Whatever magic Bill Clinton had is gone. I don’t know whether it is because he simply old and tired and resentful of being dragged out on the road to campaign for his harpy wife while there is so much available underage poon or if he is a Willy Loman-type past-his-prime salesman flogging a truly terrible product for the sake of pride.

Yesterday, Bill Clinton was on a campaign stop in Bluffton, South Carolina. He took questions from the crowd. Hilarity ensued.(Story/video by way of The American Mirror.)

TRANSCRIPT

U/I MAN: …I did eight years of active duty service, two tours in Iraq. From a platoon of thirty-one, I had seven that were killed, six wounded beyond return, we got hit hard. And I know there’s a lot of military… probably people in crowd with military service members… I’m anxious to get to the VA, I’m not sure so I wanted to…

CLINTON: I am.

U/I MAN: Hopefully, you can get to it, but I know that we’ve had…

CLINTON: I’m not talking about the VA…

U/I MAN: But we have loved ones that we want to hear about and we care about, and I’ve met with many of these Gold Stars parents and families so I’ve…

CLINTON: Are you done with your speech?

U/I MAN: I’ve seen them mourn, and the thing is we had four lives in Benghazi that were killed and your wife tried to cover it up. Going over those lives, those four lives, those four American lives, if someone lost their son, their grandchild, their brother…

CLINTON: Are you a Marine?

U/I MAN: Let me talk. Yes, I was a Marine. I was in an infantry unit out in California, I was a Marine drill instructor out here at Parris Island…

CLINTON: Are you finished, sarge…

U/I MAN: I think that every recruit, regardless of race, religion, color, okay…

CLINTON: Okay, now can I answer?

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES

CLINTON: Okay, now can I answer?

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES

CLINTON: I heard your speech. I heard your speech. Now listen to me.

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES

CLINTON: I’m not your commander-in-chief anymore but if I were I’d tell you to be more polite and sit down.

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES

U/I MAN: I won’t take it. I will just raise my voice.

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES. SECURITY TAKES U/I MAN BY ARM.

U/I MAN: I’m a citizen. But the bottom line is that (unintelligble).

CLINTON: Don’t throw him out. I you shut up and listen to my answer I’ll answer you.

U/I MAN IS EJECTED

CLINTON: Can I tell you something. That is what is wrong. His mind has been poisoned by lies and he won’t listen.

U/I WOMAN: Hillary lied over four coffins. Four coffins. So all the families are liars? Are they liars? I want to know, I want to know.

CLINTON: Give me a chance, lady.

U/I WOMAN: Well answer. Did she lie? Did she lie?

CLINTON: No.

U/I WOMAN: She didn’t lie? The families are lying?

CLINTON: Will you listen to me?

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES

CLINTON: Are you going to listen to my answer?

U/I WOMAN: I am.

CLINTON: Are you afraid?

U/I WOMAN: No, I’m not afraid because I know you’re going to lie.

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES

SECURITY TAKES U/I WOMAN BY ARM.

U/I WOMAN: She lied over four coffins. Over our military men.

DEMOCRAT MOB NOISES. U/I WOMAN EJECTED.

This is amazing. It is little short of incredible that it has never occurred to Bill and Hillary Clinton that they will be asked about Benghazi or any of Hillary’s other misadventures while Secretary of State. But that is clearly the case. If you watch Clinton, he is not cool and using a friendly crowd as a barrier to the hecklers, he is flustered and obviously confused. What is more amazing is that he did not have a pat set of talking points available to answer the questions. They don’t even have to be true, they just have to be consistent with Hillary’s story. But the best he can come up with is “his mind has been poisoned by lies.” What kind of juvenile bullsh** is that?

Both he and Hillary had better get used to this. There are more Benghazi revelations coming and it is going to be a long campaign season.