Dear Friend and Reader:
Bill Clinton, the unexpected loose cannon of the democratic primaries, gave his speech at the DNC last night to a hysterically applauding crowd, showing that the well-worn saying “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is only magnified after eight years on the dark side, with the Bush administration.
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And it wasn’t the fact that his speech was more of a mouthful than it should have been, particularly when Barack is trying to court Hillary’s blue-collar supporters (can most of you say, honestly, that you’d cheer naturally after someone says, “Our position in the world has been weakened by too much unilateralism and too little cooperation?” Be honest, now…)
It wasn’t the natural fallout after Hillary’s clear humility and well-presented speech the night before, making it a difficult speaking engagement to follow, even for a former-president.
And, to be fair, it wasn’t even his blatant frustration trying to get the cheering crowd to shut up so he could do his speech.
It was the fact that this campaign is riding on a concept that Nancy Pelosi so blandly presented as “a vision of the future that is free of the constraints of the past.”