Posted on 10/21/2003 7:46:30 AM PDT by Mia T
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:17:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The Gray Lady's review trashing "Bill Clinton: An American Journey. Great Expectations" was written by Todd S. Purdum, the husband of Clinton's first White House press secretary, Dee Dee Myers - though Times readers weren't informed of his connction to Clinton.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Rising from the downtown streets, a $160 million center will one day be a place to celebrate the accomplishments of Bill Clinton's eight years as leader of the free world.
Just a few blocks away, a Houston businessman and a former one-term Republican congressman from New York are hoping to build a center of their own to mock the Clinton presidency.
"We already hear he's going to bring a bunch of egghead economists to his library to say how great the economy was when he was president," said former U.S. Rep. John LeBoutillier. "And we'll find our own who can say it had nothing to do with him. As long as he's talking, we'll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him from re-writing history."
...
"Reagan, Nixon, that's the past," he said. "The problem is Clinton's still young, he's the most powerful force in Democratic politics and he would like nothing more than to erase the past so he can return to the White House with Hillary."
As Clinton seeks to mark legacy, counter-library group wants to mock it |
WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS
by Mia T, 12-30-02
If mutability of meaning was necessary for the survival of the clintons--their survival hinged ultimately on the deconstruction of words and laws--it is more than a little ironic, and a manifestation of the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego, that clinton's monument to himself will necessarily define the clintons with the permanance of great inviolate places of iconic architecture.
Whereas a huckster removes meaning from institutions --the wife picked up where the husband left off--an architect encodes meaning in buildings. James S. Polshek, the architect with the dubious distinction of having been commissioned to build the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, believes that a successful architectural solution must necessarily be rooted in relevance.
Just as Polshek's buildings have physical layers, so too do they have layers of meaning. His Rose Center for Earth and Space, for example, is informed formally and programmatically by the historic architecture of a designated landmark even as it redefines itself, (often too self-consciously, in my view), in Star-Trekian terms. Reduced to its essence, the building is the nascent universe before the Big Bang, the promise of the undifferentiated cell in its mother's womb.
The "bridge to the 21st century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it...
The architect is often the master of the inside joke, witness Robert Venturi's postmodern chairs. Venturi exploited--unabashedly and with abandon--the vocabulary of Las Vegas, its stage-set-as-reality and its roadside culture--bright, clashing, ugly and fake. The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage.
The flip side of the encoded meaning of the architect is the terrorist's decoding of it. To bin Laden, the World Trade Center was Jewish capitalism encoded in urban space. If Polshek's vision of clinton's library is a bridge, the inside joke is that, at best, it is a bridge to nowhere.
More likely, it is a bridge to the 7th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.
copyright Mia T 2002 |
eyes wide shut EPILOGUE: (ADDITIONAL AUDIO) Hear Christopher Shays: "The bottom line: HE DID RAPE BROADDRICK."
View the Juanita Broaddrick clintonRAPE interview NOW
|
When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison.
A risible and repulsive result;
While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy,
In the end,
We will have set apart clinton as the hero
Mia T, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |
The REAL "Living History" -- clintoplasmodial slime
The party's predicament prompted Democratic strategist Susan Estrich to make this prediction to Fox News Channel's Tony Snow on Sunday: "I still think Hillary will get in . . . she's unelectable but certainly nominatable." Iowa Headliner Hillary Has Dems Fuming |
While 70% of the electorate get it, only one pundit, Bill Bennett, has been sharp enough to see through this clinton " infrastructure " complex-question fallacy scheme. When Sean Hannity ( Hannity and Colmes , FoxNews) asked Bennett whether "she would run," Bennett first asked Hannity to clarify who the "she" was, and, when told, delivered the coup de grâce, "Run for what? clinton Complex-Question Fallacy Scheme |
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)
(THE RECALL'S BIGGEST LOSERS -- the clintons)
The clintons
have arrogated the Democratic party in perpetuity,
and remade it in their ugly image.
In one fell swoop,
they have decimated their party,
and shredded the very fabric of western civilization--
perhaps irreparably.
Not a very good development
for democratic careers (or countries)....
One has to wonder how much longer
the average D pol will tolerate this grotesque pair....
There are doubtless multiple coups in the works.
Susan Estrich is merely greasing the guillotine.
But he is!
Good work, Mia! Again!
the movie |
Your work is like art, MiaT. Thanks.
Clinton is more perceptive than I thought.
Bill Clinton is our "first female president." novelist Mary Gordon said at an anti-impeachment rally in New York. (This was at about the same time fellow fiction writer Toni Morrison said he was the first black President.) This may be stretching it. But if not quite a female, he is the next best thing to it, our first feminist, even a feminine, president, so cued to emotion and feeling, so alert to nuances that may become crevices of opportunity. Few ever stepped out of the "prison of gender" so much as Bill Clinton, the mama's boy, sheltered by so many strong women, and so secure in their protective circle that at times he has seemed to be one of the girls. In many ways, most of his traits seemed to be female: He cried. He emoted. He hugged without mercy. He never stopped talking. His m.o. was seduction, not conquest. He tended to whine, and not threaten. He seemed to dislike, even fear, the armed forces. His physical presence appeared soft and squishy. He had a weight problem. People made fun of his thighs. True to form, he followed the feminist line on all points of theory. He gave them a Cabinet that looked the way that they thought that America ought to, not only with people of varying color, but of fierce-looking women and tame-looking men.
|
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.