From Time Magazine:As the former First Couple campaigned together for the first time in Iowa over the Fourth of July holiday week, their agenda was topped by one goal: the political sleight of hand necessary to change their public partnership from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Hillary and Bill Clinton...
Thanks to Bill Clinton's eight years in office, Hillary Clinton is by association an established dynastic candidate rather than the emblem of change that Americans say they want from their next President. A strategist for Barack Obama acknowledges that Bill Clinton is a "wildly popular former President" but notes that "people are anxious to turn the page from the politics we have now ... Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton doesn't sound a whole lot different."
The former President spoke for just over eight minutes in a role carefully designed by Senator Clinton's strategists, recounting her long history of public service leading up to the Senate, calling her "by a long stretch, the best-qualified nonincumbent I have ever had a chance to vote for."
With the crowd duly warmed up, Hillary Clinton took the stage for 25 minutes, dwelling on her biography and on her major issues (health care, environment, education, Iraq, international leadership and, as always, experience). She attacked the alleged corrupt practices and cronyism of the Bush White House, just as her husband did 16 years ago with a different Bush.
Bill Clinton performed a subtle version of the fixed eyes and adoring nod. But frequently he rested his face in one of his oversize hands, looking—depending on one's perspective—captivated or faintly restless. The crowd seemed similarly ambivalent. About eight minutes into her speech, some started to get distracted, holding audible conversations, even moving away from the stage rather than angling forward. The moment highlighted the risk of following the former President's act. Bill Clinton sounds intimate and conversational when he's discussing energy policy. Hillary Clinton sounds like a policy wonk when she talks about her mother's childhood struggles.
That's because she is a policy wonk, who makes up stories about her own life (remember how she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary (not true) or how Chelsea was in danger on 9/11 while jogging (not true)?), and who likes to lay the blame of her husband's and her failures on others.
I KNOW NUTTZING!!!!NUTTZING!!!!!!!!!
