Reply #29: "If people read Clinton's book, they will love him" [View All]

[AlGore-08.com]

"If Clinton talks directly to people, he will win all of them over." I am really amazed at how many times I see variations on this posted at DU. It's just not true. It never was true and it never will be true. And it flies in the face of history to say it.

If it was true, Kenneth Starr never would have investigated Clinton, let alone publicished all of the lurid details of Clinton's extra-marital affair. If it was true, the House managers never would have tried to impeach Clinton. If it was true, the impeachment vote in the Senate would have been 0-100 against. If it was true, the media never would have ginned up Whitewater, Travelgate, the Lincoln Bedroom, etc., etc., etc. and all the rest of the bogus Clinton scandals. Rush Limbaugh and all of Richard Mellon Scaife's elves would have collectively written a book called "Why Bill Clinton is the greatest, most moral President ever."

If Clinton just would have talked directly to these guys, all of the unconstitutional power grabs by the GOP never would have happened. Too bad Clinton didn't think about just talking directly to those jerks at the time, huh? Could have saved us all 12 years of unconstitutional power grabs by the GOP. Oh well - - coulda, shoulda, woulda.

The reality of Bill Clinton is that he is popular with millions of people - - but he's not universally loved. He is also absolutely loathed by millions, and personally disliked by millions. Whether that should be the case is not the point. The point is that pretending that Clinton has some kind of superhuman charisma does a real disservice to his legacy and to every candidate that still has to fight the right wing media to get their message out to voters. It's similar to claiming that Dalton Trumbo had some kind of superhuman charisma that allowed him to work as a screenwriter up until his death - - and totally ignore the Hollywood blacklist, and all the years that Trumbo had to use fronts to sell his screenplays.