Bill! I love you so, I always will....

[karaokegal]

Seriously, the minute they started playing the first few notes of "Don't Stop" I started feeling all teary and nostalgic. He gave an absolutely magnificent speech, and if he went long, it was because he needed every second to refute the unmitigated bullshit that has been emanating from the Republicans for over a year.

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[donutsweeper]

I've been conversing a lot with my 98 year old great aunt about politics lately. She's avidly following all the news about the election (she even skipped teaching her chair aerobics class for the first time in 3 years to watch it last week and will skip again this week). She's hysterical. She yells at the radio/tv/newspaper whenever they say something stupid, especially about the 'good old days' - "What days were those, when women couldn't vote and only men who were the right color could? Well, I don't want to go back to those times!"

[karaokegal]

Right on AUNT! This is the kind of thinking we need people to wake up to. There's a reason the slogan is FORWARD! Mitt absolutely wants to take us back to his white-bread 50's/60's dreams of that idealized Mad Men world where his kind reign supreme.

[chicating]

Mr. Clinton, sir, have you no respect for the exigencies of the human bladder?For shame.(/faux Special comment)
KO's using emoticons...torn between thinking it's cute and that he might need a FOKing intervention...four thousand fans, Rachel, and Dan Rather(oh, and David Corn and Eugene) all "We love you...we want our crusading hero back."
Friends don't let friends :)
(Maybe there's somebody special in DC? If it's not Dan, I hope she can cut her own meat this time.)

[karaokegal]

I'm sure Keith wishes he could be in the thick of it, but maybe it's better for him to be able to be at the ballgames and see the speeches from a distance. Or divide his time, or whatever he's doing.

[chicating]

All jokes about twitter aside, it must be ambivalent. Because even a wannabe story-gatherer like me knows there is no *news* at these things(Yes, I still enjoyed ours, Mr. Sorkin. Even though I get that. Shut up.) Anyway, from a newsgathering, and maybe even from punditry POV, it's got to appear as though someone is paying you to stand around down south with your joint in your hand(Oh, the fics being written...)
But, on the other hand, there is probably fun to be had. Even if you don't get swept up like Rachel, who is never cuter than when she's a civics dork.
so, on the one hand, who needs it?
Otoh, maybe he could make Rachel blush again.

[eglantine_br]

Bill Clinton makes me happy. He always has. And it is a pleasure when anyone gets to do something they love and are good at. And he loves and is very good at speaking to crowds!

I don't care who he got his pants off with. I want him back.

[karaokegal]

I'd vote for him again in a heartbeat. (I was a Hillary girl pretty much all the way through the primaries in 2008, partially on her own merits but also quite a bit on residual Bill love.)

[karaokegal]

Well to me has almost too much charisma, but I'm a charisma junkie, so that's a good thing. He is the most amazing politician of my generation, without a doubt.

[chicating]

like many pols, he has trouble with the charisma off-switch.