The Straw That Stains

Many years ago I lived and worked in northwest Arkansas. This was during the Clinton years in the Arkansas Governor's mansion. I was proud of all the things both Bill and Hillary did for the state. Bill Clinton and Winthrop Rockefeller did more for the state of Arkansas than all the other governors, added together. I was always vociferous in my defense of these two and was proud to be FOB by "two degrees."

But......today, the Associated Press quoted Bill Clinton saying,

"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," he said. "In West Virginia and Arkansas, we know that when we see it."

This not-so veiled slap at Barack Obama is the last straw for me.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have totally destroyed the faith and admiration I have felt for them for more than twenty years. I say this in all sobriety. In an attempt to destroy someone else to sate their manical egos, they have dashed the respect I held for them and put another unseamly stain on their place in history.

For me, they have 'soiled' their political pants.