Rage of the Clin-Titans

You hear a lot of talk from the "mainstream" media about John McCain's temper, and he does have one. But there's someone in politics who makes him look like a piker: Bill Clinton.

The San Francisco Chronicle tells about Clinton blowing a gasket last weekend:

"It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said.

The piece says Clinton initially showed the "good ole boy" public persona he is known for, but that changed:

But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how "sorry" she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a "Judas" for backing Obama.

It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.

"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.

The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out.

"It was very, very intense," said one attendee. "Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns."

If you've ever looked beyond the "mainstream" media's sanitized portrayal of the Clintons, you'll know that Hillary can hold her own with Bill, too. Conservatives don't joke about ashtrays flying when Hillary's around for no reason.

Part of what fuels this rage from the Clintons is that they are elites, and they know it. They are a law unto themselves, and they know what's best for the rest of us.

When we, the ignorant ones, fail to pay the proper obeisance to their superiority, it's like angering one of these petty gods of ancient times. According to the stories, when the people fail to genuflect and pay the proper reverence, the god becomes petulant and takes out his rage on the petty mortals

The United States was blessed to survive one round of these Clin-Titans; I don't know if we could bear another.