Bill Clinton’s Got Some Real Balls to Blame Millennials for All America’s Problems

[babylonsister]

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Bill Clinton’s Got Some Real Balls to Blame Millennials for All America’s Problems

April 22, 2016 James Schlarmann Commentary



The more I hear Bill Clinton talk, the more I’m glad I’m Bernie or Bust now.

Again, for the record, the driving force behind my Bernie or Bust status is that I live in California, and so spare me the “You’re going to help Donald Trump become president,” hand-wringing bullshit. But seriously, every time Bill Clinton opens his mouth up to defend his wife these days, I get hit with a blast wave of ignorance and naked, transparent political codswallop, and it makes me feel bad for the guy.

Just a couple weeks after his truly embarrassing moment with Black Lives Matter protesters wherein he whitesplained how it was okay that his ’94 crime bill helped lead to mass incarceration problems that have plagued the black community for years, Bill was at it again this week. However this time he took aim at younger, millennial voters, blaming them for 2010’s rise of the Tea Party.

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Maybe you don’t think the Democratic Party should worry about how the Clinton campaign’s tone could drive away younger voters, but you should. A party needs fresh blood, with fresh ideas, to survive. Don’t believe me? Just turn your head to the right 90 degrees and look the GOP. For over 20 years they catered and pandered to a subset of people within a certain generational framework. And now? They are dying in part because they didn’t extend their tent stakes out past where they felt comfortable.

I can’t help but wonder if Bill — who was a young member of the counter-culture movement of the 1960’s — would bash younger and millennial voters if his wife was winning with them. Then again, why the fuck he’s bashing them now when his wife is going to have to try and win at least some of them over is a different, but entirely vital question too, isn’t it? Ultimately, it’s this rank condescension that has driven me away from the DNC, and away from the Clintons entirely. I won’t spout right-wing nonsense about Vince Foster and secret communism and shit, but I will gleefully and righteously point to the places where they have sold out their principles and given in to their cynical political natures.

Who else remembers Bill and Hillary dancing to Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow)” while the band played that song at Bill’s 1993 inaugural ball? That song is about the future. And the Clintons chose it because it was their generation’s moment. They were at one time the youth vote, and in 1993 they were triumphant. How sad it is that same man, who clearly got how important youthful exuberance and hope is, has decided to trade all that in for a cheap shot at people who just so happen to think his wife might not be the best option for the job he once held.

Shame on you, Bill. You know better than this, but elections bring out the utter goddamned worst in your family. So thank God there are only about 200 days left in this abysmal shit show of an election year, huh?


IIRC, he also called Bernie supporters teabaggers...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/02/16/bill_clinton_says_bernie_sanders_supporters_are_the_left-wing_tea_party_warns_not_to_reward_them.html#!

Bill Clinton Says Bernie Sanders Supporters Are Like The Left-Wing Tea Party, Warns Not To "Reward" Them

[CentralCoaster]

1. I didn't care for him in 1992 and my dislike only grows over time.

He really needs to step off, STFU and GTFO.

[Fairgo]

2. Bill Clinton wants to nuzzle up to the seat of power, just one more time.

Chicks dig power, right Billy boy? Since his horn dog schtick has gotten very creepy over the years, he needs all the help he can get to pressure the less powerful to perform degrading acts upon his genitalia. And what a turn-on that would be, if HRC lets him use the oval office for sex...just like the old days! Good times.

[azmom]

3. Time has revealed that Bill's presidency was an

utter disaster for the working class. He's just a sad, bitter, and pathetic old man now.

[DJ13]

4. Bill Clinton’s Got Some Real Balls to Blame Millennials for All America’s Problems

Why yes he does.

He'll be happy to show them to any young woman for just the price of a pizza.

[bvar22]

5. Well, that is predictable.

That kind of blindness and self absorption is a direct result of spending too much time with his BFFs at the Bush enclave.

George W. Bush Calls Bill Clinton His ‘Brother From Another Mother'

President Jimmy Carter, the last really honest humanitarian President of the USA knew to keep his distance from these guys. Though he managed to smile, his face says, "I need to Get the F**K AWAY from these guys, and get back to helping people who need help."

[BlueStater]

6. Many young Democrats are demoralized.

And with a power-thirsty jerk like Bill Clinton having an ironclad grip on the party for nearly a quarter century, I can't say I blame them.

[Lucinda]

7. Is he wrong in saying that they don't vote? n/t

[insta8er]

8. Because he and his wife are being exposed by the millennials, who know how to use the internet

and don't rely on corrupted main stream media.

[QC]

9. He used to be such a rock star, and now he's Grandpa Simpson.

It's sad and it makes me feel old.

The AARP sends me junk mail, I just found out I have cataracts starting, Prince is dead, and now Bill Clinton is a grouchy old man fuming about people talking while he's trying to watch Matlock.

How fleeting is youth!

[babylonsister]

10. Sorry about the cataracts;

I'm just waiting for mine.

And Grandpa mccain: Get off my lawn!

I just watch what's going on and shake my head. Keeps my blood pressure down.

[QC]

12. Doctor says it will probably be a long time before I need surgery.

As for Bill, he had such star power. He was like the second coming of JFK.

Now, not so much.

[babylonsister]

18. Good to see you! nt

[Warren DeMontague]

15. True. Even as recently as 2012 he was enjoyable to watch. Such a gifted, natural politician.

But he's sort of lost it, this cycle. Not sure why.

[QC]

19. It makes me sad. I was so excited about the Clintons in 92

because they were young and optimistic, in contrast to George & Barbara, who seemed nice but clueless and thought young people graduating into a recession should just sit tight and wait for things to get better.

I worked on the campaign in my home town and even got to meet Hillary at a rally. (I was so starstruck that I got back in the receiving line so I could see her again. She gave me an odd look, like she thought she might have seen me before but wasn't sure.)

Now I just wish they would go enjoy their fortune and grandkids.

[Warren DeMontague]

21. Yep. I saw Bill, Hillary, Al and Tipper at a rally at the Daley ctr. In Chicago, Oct. 92

Same deal. Very inspirational, at the time.

[CharlotteVale]

17. Grandpa Simpson! ROFL!

[dana_b]

11. the more I hear from this douche

the more the thought of him ANYWHERE near the WH makes me sick.

And fine, Bill. Just ignore us and pretend we don't exist. We'll return the favor in droves.

[babylonsister]

13. He's pissed me off, but 'he's not running.'

So he should really get out of everyone's face, but it's too late.

[KoKo]

14. He very much "IS RUNNING"...out on the Campaign Trail for Hillary 24/7.

It's Clinton Third Term.

You must have seen this?

[babylonsister]

16. Of course. Yes, I have. nt

[felix_numinous]

20. Just endless divisiveness

now attacking millennialists, before we were racists, misogynists--and this is supposed to inspire leadership ability??

The bottom line is: They can't handle the truth, and because we have discovered what they're really up to, they're hiring swarms of people to discredit us.

Money apparently trumps America's soul, to them--they want to destroy all this enthusiasm and joy that has burst forth in recent months, and who would do such a thing? What kind of people cannot see the beauty and hope that has been ignited in this country? Who wants to put out that light?

[99Forever]

22. I take back every time I defended that lying, cheating asshole.

It sucks that it took me so long to see that fucking slimy jerk for what he really is.