Throwback Thursday...

`You're wearing THAT again?

(The Clintons and The Baslers, 1994)

There are two reasons why I chose today’s story, You’re Wearing THAT, Again? to rerun on Throwback Thursday.

First, it has a very clear Christmas theme, so you can read it without losing the holiday mood, and that’s very important.

Secondly, it centers on a U.S. President and the White House, back in a more innocent time before the onrushing total eclipse washes over us, turning daytime into darkness, just a month from now.

The story takes us back to the Bill Clinton years. Sure, he had extramarital affairs, but not with porn stars, and he didn’t peddle bibles and gold sneakers and wristwatches plastered with his logo.

Nor did that President see a global pandemic as just a hoax that would soon disappear, “like magic.”

And he didn’t appoint the absolute scum of the earth to cabinet positions, and his name wasn’t a global punchline, and he could speak in complete sentences.

He didn’t watch a mob of his supporters rampage through the Capitol Building and then spend four years pretending it had never happened, even though we all saw it with our very own eyes.

He didn’t run for election making up stories about immigrants eating pets, and his administration didn’t seem to long for a return to the halcyon days of polio and iron lungs.

Oh, and he didn’t think women who were victims of rape and incest should just have their babies and shut up.

Gosh, I’m sorry, I seem to have gone off on a tangent, here.

I can’t promise it won’t happen again. .

Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy, You’re Wearing THAT, Again?