There's Being Polite and Then There's Delusional

Bill Clinton said this in his speech today at the opening of his library in Little Rock:

`It bothers me when America gets as divided as it was,'' Clinton said. ``Am I the only person in the United States who likes both George Bush and John Kerry?"

He went on to say that he thought that both BushCo and Kerry are good men who love their country and just see things differently.

I've been trying for three hours to believe that conciliatory talk like that is okay or even acceptable. But I can't. BushCo's lies have taken us into a war in Iraq, which is unwinnable. People are dying in our name every hour. At home we've never been more divided. We are on the way to destroying the middle class and undoing the social contract that holds this country together - all to benefit the elite and multinational business. God help the poor. As far as I can tell his pro-business policies are so off-balance as to be treasonous. We're racing toward a USA hobbled by debt with an overextended military. We're weaker than we've ever been on every score and that's okay with BushCo.

And there's Clinton, triangulating like mad, slipping into irrelevency, saying that BushCo just sees things differently. It's much more than that. I'm not suggesting that today was the time to call BushCo out. But he didn't need to minimize the impact of what BushCo has wrought over the last four years and what he plans to do with the next four.

Never give an inch.