the focus to himself – and that is not the best way to support her. When it comes down to debating the republicans, that is when he should be her surrogate.
I think the “problem” (which I don’t see as a problem so much) is that people are trying to attack Hillary for any and all things that people either were not around to understand the context of, or are willfully cherry-picking things that 20+ years later now don’t like about Bill Clinton’s presidency or the 1990s in general.
The only reason he is out there defending his reputation is because the Sanders campaign is hanging everything from Bill’s presidency around her neck. Sure – his young voters don’t remember that time personally, but its being interpreted for them in a negative light which Sanders exploits to the hilt and not ever in context. Bill is trying to give context, but it may not work well at this point. Better to let HRC defend herself without having to defend every policy of her husband’s administration…
Good point.
But that is sort of the double-bind (double standard) more than a few have in the current political environment. Anything positive in Bill’s administration, Hillary gets no credit for. Everything they think is bad (even if they thought it was good at the time) is Hillary’s fault. Same with her being in President Obama’s administration. Things they like (even foreign policy wise, like getting Russia to go along with Iran sanctions which set up the Iran deal) she gets no credit for, but anything and everything they feel President Obama “let them down on” is somehow her fault.
Yep – and it works with his kids, so they will keep doing it.
Well, I actually agree with what he’s saying here and I do think it’s time to hit back. New Jack City was based on a true story, so was the The Wire. There were real people, as I know you know, who were being massacred in the streets (and still are) behind the drug game. And 90% of those being killed were black people. Folks who weren’t around don’t remember it, they don’t really understand the panic, or that the demands for this bill were actually coming from the black community.
But I do agree with your point about BC struggling while campaigning for his wife. I think it’s really simple actually. He loves her, he’s dragged that woman through the mud, and he wants this for her more than she wants it for herself. It was easier to be cool and collected when he was campaigning for himself and for others, but he has a really hard time putting his emotions aside when championing his wife. We’ve seen a little of this, although not to the same degree, with MoBama and other spouses/family members of candidates. I think it’s just more jarring and off-putting when it comes from someone so brilliant and skilled as a campaigner.