Danny Doom’s Booze Cabinet

First, I watched Bill Clinton on Dave last night and I thought he was pretty good. Wait, be honest. I watched it and thought “Damn, he’s good.” He talked over Dave’s (and my) head about the financial crisis and he was just…well, there’s no one better. He’s smart. He can talk, and talk, and talk, about this stuff for a lot longer than the short time allotted, that much is apparent. I would, indeed, vote for him again in a second, if it was at all possible. He is light years ahead of every other politician, except for, maybe, Barack Obama; in that case he is only about eight or nine years ahead. With good reason.

Second, yes, he struggled to even mention Obama’s name while championing Hillary and her many ideas numerous times. It was obvious. And so when Chris Rock came out after him and sat down with Dave, he was flat-out hilarious and dead-on. Watch that vid, it’s great. So, what can you do? Clinton is a biased observer. He should get over it and come out strongly for Obama, and I suspect that he will eventually. But Chris Rock handed it to him nicely. Hilarious Palin jokes.

Speaking of the Vice-Presidential Gimmick, here’s The Twelve Lies of Sarah Palin. Twelve basic, proven lies that we know for sure she has told (there’s still so much more to learn about her!). It’s kind of like Christmas, without all the joy.

UPDATE:

Just one further thought: why is it that Dave Letterman, and to a lesser extent the women of The View, have presided over the most interesting, informative, and substantive interviews of this election season? It’s not that hard to ask questions of relevance now, is it?

UPDATE II:

That other great interviewer, Jon Stewart, had Bill Clinton on last night (I haven’t forgotten about Charlie Rose, but he hasn’t had these people on lately!). You be the judge. Once again, I could listen to these guys talk all night. You will never hear any Bush, or Cheney, or Dole or any other Republican sit and speak like this. By that I mean, intelligently, or with humor, or with anything resembling coherency. That’s because the real elitists sit in that party and have no idea how to have this conversation.

It appears that Sarah Palin doesn’t want to give any interviews. I can see why. She seems to have little knowledge of the issues and what the office of VP entails, and those investigations are just getting warmed up. Lots of questions to be answered. Problem is, “the Base” is used to accepting their candidates with blind faith, and are notoriously against any kind of “questioning” of their kind. To paraphrase Chris Rock, they “love not to know.”* Truth is like kryptonite to the Base!

(I do see that they’ve lost that nutjob Charles Krauthammer. Ouch. That guy usually eats whatever shit the GOP feeds him.)

You know what will suck though, is if they get elected–McCain and Palin–you know that the same dumbasses that took eight years to realize how bad Bush was are going to be just as slow with these two. And we’ll have to sit and complain about it until they finally realize they were wrong, like they all were about Bush. And yet it won’t teach them anything. ‘Cause they love not to know.

No, no way. Not this year. It’s not going to happen.

* Reference is at the 3:00 mark of this hilarious and NSFW video by Chris Rock.