Ok well mmmmm I think this is Jack Webb interviewing for RuPaul....

"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," --Bill Clinton

“The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it’s by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules,”

Like what? Trying to change the rules that all the campaigns and the entire Democratic Party agreed to a year ago about states jumping the primary line thus disenfranchising the other 48 states that played by the rules?

Maybe it's "standing up for democracy" by flying to Kazakhstan with a Canadian uranium mining financier and working a three way deal with a brutal dictator who shoots protesters in the street, Bill got $30 million, the Canadian got the mining contract and Bill endorsed Nazarbayev to head an international organization that monitors elections and supports democracy. Way to make us all look good Bill! No wonder the world thinks we're all assholes.

Maybe it's wheeling and dealing with Colombians who murder union organizers. Maybe it'll help some little guys set up sweatshops down there Bill.

Maybe it's his stumping nonstop in NC the last two weeks but as our "first black president" not once appearing before a black crowd asking them to vote for his wife. Writing off the most reliable Democratic demographic in the country will really help in November.

Yeah, there's somebody who thinks they're better than everybody else and plays by a different set of rules but it isn't Obama. It's the guy who used the DNC as his personal political fund and let the rest of the party die on the vine in the 1990s. It's the married guy who thought it was a presidential prerogative to get blown in the Oval Office by a intern while chatting up congressmen on the phone, wasted the last two years of his presidency and left the country to Bush, Cheney, DeLay and the rest of those clowns.

That's some classic projection Bill's got going on there. It makes about as much sense as Anne Coulter calling Obama a "Manchurian candidate" when McCain is the guy who spent years in a Communist POW camp and was tortured into making propaganda films for them.

This is a metaphysical thread dealing with the possibility of hidden political messages from the past in cheesy TV dramas, plus the thrills of recreational drug use. You show up with yet another recycled litany of boring Obamababble and for what? Nobody in this thread is listening; we're all looking at the pretty lights. You're bringing me down, man. Lighten up.

I have always viewed flashbacks as an unexpected added bonus, like finding a second prize at the bottom of a box of Crackerjacks. In fact, if I could find a source of clean acid with guaranteed flashbacks, I'd pay extra.

Readers?

X was always my mileu. And there are no flashbacks with X, so I can't comment.

My fiance, who's drug addled youth is remembered fondly on occasion, has never had a flashback. But yeah, that would be cool, several years later, to go back to the state you were in.

Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!

That was pretty good snark. You sound just like one of those self-righteous young kool-aid drinkers, except they usually throw in some ALLCAPS too.

Old skool ClintonHaters usually include some Vince Foster/Mena Airport stuff, but for some reason these new crybabies don't. Hard to believe it's been 16 years since this fact-free irrational Clenis envy first started.

" . . . we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender . . ."- Winston Churchill

Trust me, dude. Everyone here - scratch that - I know all about the effects of the mentioned drugs, plus a few dozen others, so thanks for yet another oh so serious Jack-Webb-voice lecture straightening everything all out but not needed.

The Webb character is way over the top, completely off base, wrong on every count, yet passionate and convinced that he is the expert and knows it all.

We get it. We get the joke here. Do you?

[About the flashbacks; if you've never had one, you weren't taking acid - or not enough, anyway. Transient, non-threatening, not very intense and certainly not debilitating, but real; definitely real.]

I am not promoting drug use, nor am I condemning it, I just found the video to be um.....funny.

I guess if we were to deconstruct it, it was also saying that drinking was AOK, remember the movies of that era, everyone was doing sleeping pills and drinking, including Doris Day. As far as the heroin to lalala, I mean it's Dragnet.

Now I did try acid in college, but nothing happened, I knew people who did all sorts of drugs and I realized, I kinda liked my brain cells so didn't do it. I'm pretty NORMAL but due to all of the drug tests for jobs I just don't do NORMAL things anymore.
The reason I thought it was funny is because he's so serious and the subject is so extreme and he's talking to a guy totally sloshed so it's unlikely that guy is taking a word in. Also he is talking really fast, the progression of the drugs is pretty hysterical too. I remember those progressions, anyone out there in their late 30s or 40s remember? The reason why I applied it to the campaign is because it's impossible to reason with a drunk guy who can't open his eyes at a bar, similar to trying to reason with someone on a Koolaid sugar high. Just ain't gonna happen. But mentioning the drinking that can be recovered from, and the drugs which begin with a marijuana buzz then go to lsd then cocaine then heroin was truly hysterical. I could not think of how that would look in politics but will try....
kool-aid drinking--blind faith in the candidate (drinking)
to wearing buttons for the candidate or promoting the candidate (marijuana),
cold calling for the candidate (LSD)
blogging for the candidate(cocaine),
Going on the road as a campaign groupie (heroin)

"I'm the expert here, you're not."

But if you were offended by the first one PLEASE don't watch the second one.

Can you imagine anyone doing those camera angles today unless it was intentional?

The entire second video was pure camp. As I love B movies it was right up my amusement alley.

I was on a quest to find a clip with Jack Webb talking to hobos, the bag the hobos have their fifth in is crisp and neatly folded over on the top. It's like they knew what to wear but had never seen one before.

"The great divide in this country is not by race or even income, it's by those who think they are better than everyone else and think they should play by a different set of rules," --Bill Clinton

of illicit drug usage in this thread.

Jeqal is totally innocent. Honest, Officer.