It’s been a while since most of us have seen Bill Clinton speak. The hair is white, he’s skinnier than we remember, and his voice is a lot more hoarse. If you’re a Generation Xer, who was a teenager or early twenty-something in the Clinton years, it’s shocking to see the Baby Boomer president look old.
Clinton jokes, “and I’m still younger than Donald Trump.”
And yet, as a president who left office 23 years ago… Bill Clinton is still three years younger than Joe Biden.
Weird subplot of this convention is the muted hostility between the Bidens and Obamas, and the Clintons are sort of publicly mediating the conflict.
Bill Clinton is going to go full “I feel your Joy” — and people are going to eat it up.
You may despise Clinton and his legacy — I certainly do — but I think the Big Dog still has it, and you have to tip your cap to the raw talent on display.
This is a good moment to recall that in 2018, former President Bill Clinton said “that even in light of the #metoo movement, he would not have approached how he dealt with Monica Lewinsky any differently and acknowledged that — 20 years after their relationship made headlines — he’s still never apologized privately to the former intern.”
An entitled shameless perjuring predatory horndog then, and now.
Okay, everyone, get your bathroom breaks in. Bill Clinton’s coming up next after House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, and as we all know, Bubba likes to talk at conventions.
The Heritage intern that designed the Project 2025 cover art must be so proud that the Democrats keep parading her work around.
Okay, a good line from actress Mindy Kaling. “You may recognize me from The Office, or The Mindy Project, or as the woman who outed Kamala Harris as Indian.”
Kenan Thompson is one of the funniest sketch comedians in America, basically the single person keeping SNL’s head barely above water whenever he appears.
So marvel for a moment at how hard Democratic speechwriters must have had to labor to make him so wildly unfunny in this extended riff on the Heritage Foundation’s moronic “Project 2025.”
Look, Stevie Wonder playing “Higher Ground” is something I’d watch even at a CPUSA convention. I’m not going pretend I’m not enjoying this. I wish the crowd appreciated it as much as I did – they aren’t singing along to every word like they ought to be.
Nobody will ever accuse Stevie Wonder of reading his speech off of a teleprompter, that’s for sure.