The Great DNC ClintonGasm: OS Just Had To Watch

Really, he tried to resist the temptation, to instead read more on that book, listen to a bit of music. But just as people sit transfixed when they see a plane fall from the sky, or see trains on a collision course, OS found himself in front of the TeeVee, waiting to see what President 'It Depends Upon What Your Definition of 'IS' Is' Clinton would have to say to the adoring crowds about the man he previously so thoroughly despised.

It is so useful to possess a mind such as Bill Clinton's, which is able to ignore actual events as it explains history.  There was one moment where he asked the rhetorical question about why the federal budget balanced from 1996-2000. OS was half-hoping to hear His Billness utter Newt Gingrich's name.

Nope! He blurted out the word 'Arithmetic!', to the cheers of the adoring crowd.

For any of us who remember the 1990's, this simply was not the case. OS remembers going to the poll early in the morning in November 1994, thinking he and Mrs. OS would arrive to an empty venue. Instead, they found voters lined up out the door, all waiting for the opportunity to vote Republican, here in one of the deepest yeller-dog Democrat counties of the South. HilaryCare had scared them shitless, and they were hopping mad. That was just one item on their list, by the way.

It was Newt who forced Bill to begin to behave like something resembling someone who had completed seventh-grade math. Even then, Bill let the gubbermint shut down before conceding.
(It was during the 'shutdown' he staged that boredom set in and a 19-year-old female intern walked in. His Billness, at one point, even tried to pin the blame for that debacle on the Republicans, for creating the 'shutdown'. Puhleeeeze...)

Newt and his majority later forced Bill to sign on to welfare reform as well.

Now here we are, in 2012, and His Billness is claiming credit for both.

Nothing about the man has changed. Nothing about the party he spoke to has changed, except for their utter willingness to forgive the man anything, so long as he tells what they wish to hear.

His behavior in the Monica Lewinsky affair was just deplorable. He ended up being impeached, and brought the country to a halt as a consequence. He wasn't removed, but he was disbarred, and ended his term admitting in writing to his perjury. In the meantime,  bin Laden had the opportunity to ramp up his operation, and the wacko Left extracted its pound of flesh for protecting his sorry ass. The foundations of the housing bubble were laid as a consequence, as Fannie and Freddie were transformed from sleepy institutions to instruments of social transformation, shoving money toward both properties and buyers that had not a chance of success.

Given his track record with Lewinsky, Kathleen Willey, and so many other credible women--what woman would remain in the room with him, much less cheer for him? Compare what we know about Clinton versus what was only alleged about Herman Cain.

What sort of person does it take to deliberately forget major pieces of history about people such as Clinton, Teddy Kennedy and Barack Obama--simply for the privilege of being told what he wants to hear?

'It's all Bush's Jr.'s fault. It's all Bush Sr.'s fault. It's all Reagan's fault. It's the Tea Party's fault. It's Mitch McConnell's fault. No one could have turned this thing around, not even me. It's all getting better, ya'll just don't feel it yet. It's Paul Ryan's fault. It's the fault of people like Mitt. It's Bush's fault. We had nothing to do with this debacle, even though we oversaw it for the past four years. It's Bush's fault. It's Bush's fault.

They ate it up. They just ate it up.

Forty-seven million people on food stamps.  Twenty-three million unemployed. Sixteen trillion in debt. The House was swept by the GOP in 2010, and almost the Senate with it. Whole swaths of states, such as Kentucky, won't even be contested, because Obama is so completely disdained.

And they just ate it up, Couldn't get enough of His Billness, telling them what they most wanted to hear--that it's all ok, that no matter what that stream of cash will flow endlessly into the pockets of those unionized teachers, government employees, UAW members. No matter what, they'll be ok, even as the culture falls apart around them.

We've got your back, just deliver us them votes.