UPDATE: It has now been confirmed that President Clinton didn’t actually say anything about “teabaggers”, so crazy people who have been sending hate mail to us today need to vacate their Maureen Dowd moment where their indignance over something that was never even actually said confirms how unhinged they are.  Honestly, some of you out there just hate the Clintons so much you must sit on the edge of your seats waiting for either of them to say anything that you can twist and distort.  How many years have you been doing this now?  You realize none of them is the POTUS currently, and the person in that role says and does ACTUAL bad things each and every day.  Apparently, what everyone is worked up about is someone paraphrasing Clinton incorrectly, and totally get wrong what he actually said.  So cool it on all the hate mail to us telling us we should stop supporting a man we’ve campaigned for four times now and have admired since 1990.

We are never going to move away from the Clintons…and it’s a weird obession to use Maureen Dowd-level hallucinations to try to make us. 

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This seems to need it’s own post because our mailbox is filling up with more hate mail than usual today, from many of you upset former President Bill Clinton used the word “teabaggers” the other day, and told a Democrat crowd the “teabaggers” were just a bunch of loons, or whatever it is he said.  

Today, Clinton’s in Chicago and if at any point we’re close enough to ask him what he really meant, we swear we will do it.  Absent that, all we can say is what’s on our mind, and it’s something one of our fathers used to do when one of us was on the hockey team in high school and he didn’t think his son was playing hard enough. 

That father knew “sissy” was a hot button word with his son — and like it or not, calling him a little sissy always motivated the kid to toughen up, move his ass, and redouble his efforts in practice or in a game.  

In no way, shape, or form do we condone calling your young, gay son “a little sissy”, so before the hate mail launches with the vengeance of a thousand arrows on that one, we just want to note that in situations where someone of Clinton’s rough age group wants to motivate someone to get off their butt and do something, to work harder at something, some well-placed nebulously directed name-calling could very well prove most effective.  

“Oh, those crazy teabaggers” sure sounds a lot like “Why don’t you just give up, you little sissy?”.  

Sebastian’s dad didn’t really want him to give up.  He also probably never gave as much deeper meaning to the word “sissy” as Sebastian would overanalyze it for the rest of his life.  It was just a word that provoked a response in a sometimes lackadaisical forward who cream puffed it through practice more often than he should have. 

Oh, being mad at his dad sure helped on game days though.  ”I’ll show him.  I’ll show him who’s a little sissy. I’m not going to just quit,” is the response Sebastian would give…all because he’d get his ire up, and those skates would take to ice like nobody’s business. 

Now, what Clinton is up to is anyone’s guess.  We’ve only spoken to him a combined few minutes over a great many years.  We do not know him…but we’ve read everything he’s written and have followed his career with great interest for our entire adult lives. 

When Big Dawg wants to motivate people, he does it with the skill of an 11th dimensional chess master. 

The audience he intends his remarks for is not always the audience he’s delivering them to. 

His words are well-chosen, purposeful, and deliberately vague most of the time. 

When he speaks, there are usually coded messages in most of what he says.  

If he’s never once, in all these years, in every office he’s held and in his role as a former President ever told people not to protest, not to speak out for what they believe in, not to stand up to bad government and runaway deficit…then why on Earth would he start now…and do so on behalf of a man who called him a RAAACIST and every day seeks to impugn and degrade his much-beloved legacy?

That’s just our take on this.