Monday, June 21, 2004

slick willie

no doubt you all caught 60 minutes last night with dan rather interviewing bubba clinton.

hmm. not that interesting really, which surprised me. with what i’ve been reading and hearing lately about his book i figured i could just watch 60 minutes and learn everything i could learn if i read the book.

at least tempt us bill, please. at least make us want to pick up the book and give it a browse.

no but seriously, i’ve always liked big slick. maybe he was the first president that i was old enough to actually follow and understand. i liked what he did for the economy especially. i liked what he did with interest rates. i liked the unemployment rates while he was in office. i liked the continuation of UN inspections in iraq and not going back to war. i liked a reduction in national debt. i liked his big goofy laugh and his big goofy smile.

but the interview was more on the personal life of bubba, and tended to step away from the presidential life. he talked about his life growing up. boring. he talked about his mother. boring. he talked about his father and stepfather. boring. he talked about his new library. boring. he talked about monica. jackpot. he talked about hillary. jackpot. he talked about his best and worst days in office. jackpot.

dan rather: “lets talk about the worst day you had while in office”
bubba: “the morning i got up and told hillary the truth, just a few days before the grand jury testimony”
dan: “in your book you talk about regret and this issue”
bubba: “i will always regret it. and the issue doesn’t get much more complicated than i did it because i could. i made a terrible moral error”

wow. lets review.

dan is asking about monica, or, he knows that the worst day bubba had would probably have something to do with her. but there is no mentioning of her name. bubba doesn’t say “the morning i got up and told hillary ABOUT MONICA, days before going before the grand jury.” if you woke-up from a 10 year coma last night and turned on the tv to 60 minutes you wouldn’t have a clue what they were talking about.

bubba has his patented smile while talking about the issue, and even let out a rather large laugh during the monica convo. the smile bothered me the most. i know he’s known for always carrying it around and just sitting there looking at you just waiting to answer your question perfectly, and smiling all the while, but really, during the monica convo? it was a little disturbing.

he did it because he could. hmm. i think we all knew this, or thought of how power played an important role in how the monica relations started. but just hearing him say those words so honestly.

you see, he lied about monica. then he told the truth. then he told us how it ever happened. HELLO GEORGE FUCKING W YOU-KNOW-WHO AND THIS ADMINISTRATION, YOU BETTER THE FUCK BE TAKING SOME NOTES HERE!

i miss you slick willie. i don’t care about monica, flowers, and whoever all those other women were. you were still a great president, and we miss you even more now that we have a monkey in office trying to run the country.