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<p>I hate to wade back into the culture wars forced upon us by Bill Clinton's unjustified impeachment, but since many right-wingers have leapt to pummel the former president on his book tour, those of us not blinded by hate, ideology and a lust for power should at least pitch in with a rebuttal. To that end, here's a short list of better ways to think about Clinton's tenure. Post it on the fridge for handy reference.</p>

    history lesson 2 by Mia T, 6.21.04 hen the clintons and the clinton historiographers are but a faint if still disturbing memory, and a dispassionate, unbiased history of the clinton (either--"one for the price of two," I say) years is recorded, it will be noted that this unfortunate period was a watershed moment for America and western civilization for this was the beginning of their seemingly inexorable descent into the abyss. It will then say that George W. Bush, the greatest American president, turned it all around, that he courageously and brilliantly fought The Great Terror War...

Bill Clinton’s memoirs are to become the bestselling political book in American publishing history. The 1.5 million copies of the first edition of My Life, which will be published on June 22, have already been accounted for in advance orders, and Clinton’s publishers are racing to print a second impression. The former president’s memoirs will eclipse the 1.8 million copies that his wife Hillary sold of her own memoir, Living History, last year. Clinton began a marathon publicity tour last week, addressing a booksellers’ convention in Chicago. He promised his audience that "If the book’s no good, it’s all my...

It appears that former U.S. presidents don't just leave office and fade away. Rather, they brood over their dwindling influence and compulsively seek public attention with ever more ridiculous public pronouncement and publicity stunts. Enter America's biggest walking, talking political joke, William Jefferson Clinton. As popular Big Apple columnist Mugger recently opined: Clinton is a national embarrassment, a bored and bitter politician whose weekly routine is a mixture of lucrative (and usually incoherent) speeches around the world, socializing with celebrities and criticizing Bush with an unprecedented zeal, demolishing the tradition of an ex-president keeping mum, at least for several years,...