Clinton’s masterful attack on Paul Ryan’s “brass”

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:29:00 +0000

The Democratic National Convention has made a conspicuous show of presenting women speakers and addressing issues that most concern women's bodies -- so much so that conservative toolbag Erick Erickson recently referred to the proceedings as "the Vagina Monologues." So leave it to Bill Clinton to nut things up.

It was the sound bite of the night on Wednesday, the word that, as soon as it was uttered, exploded across the audience both in the auditorium in Charlotte and in living rooms across the land. In the midst of a quintessentially Clintonesque speech – a monologue of pummeling precision, folksy rhetoric and exhausting duration -- the former president launched into a rebuttal of Paul Ryan's claims that Barack Obama has been ravaging Medicare.

"When congressman Ryan looked into the TV camera and attacked President Obama's Medicare savings as the 'biggest, coldest power play,' I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," he shrugged. "Because, that $716 billion is exactly, to the dollar, the same amount of Medicare savings that he had in his own budget." And then came the killer ad-lib: "You got to (admit) one thing -- it takes some brass to attack a guy for doing what you did."

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Clinton’s masterful attack on Paul Ryan’s “brass”