Posted on 06/18/2004 8:38:02 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
I can't bring myself to read this poisonous swill.
Todd S. Purdum and David E. Sanger contributed reporting for this article.
and wonder why a book review at the Times takes three people to complete...
Bubba wrote 950+ pages.... As usual, he doesn't know when to shut up and the book is late.
It was a hung jury, and if the Senate had 2/3 members with integrity he would have been booted out, (Not one single senate rat had enough honor to do the right thing, with 5 RINO's joining them in their fellowship of evil )
Hmmmm. full post from the People's Republic Gazette. Is this allowed? Jeez don't you just love the term sprawling in conjunction with a Clinton review....
Phew, now I dont have to spent $35 on his BS. I know what his BS line already.
but this ...
" ... an overwhelming electoral and popular victory."
Huh? He got *under* 50% in his re-election and that is 'overwhelming'. I am underwhelmed.
Is it just me, or does everyone else find this "sleeping on the couch" business a bit much? Doesn't the White House have a spare bedroom, or twelve? Do these hacks honestly expect us to believe that Clinton slept on a couch, just as they expected us to believe that the Secret Service couldn't protect him from a stalker his daughter's age?
Somehow, it strikes me odd that the President of the United States EVER slept on a couch. I find it extremely odd that the NYT seems to think that this needs no comment..
More to the point -- Lewinsky was too much of a loose cannon, even for him, so he ended things.
Much as he often did in person, he runs through poll results state-by-state, concluding that over all he was happy with the re-election results, an overwhelming electoral and popular victory.
Is getting 49% of the popular vote an overwhelming victory? Then why does his side slam Bush, when Bush had more votes in 2000?
I suppose the Lincoln bedroom was occupied.
To be fair, I think Bubba's greatest problem is that he is blind to thinking ahead to the bigger picture. His famous obsession with seeing one problem at a time got him into trouble. That's a motif that we find find recurring throughout his presidency. The real tragedy is a man of such political skill and charm might have been able to make something of himself had he not been so poll-dependent. In the end for all his grandiose ambitions he achieved little and was able to finish his term in office only because the American people thought removing him from office for lying about a personal matter was too harsh a punishment for a moment of human weakness. That must be little solace for a man who won't be remembered as one of the presidential "greats" in the history books.
Well, as Gomer Pyle would say....."Surprise, surprise, surprise".
The book's length gives the former president plenty of room to settle scores and he does so with his customary élan. He takes the whip to Republicans in Congress;"
Can you tell it really gets under his skin, that because of his failed leadership, a lot of those Republicans got elected to congress in YEAR 2 of his presidency?
"He also notes that in 1996 he signed two directives on terrorism and appointed Richard A. Clarke to be the administration's terrorism coordinator."
Yes, Bill, there are many of us who have already taken note of your appointment of Dick Clarke!
"He explained the sudden appearance of Mrs. Clinton's legal billing records in the White House residence as the product merely of sloppy record-keeping in Arkansas.
But of course! That's how they ended up in the White House?!!
Bill Clinton's biggest problem as president was that his presidency was all about Bill Clinton. He was one of the most selfish men ever to hold the office. Nothing was ever his fault. And nothing will ever be in his mind.
He thinks his re-election was an overhelming victory?? he got 49% and he was running against BOB DOLE and The Crazy Guy!!
The Proust of Little Rock.
True. He and his wife couldn't compromise when it would have helped them politically. When their health care plan was on the ropes, some RINOs offered them half a loaf but they spurned it. They were like those extreme conservatives for whom not getting 100% is a sign of defeat. Well they insisted on their way or nothing and they ended up with nothing. And they still have the chutzpah to blame others for THAT fiasco.
Right....he slept on a couch.....yeah right. He might have slept on a couch when he was free-loading in Martha's Vineyard, but he sure as hell didn't sleep for two months on a White House couch!
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