"racial dogwhistles" -- love it. i dunno what it is we like(d) about Bill. i guess he's got that same appeal for the Left that W. has/had for the Right. he's seemingly someone you'd wanna go drink beers and pick up women with...then round the night out at Denny's or with some drive-thru tacos. but yes many of his policies were CRAP for us. i've been told that his Admin also instituted the '3 strikes and you're out' of Public Housing rule which criminalizes poor families.

he seemed genuinely hurt that the racist hats are being flung at the Billary heads. what did he say..."Ask Dolores Huerta, B@$#%ES!" haha. meaning i guess: This brown person can vouch for me.

Seemed like a typical defensive whiteguy reaction.

he is stupid not to realize that obama's run itself is monumental in this land. and that the old bill clinton image would have been proud of such a thing. "the first black president" and all that. so...you feel like why is the "first black president" attacking what could be the First Black President? it's a question bill didn't foresee arising from the dust clouds of his co-run for the Presidency. and the new light into his apparent hostility to the possibility of such a potentially historic happening immediately dispels bill clinton's "blackness" it seems.

It was NAFTA for me that made me stop and say..."What the hell party did he say he represented!?" I suppose the impeachment hearings were an epiphany. He now has the balls, available to re-dedicate to the press, to lecture them on the inherent differences between right and wrong.

It's really hard to overemphasize NAFTA; it is the best example of Clinton's failure. Sure, he'll screw over brown people in a pinch, but the clusterfuck that is NAFTA goes beyond undermining his "first black president" status (what an amazingly stupid phrase, btw -- I've cringed for a decade whenever I've heard it). NAFTA created the current rates of illegal immigration by dragging Mexico into deep, crushing poverty by causing job flight from Mexico (yep, it wasn't just us). Thus, the Republican party gained three huge advantages: 1) cheap labor at the expense of native and incoming workers' quality of life, 2) the ability to rail against latinos that have two choices: come to the U.S. or watch their families starve, and 3) the bigot platform allowed by #2. Clinton helped Bush win. (Gore failed here, too: he backed NAFTA and even lied about the program when debating Perot's half-asleep would-be VP. The media didn't care much about those lies, of course. Instead, they invented lies to smear him with that had nothing to do with economics, but I digress.)

The key point: every aspect of NAFTA's impact was not only predictable, but was predicted by economists. Clinton's White House economists claimed otherwise, but cannily refused to write papers supporting such claims in mainstream economic literature. They knew what they were doing.

NAFTA, even more than gutting welfare, makes it clear that when it comes to race issues, Bill is a dick.

it is just about the craziest and halfassed line ever given a president, eh?

well said. thanks.

Bill Clinton just brought the same disaster capitalism with him that were SOP during the Raygun/Boosh I era. Hillary Clinton will simply keep on keepin' on with the program. The Clintons are only good for the Clintons and their respective cronies. Nothing more, nothing less.