When Bill Clinton speaks Wednesday at the University of New Hampshire, President Obama’s surrogate-in-chief is likely to receive the kind of raucous welcome that often is lavished on the incumbent.
More than Vice President Joe Biden, who has a reputation as an attack dog who resonates with blue-collar voters, Clinton is regarded by Democrats as the stand-in star — the folksy, high-intellect charmer who can connect with people who do not warm to Obama. Even Obama conceded, only half-jokingly after the Democratic National Convention, that Clinton has become his “Secretary of Explaining Things.”
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This ol' cigar stoking, "I didn't have sex with that woman" ex-president deserves our admiration and respect. Like landscapes of natural disasters, he has remade his image. One day the Mall in D.C. will have a shrine similar to Lincoln's with him sitting there with a cigar between his fingers. Maybe an artist will portray him with a smaller image of Mr. Obama sitting on his knee like an adopted child. As the most popular Democrat in America today, Mr. Obama is depending on him to gather in that withering vine of voters still dedicated to another four years of the current national mess we now enjoy.
Clinton is killing his wife's chances of running for president. But he didn't have sex with that woman!