Of course, by smart they mean unprincipled. Ten minutes after Bubba leaves office he will be remembered, if at all, as the Edsel of American Presidents. Clinton has replaced the American aspiration to excellence with a kind of national cheesyness. His administration has enabled education without literacy, homogenization without equality, sanctimony without virtue, a press without values, a military without motivation and a government with no objective other than to succeed itself. Accordingly, he refashioned the Democrats into the party of the victims, by the victims, and for the victims.
Shame is removed from the equation and replaced by immunity to feelings of gratitude.
For a guy who loves money with a passion, Clinton gave wages a bad name. For his core constituency, to paraphrase an old saw - taking is believing. Clinton shpritzed the aerosol fog of lilacs on victimhood to mask a redolence that hints at a nearby presence of carrion in decomposition. At the least, one has to be in an advanced stage of lethargy to own up to being such a loser without chagrin. A Perpetrator has no trouble getting the cops immediate attention, even grudging admiration, while a Victim is compelled to sit in a broom closet filling out the minutiae of the indignity in triplicate.