Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
The Baltimore Sun blogs on the Hillary campaign stop in Asheville, and offers a tidbit that I hadn’t heard:
Back in 1992, Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign must’ve burned through incredible numbers of Fleetwood Mac compact discs as the song “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” was an anthem in constant rotation at his campaign events.
Based on her campaign theme that the ’90s were so much better than the 2000s and that she wants to take the nation back there, Sen. Hillary Clinton could set her iPod to play a never-ending loop of the Beatles’ “Yesterday” with the lyrics: “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay. I believe in yesterday.”
At least, that’s what struck me after reading The Wall Street Journal’s story today about the delicate dance the senator from New York is doing as she tries to win over voters who remember the “peace and prosperity” of that era without reminding those same voters of the Clinton Scandals.
The Journal story has this delicious anecdote from the campaign trail, for instance:
“Sometimes during this campaign I hear criticism of the 1990s. That’s fair. It’s an election and we’ve got to expect to be criticized,” Sen. Clinton told an audience last week in Fayetteville, N.C. She continued with a line she has repeated often: “But I always wonder what part of the 1990s they didn’t like: the peace or the prosperity?”
The predicament this creates for her campaign was on display during a “Solutions for a Strong Military” event last week in Asheville, N.C. Standing on the stage with retired generals, Sen. Clinton spoke proudly of the relative peace during her husband’s administration. “Compared to what we saw during the 1990s, we have fallen backward,” she said.
Just then, an Obama supporter in the audience yelled, “Yeah, but your husband also got impeached for infidelity,” referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Oh snap, as comedian David Chapelle might say. That’s obviously not good.
Here’s the original Wall Street Journal story.
