Speaking at The Panetta Institute recently with Bill O'Reilly, James Carville made the off-handed comment that Hillary's campaign would benefit from being closely associated with the former President of the United States of America, William Jefferson Clinton, who is "the most popular man on earth".
Of course, Bill O'Reilly rolled his eyes and about a third of the members of the audience reacted by snickering, laughing and/or moaning, to which James Mr. Carville responded: (paraphrasing)
"Moan and laugh all you want, it happens to be a fact. Maybe that should be the one thing that you take home with you tonight: That some things are just 100% objectively, factually true - even if you don't want them to be. As displeasing as it may be to some of us, global warming is not a liberal myth made up by Al Gore and the Democratic Party, FOX News in not fair and balanced, the Earth is not 5000 years old and President Clinton is the most popular man on Earth. Get over it."
Over the course of the last six or seven years, I've become such a far-left liberal, just barely finding any room left to stand on the very furthest outer fringes of the Democratic Party, that I have plenty of legitimate things to bitch about when it comes to both President Clinton and James Carville - but unlike the fringe-right and even the 'mainstream' members of the Republican Party, I don't have any problem with reality or facing the facts.
Is Clinton the most popular person on Earth? I don't know, I don't really care and it doesn't really matter.
He's definitely ONE of the most popular people in the world - and that DOES matter.
(*FYI: I caught the re-run of the Panetta Institute discussion, a televised re-broadcast of the event on C-SPAN - here is a brief excerpt on YouTube)
Another notable quotable from James Carville's Panetta Institute discussion: (paraphrasing)
"I have good news for everybody tonight. If you're a Democrat, you should know that the Democrats would have to literally TALK THEMSELVES out of being elected, across the board, in the upcoming '08 elections. If you're a Republican, the good news is that we Democrats are perfectly capable of doing that."
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