Posted on 06/19/2004 6:03:30 AM PDT by livesbygrace
It was George Will who said that Clinton was not the worst president in history, but he was the worst man ever to be president.
Please... How could Fred Barnes even think of tarnishing Calvin Coolidge like that. We need more presidents like Coolidge.
Clinton's problem is simple.
Not even Clinton can get away with a book that completely ignores reality. He has to talk about Monica, etc., in the book because every one knows pretty much what happened. The only real debate between the American people is whether or not he should have been impeached (and count me as one who thinks he should have been).
Now, the same American media that has turned smut into a spectator sport is going to focus on the affair. They aren't going to spend much time on Clinton's policies or (alleged) accomplishments because they aren't "sexy" enough.
So, basically, Clinton is out promoting his book and, whether he wants to or not, reminding people that he was a skirt chasing serial liar. He is cementing his reputation as a satyr not a leader.
bump
Either he or Warren Harding. Neither man had enough character to be entrusted to be a town councilman.
Do you mean impeached or convicted? He was, in fact, impeached.
I guess that's what happens after a Humming Lewinsky!
Har! Har! Har!
Sorry, I'm a little full of myself this AM.
That's better!
"They aren't going to spend much time on Clinton's policies or (alleged) accomplishments because they aren't "sexy" enough."
Odd since so many looney liberals are ugly inside and out filled with hatred to the bone. But they know selling sex is such an easy cop out for them and nothing else exists in their carpet bag of tricks.
Ok..ok you win :-)
Clinton is not a failed president, only an insignificant one.
It figures that Clinton’s two “great accomplishments” would be lies.
First lie: Clinton's inherited an economy that had been growing for almost two years, and left with an economy in shambles.
CNN’s Brooke Jackson has reported: “Three days before Christmas 1992, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally issued its official proclamation that the recession had ended 21 months earlier. What became the longest boom in U.S. history actually began nearly two years before Clinton took office.”
According to a report by MSNBC: “The longest economic expansion in U.S. history faltered so much in the summer of 2000 that business output actually contracted for one quarter, the government said Wednesday in releasing a comprehensive revision of the gross domestic product. Based on new data, the Commerce Department said that the GDP — the country’s total output of goods and services — shrank by 0.5 percent at an annual rate in the July-September quarter of 2000.”
Second lie: Clinton’s toppling of Milosevic was a war crime the likes of which we have not seen from any American president.
In that NATO-led assault – which according to some estimates cost as much as $75 billion – we bombed Belgrade for 78 days, killed almost 3,000 civilians, and deliberately shredded the civilian infrastructure (including every bridge across the Danube.)
We deliberately devastated the environment, bombed the Chinese embassy, came very close to engaging in armed combat against Russian forces, and in general, pursued a horrific and inhumane strategy to rain misery on the civilian population of Belgrade in order to pressure Milosevic into surrendering.
Why did we do all that? The US did not even have an arguable interest in the Balkans, and no one ever tried to claim that Serbia represented any kind of threat to our nation or our interests.
But for months the Clinton administration had told us that Milosevic was waging a vicious genocide against Albanians Muslims, and needed to be stopped. The New York Times called it a “humanitarian war.” In March 1999 – the same month that the bombing started – Clinton’s State Department publicly suggested that as many as 500,000 Albanian Kosovars had been murdered by Milosevic’s regime. In May of that year, as the bombing campaign was drawing to a close, Secretary of Defense William Cohen lowered that estimate 100,000.
Now, five years after the bombing, after all the forensic investigations have been completed, the prosecutors at Milosevic’s “War Crimes” trial in the Hague have barely been able to document a questionable figure of perhaps 5,000 “bodies and body parts.” During the war, the American people were told that Kosovo was full of mass graves filled with the bodies of murdered Albanians. But none have been found.
"Clinton was a president of little consequence."
His legacy is really measured only by the harm he did to the country.
And his book tour seems very unimportant now, in light of Paul Johnson's beheading.
I've been telling my in-laws and my wife this very same thing. Dubya disarmed Clinton in less than 5 minutes by being so gracious with Bubba and Crusty.
Clinton will look like a fool if he goes around bashing Bush on anything.
His one chance for greatness was blown.
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