Prior to Bill Clinton's first election-by-plurality he forewarned us that his then-largely unknown wife, touted by liberals as "the smartest woman in the world", would be his co-president. As promised, Hillary was given a wide berth. Even after her first assignment, the crafting of a universal health care plan was aborted, she continued to be involved. Often she appeared to be more of a co-conspirator than a co-president.
Later, after winning New York's junior senator's seat in her own right we learned exactly how intelligent and effective the First Lady of Pants Suits could really be. As a constituent, let me assure you that Hillary's list of senatorial accomplishments begins and ends with raising (nearly) enough money to run for president, even after promising New Yorkers that she would finish out her second six-year term in order to "return the wonderful gift" that progressives had given her.
Consider this: What if Hillary had been elected president instead of Barack?
Undoubtedly, it would have taken less than two years for Billy Jeff to have appeared in some co-presidential cameo role. However, it certainly wouldn't have looked nearly as bad as when the Stainmaker showed up the other day to hold Obama's hand; to walk him through his first confrontation with legislators -- a mere compromise-brokering between yet-powerless Republicans and soon-to-be power drained Democrats -- as if he were a kid who was afraid to walk, alone, through the schoolyard lest one of the bullies would make an appearance. The bullies are their friends, for crying out loud!
The Clintons, of course, have been a team throughout Bill's political life, and vice-versa. He was the first to acknowledge that all the lib-talk about his wife's IQ was true and that he would be a dope not to use her Eleanor Rooseveltian intelligence in the White House, forming a co-presidency. On the other hand, the overview of what Bill Clinton has said about Obama, prior to the co-opting of his presidency the other day, has not been nearly as glowing. In fact, at times, it has been appropriately demeaning.
Not that Slick Willy has ever lived up to either the pre-election Rhodes Scholar hype or his reputation for being a slickster. We're talking here about the guy who got caught every time he tried to pull the wool over our eyes -- or his wife's, for that matter -- and who still relies on childish finger-pointing and lip-biting to make a point as he drones on about his triangulated presidential accomplishments as though Newt Gingrich was less of a co-president than Hillary and as though the triangle wasn't between himself, Monica and Hillary.
Unfortunately, what my fellow conservatives will never figure out is how to un-spin the spinners by shooting them right between the eyes with their own gun.
Forget that by comparison to the totally inept Obama the Clintons look like the efficient geniuses they would have us believe they are. As much as Obama's presidency was supposed to have been about erasing all things conservative and recreating the USA in the image of Karl Marx it was also supposed to have been about erasing the politics of the past; politics exemplified by Bill Clinton and his corporate cronies -- including his co-presidential spouse.
Instead, we've had the same old same old -- including Eric Holder, Jamie Gorelik, the Clintons themselves and any number of their Baby Boomer sycophant Clintonistas co-presidenting their way to back to power as Nero fiddles, Rome burns and the First Lady of Pants Suits waits in the wings.
If your Dear Leader has anything to learn from his association with Bill Clinton it will be about bettering his narcissism by occasionally biting his lip and saying to the Plebeians: "I feel your pain."