QOTD: Bill Clinton

Created
Mon, 04/11/2024 - 07:00
Updated
Mon, 04/11/2024 - 07:00
Considering what Obama, Biden, Walz and others have meant when they say that America might not survive another four years of Trump. “I think you have to look at what the definition of ‘survive’ is. You can put me on a breathing tube tonight, but it wouldn’t be surviving like I’m surviving now.  That’s the best way of putting the threat that I’ve heard from anyone. We might survive but we’ll never be the same. Clinton gave a wide ranging interview to CNN and it’s quite good: Over nearly three weeks straight of 10-hour days – which means he’s had a much more active schedule than Harris, Trump, Tim Walz, JD Vance, Joe Biden or Barack Obama – Clinton is adamant in his speeches about his unique perspective as the only person on the planet who’s done the job and personally knows both candidates on the ballot Tuesday. “You did pretty well when I was president, and I think I’m entitled to my opinion about who would be better,” he often says, his soft Southern accent now with a permanent rasp. Standing in a church gym in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, he recounted a bit that he had read a few years ago about Dwight Eisenhower saying he worried how much longer the oldest continuous democracy could survive with all the effort it takes. […] He insisted that this tour focus on towns and counties where a president has never been before, like South Haven, Michigan, where he spoke from a…