Bill Clinton, Foundering
Filed under: US Elections
Ouch!
As Bill Clinton scrambles furiously to get his wife (and himself) back into the Oval Office, more and more of his abysmal record (did somebody say "dot.com bubble"?) is being scrutinized and exposed, decimating his legacy. If his wife isn't elected, he'll be paying a pretty extreme price indeed for his risky foray back into the spotlight.
We've already pointed out that Clinton set the ball in motion for the invasion of Iraq and dropped the ball on Bin Laden.
Now, Slate exposes his fundamental fraud regarding African-American economic progress, showing that his claims of gains compared to whites are bogus:
As Clinton performed blackness, real black people got poorer. The poorest African-Americans experienced an absolute decline in income, and they also became poorer relative to the poorest whites. The richest African-Americans saw an increase in income, but even the highest-earning blacks still considerably lagged their white counterparts. Furthermore, the '90s witnessed the continued growth of the significant gap between black and white median wealth.
"Performed blackness." Ouch, that one's got to sting a bit. Wonder what color purple he'll turn this time.
And then Pajamas Media writes his epitaph: "Everybody hates Bill Clinton."
A sensible person would have known enough to keep a low profile the rest of his life after something like the Lewinsky scandal. This is so lame it's almost possible to believe he doesn't really want his wife to become president and is trying to sabotage her.
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