Paula, Paula, Paula!! Get a grip.
CNN's Paula Zahn hyped the Clinton story to the hilt. The title across the bottom of the screen screamed "Clinton's Rage". Paula asked Paul Begala about Clinton "losing his temper", and asked why the former President had come "uncorked".
I saw the same footage. I saw a wonderfully thoughtful, canny, intelligent, passionate, articulate man politely and forcefully expressing his just anger at patently false representations of his good work as President. He never lost his cool. He spoke with serious intelligence and great force about serious issues. More power to him. Hooray for grabbing a bit of the nation's attention. Surely the American people were reminded of the wonderfully thoughtful, canny, intelligent, passionate, articulate President that he was. And surely they were immediately stuck with all that George W. Bush isn't.
The inescapable comparison cannot hurt us in November.
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