JOHN LUCAS: Guess Who’s Stumping for Trump?
Can you believe it? Bill Clinton — yes, ol’ Slick Willie himself — has spoken in support of getting rid of the President. Although he did not name names, his comments can only be regarded as support for Donald Trump. Who could’ve seen this coming?
Doubt me? Here is a verbatim transcript [with one minor edit in brackets] of former President Clinton’s comments to students at the University of California:
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“I think how different life looks in the road ahead for you than it did for me when I was your age. Our country is still a great country with so much good in it but we could do so much better.
“Most Americans who played by the rules for the last [four] years have been punished. The average family is working harder, spending less time with their children, paying more for their education and health care. Worried about losing their jobs, worried about the future of this nation.
“In California alone half a million jobs have been lost.
“Your state government is broke and while you’re building more jails, education is being cut and as you well know, tuition is being raised.
“The middle class in this country is declining, the poor increasing. Only the very wealthiest have done better. Your nation has fallen from first to tenth in the world in wages.
“What we got to do now is fight for real change. Change that will require us all to take on interest groups and big government. Change that will require us all to assume more responsibility. Change that will require us to move away from a country in which the top 1% control more wealth than the bottom 90% for the first time since the roaring ’20s.
“Change that will require us all to be one community again, to confront and impose on ourselves higher standards of responsibility, and to listen to one another again instead of just scream at one another. To sit down together, and learn from one another, and honestly try to change ourselves. If we’re going to rebuild America, we’ve got to create more opportunities. We’ve got to require more responsibility. We’ve got to permit more individual choice and strengthen our communities.
“How are we going to do it? I’ll tell you one thing you’ll never do any of it until you change the presidency.”
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OK, OK, time now for full disclosure: This is indeed a transcript of Bill Clinton talking to students at Cal, but it is from a campaign speech in 1992.
Heh.