As IF Times

link Bill Clinton, Obamas New Secretary Of Explaining Stuff, Takes Show On Road : Its All Politics : NPR.

People can easily mistake what’s going on now on the U.S. political stage for resembling re-runs of Friends episodes.  Getting Bill to speak to the enamoured is not only smart, since he was much admired by them before, but also effective since they still think he’s a saint.   Apparently, unable to rally the faithful to the cause, the DNC brings back the old master with trumpets and rainbows, who earnestly endorses the White House incumbent.

This really makes very little difference to those “independents” who are wavering, but it does pick up the spirits of the legion who are already sold.  You can literally hear strains of Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days” in the background…

“Now I think I’m going down to the well tonight and I’m going to drink till I get my fill

And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it but I probably will

Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of,

well time slips away and leaves you with nothing mister but boring stories of glory days ”

It’s political distraction at it’s best.  There is absolutely nothing that the incumbent can talk about which has been a success, so they bring out the entertainment.  It’s as if they were distracting a crying baby with a shiny thing on a string.  Hitching your faltering wagon to a shooting star is not a bad idea actually and the strategy is brilliant but expected.

What’s amusing though is Bill’s actual record. The narrative about Bill’s White House term has now morphed into 8 years of economic success and tranquil peace across the land.  The truth is at variance with this popular narrative.  As columnist John Stossel reveals in a recent column, the “Sainthood” conferred upon Clinton is revisionism at its best.  See here: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/12/exploding-myths-about-saint-bill-clinton/?cmpid=GoogleNewsEditorsPicks&google_editors_picks=true

The salient point is that Clinton was able to preside over a period of tranquility ONLY because he was forced by a Republican congress on economic policies.  Sort of like Christopher Columbus being given credit for discovering America, except for the fact that he was headed to China at the time and was just stopping for a bathroom break.  And come on, do people really believe it when Bill looks them in the eye and tells them something is the absolute truth?