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No such thing
as innocent
bystanding

"CASSANDRA"
Seamus Heaney

...The Lewinsky matter is not about the minor and personal question of whatever an individual does in the pursuit of happiness behind closed doors. And it is not about the diversionary question of prosecutorial misconduct. It is about the largest, most central and most public of questions: whether we demand that the president obey the law, whether we accept that the president lies to us.

There are a great many laws on the books of this country, many of them onerous and some of them odious. Nevertheless, we are all required to obey them all. You have to tell the truth under oath, and so does the president. You may not conspire to obstruct justice, and neither may the president. You must not paw women who come to you seeking employment, and so too must not the president. To excuse the head of government from the laws that govern the rest of us is not to tolerate one man's peccadilloes; it is to tolerate the corruption of democracy.

And it is this fomenting of corruption that is the great problem with Clinton. The president has always had around him a constellation of defenders -- the planet Rodham, the moon Blumenthal, the satellites
Carville and Begala -- who are prepared to do whatever is necessary in defense of anything Clinton does....

[Y]ear by year, scandal by scandal, the defense of Clinton has made the rest of us accomplices to these lies. The most serious consequence of this has been to devastate what is left of liberalism's claim to be the philosophy of morality in politics....

The problem with Clinton is not only that he lies; it is that he makes liars out of everybody else. The problem is not only that his moral standards are low; it is that he requires that everybody else lower theirs to meet his. By the time he is finished, so too will be the quaint idea of a higher ground in politics.
Michael Kelly, "Making Liars of Us All" (excerpt), Washington Post, 2/11/98


The problem with Clinton is not only that he lies; it is that he makes liars out of everybody else. The problem is not only that his moral standards are low; it is that he requires that everybody else lower theirs to meet his. By the time he is finished, so too will be the quaint idea of a higher ground in politics.

Michael Kelly, "Making Liars of Us All" (excerpt), Washington Post, 2/11/98

Hypocrisy abounds in this Age of Clinton, a Postmodern Oz rife with constitutional deconstruction and semantic subversion, a virtual surreality polymarked by presidential alleles peccantly misplaced or, in the case of Jefferson posthumously misappropriated...

Mia T, THE OTHER NIXON

Biography lends to death a new terror.--Oscar Wilde

Yesterday, Daniel Patrick Moynihan died. Today, the clintons are arrogating his soul. Hardly surprising. In 1999, the clintons were not at all shy about seizing his still-warm senate seat.
One has merely to recall the Thomas Jefferson double-helix hoax to understand that posthumous misappropriation is, for the obvious reason, the clintons' preferred method of legacy inflation….
Standard-Issue clintonism
If misappropriation of Jefferson's alleles hinged on a broken line of descent, misappropriation of Moynihan's endorsement depends on a broken line of dissent. Like Sally Hemmings' progeny, Moynihan's later acquiescence is of dubious lineage

Mia T, Moynihan Myths

Mia T, 5.18.03
Defining Decency Down: clinton Revisionism Continues…
Reciprocal Intern-Exploitation-Purgation Attempt at JFK Library
"I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine...."

<< The problem with Clinton is not only that he lies; it is that he makes liars out of everybody else. The problem is not only that his moral standards are low; it is that he requires that everybody else lower theirs to meet his. By the time he is finished, so too will be the quaint idea of a higher ground in politics. >>

I miss Michael Kelly.

BTTT.

Mrs KKKli'ton's base is the mindless 35% bottom of the Bell Curve too stupid to know it is being lied to -- and/or too damned mean spirited and/or greedy to care.

Imagine what it must feel like to wake up every morning to that certainty.

And to look all around, as she does every single day of her existence and say, "Is THIS all there IS?

[If that woman could just keep her all-consuming psychopathological hatred and rage out of her voice for just the time it takes her to read one sentence, she would be a very very very serious threat to the future of Human Civilization! As it is, surely she is [And long before "JANUARY 2005 COMES AROUND!"] certainly certifiable to confinement at the court's pleasure in an institution for the criminally insane!]

Blessings -- B A