Ed Driscoll included a clip from Primary Colors, the Hollywood film about Bill and Hillary Clinton. In one scene, a young black man explains to Hillary (played by Emma Thompson) why he wants to join the campaign:

I wondered how it would be to work with someone. . . who actually cared about… I mean…It couldn’t always have been the way it is now.

It must have been different in my grandfather’s time. You were there. You had Kennedy. I didn’t. I’ve never heard a president say “destiny” and “sacrifice” without thinking, “bullshit.” Okay, maybe it was bullshit with Kennedy, too. but. . . but people believed it. and I guess, that’s what I want. I want to believe it. I want to be part of something that’s history.

Maybe this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but liberals are self-satirizing, so it’s hard to know. But consider the humor:

• Bill and Hillary Clinton as idealists who care about something besides their own ambition?
• George H. W. Bush had just assembled an international coalition and gotten the United Nations to sanction only the second war in its history (the Korean War being the first) and thrown Saddam out of Kuwait. Nothing to get inspired about, bro?
• Finally, JFK might be bullshit, but people believed it and I want to believe in bullshit too just to be part of history. Whew!

Ed’s Silicon Graffiti Video: