(Follow up to my The Picture of Dorian Gray and Bill Clinton )

I have been saying for years that a Hillary campaign for the presidency as the Democrat nominee would result in Bill’s untimely death due to the stress of what such a campaign would entail.

Consider that Bill – unrepentant of his sins while in office that disgraced the presidency – Clinton had a heart attack. He is a weakened man from a physical standpoint.

He is a bitter man, especially post-911, given that he is powerless to change his legacy, except possibly via a Hillary third and fourth “term(s).” This all adds to the stress and makes the campaign one of personal desperation.

Bill and Hill have many (and I mean very many) skeletons in the closet that will be set free to walk around from the FBI files, ECHELON, Princess Di, intimidation campaigns against bimbo eruptions, China-gate and Bill’s life since January 2001. They live in fear everyday, that any day one of these skeletons is seen in the light.

Howard Fineman suggests Hillary fears Bill will embarrass and sabotage her campaign.

Bill has shown that he is no longer the politic savant he once was. He has lost a step or two that is aggravated by his inability to keep his famous temper in check in public. See Chris Wallace, The path to 911 and some reporters he threatened with opposition research.

While most MSM analysts missed the point of a recent audience reaction to Hillary’s quote about experience with “bad men”, the reaction was very telling of an indication that Bill’s poll popularity is quite thin.

The MSM focused on whether Hillary was referring to Bill or Ken Starr et al and then exonerated her when they rightly concluded that she was referring to the latter.

But what was significant was that a liberal democrat audience assumed she was referring to the former. Add the Mark Geffen aping of Joe Biden back when Bill was president, stating the obvious, i.e. that he lacks character and is a liar, and you see more clearly that character matters. People don’t usually elect someone subject to such ridicule.

It appears the left is turning on Hillary because they don’t think she can win while at the same time they think the GOP is mortally wounded by Iraq and that Obama is the second coming of Christ.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is being unveiled, and it’s not pretty.

Relevant excerpts from prior essay:

Much like Dorian Gray wasn’t moved by the consequences of his deal with the devil born debauchery…

“Talking in Basil’s garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil’s, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry’s world view. Espousing a new kind of hedonism, Lord Henry suggests that the only thing worth pursuing in life is beauty, and the fulfillment of the senses. Realizing that one day his beauty will fade, Dorian cries out, wishing that the portrait Basil has painted of him would age rather than himself. Dorian’s wish is fulfilled, subsequently plunging him into a sequence of debauched acts. The portrait serves as a reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, each sin being displayed as a new sign of ageing on the portrait.”

as these consequences affect others, but, beginning with his public “thou doest protest too much” Shakespearean fit over the movie, “The Path to 911″, and continuing with his tirade in response to a non-accusatory question from Chris Wallace to be aired on this weekend’s Fox News Sunday, when the subject looks at the effect of his deeds on himself and the views of others, he is moved to anger.

Its all about him.

What is even more disturbing is that 9/11 affected his world view and policy preferences not a whit more than court fines, disbarment and impeachment drove him to repentance. Neither had any effect on him.

I have been saying for two years that I do not believe he would survive a Hillary presidential campaign due to the stress of the resurrection of the relevancy of his legacy of corruption and skeletons in the Lott impeachment trial closet. I see a very spiritually sick man. Haggard and weakened by public shame that he can never erase from history, loss of youth that he worshipped, a legacy that includes not just Monica, but also 911, and a stubborn refusal to turn to God due to pride and the need for approval from the leftist atheist crowd that will pay him to speak.

Until recently, the only times we saw him show real passion and anger was when Ken Starr’s name was raised like a cross to a vampire. He wasn’t moved by 911, North Korea’s bombs he paid for, or China’s missiles that can reach Maine he paid for.

(ain’t it great to quote yourself!)

Bill got real mad at Chris Wallace over al Qaida questions, ABC over al Qaida questions and Geffen over daring to bring up his lying prowess.

Its all about him, still, and such an obsession with a weakened heart and all of the above can’t be good for the ticker.

Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
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