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\n Dowbrigade finds the present electoral season disappointing in so many
\n ways. One of the featured acts we were really looking
\n forward to enjoying was the display of political contortionism and dissimulation
\n expected from the Dems Royal Family, Bill and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
According to our penetrating if paranoid political analysis,
\n the Best Behavior of America’s premier power couple during this campaign
\n would require an exquisite touch and consummate acting skill, but we
\n had every
\n expectation
\n that the
\n Clintons
\n were up
\n to it.<\/p>\n
The reasoning goes as follows. If Kerry wins the election,
\n then he is in a good position to repeat in ’08 and leave a mature and
\n leveraged John Edwards as heir apparent in ’12, pushing Hilary’s window
\n of opportunity well into her Golden Years of AARP activism.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, if Kerry were to go down to a hard fought
\n and honorable defeat in November, and the economic and war chickens flapping
\n around the landscape come home to roost during a second Bush period,
\n then the
\n Republicans will be ripe for the plucking in ’08, and Hilary will be
\n primed to re-take the throne.<\/p>\n
On the other<\/em> other hand, however, we are dead We have limitless faith in the ambition and moral ambivalence What a difficult position the Clintons were in! How to However, since our reputation for callous cynicism couldn’t The Dowbrigade finds the present electoral season disappointing in so many ways. One of the featured acts we were really looking forward to enjoying was the display of political contortionism and dissimulation expected from the Dems Royal Family, Bill and Hillary … Continue reading
\n certain that with every liberal bone in both Clinton’s bodies they believe
\n that four more years of Bush would be a disaster for the country, and
\n a blow to all of the political principles they espouse. Who know what
\n kind of Faustian deal with the devil, what internal moral contortions
\n will be necessary for them to successfully rationalize that a Bush victory
\n will be better for the country in the long run<\/em>, as it would
\n usher in the Shangrala of a second Clinton presidency? <\/p>\n
\n of the former First Couple, and are confident that in their hearts they
\n are pulling for another underhanded Bush victory. Yet they must at all
\n cost avoid even a whisper of a hint that they are doing anything less
\n than their utmost to get their party’s candidate elected THIS time. Anything
\n less would brand them as opportunistic political traitors and doom them
\n to irrelevance in future election cycles. Thus we were looking forward
\n to a lively lesson in the Arkansas two-step, stump-speech doubletalk
\n and political posturing, subtly erroneous advice and exquisitely "accidental"
\n campaign faux pas.<\/p>\n
\n get out of all of that embarrassing and stressful multiple role playing
\n and constant calculation? We know it is cruel, cheap and incredibly cynical
\n to suggest that Bill’s heart trouble was in any way staged, but it certainly
\n is convenient, isn’t it? Now both Clinton’s have a perfect excuse
\n to sit this one out, amid an outpouring of concern and well-wishing from
\n BOTH parties and campaign camps. Brilliant! And of course we wish the ex-President a swift and complete recovery.<\/p>\n
\n be much worse, let us confess that we also wonder if Hilary, that marvelously
\n conniving caldron of political calculation, is mulling over how Bill’s
\n different prognoses will affect her chances in four years. Our
\n advice to Bill is to be very <\/em>careful in picking your doctors.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"