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A study in Clintonian weakness
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | October 18, 2003 | Bill Steigerwald

Posted on 10/17/2003 11:12:44 PM PDT by buzzyboop

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:03:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Like it or not, sports fans, the Bill Clinton books are never going to stop coming in your lifetimes. The newest look back at the rude and raunchy era of Bill & Hillary's rule is taken by National Review editor Rich Lowry, whose "Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years" is built around Lowry's forthright, surprising and often critical interviews with about 25 former Clinton administration officials, media spinners and Friends of Bill.


(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintonian; legacy; lowry
Rich Lowry hits the bulls-eye.
1 posted on 10/17/2003 11:12:44 PM PDT by buzzyboop
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To: buzzyboop
if there are 100 people in the room and 99 like Bill Clinton, he'll focus on the one person and devote all of his energy to winning over that one person.

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He liked the challenge of conning someone into becoming a follower.

2 posted on 10/17/2003 11:24:33 PM PDT by RLK
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To: buzzyboop
Clinton is still an adolescent in many ways. He never grew up except in his ability to lie better.
3 posted on 10/17/2003 11:34:41 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA
AS I think back upon Clinton and those tragically lost years, I almost get sick to my stomach with hate and utter disdain for the man.

This is one of the best analyses of Clinton's character failings I have ever read..and sums it up, cogently.

What surprises me is that no fringe whacko has yet taken him out. Maybe he (Clinton) was just not deemed worth the trouble.

At any rate, IMHO, Lowry really has provided us a national service with this work. Have a great fall weekend.

4 posted on 10/18/2003 12:16:58 AM PDT by dk/coro
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To: RLK
"He liked the challenge of conning someone into becoming a follower"

No .. he didn't con them into following him .. he just couldn't stand somebody not liking him. This is why he wouldn't act militarily against terror .. because someone might not like him. That has got to be sick!

George Bush, OTOH, does not make decisions based on whether people will like him, but on what is best for America.
5 posted on 10/18/2003 12:44:52 AM PDT by CyberAnt
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To: buzzyboop
I resent it that for the past decade America was dragged through Clinton's mid-life crisis. How much time and effort was wasted on dealing with one man's character flaws and mental illness while terrorists were left free to make increasingly bold plans?
6 posted on 10/18/2003 2:47:11 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (Lurking since 1997!)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
How much time and effort was wasted on dealing with one man's character flaws and mental illness

How much time and effort was and still is being wasted on dealing with one man's character flaws and mental illness...

I wish he would just go away. He should be treated just like John Lennon's assasin: never mention his name, never talk about him - EVER!

7 posted on 10/18/2003 2:59:18 AM PDT by Aeronaut (In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
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To: buzzyboop
Bump!
8 posted on 10/18/2003 4:15:53 AM PDT by F-117A
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To: buzzyboop
An ode to Billy Goat Klinton:

ODE TO BILL CLINTON: Bill, You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas, I'll bet you couldn't pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel. You canker. You're a sore that won't go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You're a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You're a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt.

You're a jerk, a cad, a weasel. Your life is a monument to stupidity. You're a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You're a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done.

I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You're are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you. You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You're vile, worthless, less than nothing. You're a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. You're a snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set him loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood.

May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You're grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You're foul and disgusting. You're a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won't have sex with you.

You're unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion have to us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You're a waste of flesh. You're ridiculous and obnoxious. You're the moral equivalent of a leech. You're a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You're sour and senile. You're a disease, a puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you're a half-wit. You remind me of drool. You're deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You're dank and filthy. You're asinine and benighted. You're the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You're a smarmy lagerlout git.

You're a clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You're a fiend and a coward. You're a degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.

9 posted on 10/18/2003 4:26:19 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
I don't think it was a "mid life crises" for Clinton to have frolicked with Monica,,it was his way of life,,it was his persona. He needed constant admiration and affirmation, it was something missing in him. He is a narcissitic character and that is not a crises but a condition. Terrible president.
10 posted on 10/18/2003 5:58:34 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: buzzyboop
And what I say in the book is, you need two things to succeed as president - principles and character, and Clinton didn't have either.

Bill Clinton DID have principles, it's just that he couldn't reveal them.

I'm the same age as Clinton, and I too was a lefty who used to sit around with others in "the movement", as we called ourselves, and dream and PLOT for the day when we could get one of our own into the White House. We knew that we would have to find a special person, a chameleon, who could, while cloaking our real agenda of neutering the "military industrial complex" and achieving our utopian socialist vision, tell the people pretty much what they wanted to hear while his ACTIONS would serve our cause.

If you pay attention to Clinton's ACTIONS while in office, you will realize that he never betrayed that vision spawned decades ago.

To assess what was Bill Clinton in the light of his character alone falls well short of what we need to understand about the fact that he had principles, he had an agenda, he remained true to the original socialist vision, especially in light of the fact that we face the possible return of Bill Clinton to the White House in the spectre of Hillary's ascension to the Presidency. It's the only reason they're still married.

11 posted on 10/18/2003 6:33:42 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: JesseHousman
excellent!
12 posted on 10/18/2003 7:06:14 AM PDT by Free_at_last_-2001 (is clinton in jail yet?)
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To: JesseHousman
What you said.....triple it!
13 posted on 10/18/2003 7:34:38 AM PDT by jslade
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To: wayoverontheright
Hillary is the real true believer, she and her crowd really believe the world owes then the good life, because they are spreading the gospel of Socialism.
14 posted on 10/18/2003 8:25:10 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Confession may be good for my soul, but it sure plays hell with my reputation.)
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To: razorback-bert
No doubt about it.
15 posted on 10/18/2003 2:41:37 PM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: Mia T
Audio-book selection ping ;^)
16 posted on 10/18/2003 2:48:43 PM PDT by jla (http://hillarytalks.blogspot.com)
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To: buzzyboop
. Monica was almost the more mature person in the relationship in some ways. But he needed this 22-year-old intern to make him feel important. And when you're president of the United States, you'd hope that you were beyond that kind of stage.

This actually may be more damning of Hillary than Bill. What exactly does she get out of the relationship?

17 posted on 10/18/2003 2:53:47 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: jla
thx. some good stuff here.... ;)
18 posted on 10/18/2003 6:03:18 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Wilhelm Tell
"How much time and effort was wasted on dealing with one man's character flaws and mental illness while terrorists were left free to make increasingly bold plans?"

Roughly eight years and a couple of trillion dollars...

19 posted on 10/18/2003 6:14:05 PM PDT by okie01 (www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
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To: buzzyboop
Actually Jack Wheeler nailed Biil / Hill and the rest..

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/957249/posts?page=1
What Ann Coulter still Doesn’t Understand About Liberals by Jack Wheeler.
20 posted on 10/18/2003 6:29:57 PM PDT by hosepipe
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