Posted November 14, 2007
The Adulator in Chief


Say what you want about Bill Clinton but he is one smart BOY, to use his Arkansas expression. He was the third youngest person to become the president of the United States. And despite his moral lapses, as president he presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balanced budget and a federal surplus. Ah, the good old days.

But the former president now The Adulator in Chief -- or is that adulterer? -- got caught with his pants down, and a lifetime record of stellar achievements were almost lost to his indiscretions. Anyone else they would have been. But the boy from Hope proved his mettle. He redeemed his character in an amazing four years in possibly the best campaign of his career. You could almost say the guy has never failed at anything he’s taken on in his life.

Until now . . .

Now the former Commander in Chief has been cast in the role of Adulator in Chief to his dear wife candidate Hillary Clinton. But poor Bill, well, adultery is clearly more his style. Not that I blame him, well,  what I mean is, surely there’s a lot more the former president would rather be doing than standing on a stage where his job is to gaze up at his candidate wife adoringly, wearing the ultimate fawning expression for the benefit of all the prospective voters in the land.

Ugh . . .

Of course, we’ve been watching the wives of candidates do this for time immemorial.  You know what I’m speaking about: the wives stand next to their husbands with their vacuous Stepford Wife expressions planted on their manikin plastic faces, wearing ridiculous Betty Crocker kitchen outfits and hairdo’s that went out with Dippity Do, gazing admiringly at the husbands they probably despise for making them do this in the first place.  But they do it just the same, holding on to the hope that in the end, for all their asinine adulation, they might go down in the history books as “Former First Lady.”  It’s difficult being the wife of a presidential candidate.

And now it’s hard to be the husband of a candidate as well . . .  

As the first man in this job, Mr. Clinton, has broken the glass ceiling, or is it slipper, as The Adulator in Chief.  True, he’s charting new territory, but if I were to assess his job performance thus far, well, honestly, if it were anybody else, he would have been fired already. He has failed at the fawning job, miserably. Day in and night out Mr. Clinton has put that glass-laden foot in his mouth.  And I must say that without the Maybelline mascara, his doe-eyed glance just doesn’t cut it.

So, my advice for the Hillary campaign is get this guy a tutor, please! Monica, maybe? She has fawning experience and I heard she’s out of a job.


           

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