Posted on 06/23/2004 9:38:10 PM PDT by kattracks
It's the juice, stupid.That is the admonition that Bill Clinton should have got from his editors at Alfred A. Knopf. And he would have done well to listen. The juice about what really went on with the dozens of unofficial women in his official life is what everyone, scribes and pharisees most of all, wanted.
Mark Steyn, the deliciously acerbic columnist who writes from the wilds of New Hampshire, describes the ex-president as "a cheesy Vegas lounge act acknowledging the applause of the crowd before launching into his opening number, 'I Get a Kick Out of Me.' " Tina Brown, a somewhat more admiring pundit, insists that Clinton's "glamour is undersung," describing him as "a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room. He is vividly in the present tense and dares you to join him there." So we were prepared to join him in the present tense, waiting to be blown away.
Instead, we get a lot of past tense, a self-pitying account of growing up in Arkansas, plenty of psychological argle-bargle, and loads of wonkery. Only a smidgen of Gennifer Flowers, a little bit of Monica and a lot of excuse-making disguised as repentant confessional. In sum, a lot more of the Bill Clinton we know so well, with no surprises. If writing his autobiography has taught him anything about himself, he has hidden it well.
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You'll never get the real Clinton, cause there isn't one.
What does that mean?
Yes there is. 110% Real PHONEY.
What burns my butt is this crap about Slick Willie coming from an semi-impoverished background. Once his Momma married stepfather Clinton that household took a giant leap up the economic ladder. Not many kids back in the early sixties had a rich uncle who bestowed a car upon them back in high school. His uncle, a car dealer in Little Rock(?), was a powerful man and took good care of his nephew, Slick Willie.
That's not spelled correctly.
What she said is, "He is vividly in the present tents and dares you to join him there."
i.e.,
He's back in Monica's dress again...and this time, he's looking for another cigar holder.
Probably: live the moment, don't think about the consequences, go with the emotion, all the liberal "feel good" mumbo-jumbo.
It means ( as all new age speakers like to remind us all the time) that we shouldn't be judgemental about what he has done in the past. He is trying to do right now and we should just accept him and his "authentic" self serving statements and move on. DOn't live in the past because only haters do that. Live in the moment then nothing you do can be judged as wrong and you have no personal accountability or responsibility....cause it is all in the past. Geez I hate those folks...Come on I have made huge mistakes in my life that I would love to go back and undue but I can't. So what do I do now? I ask for forgiveness, I change my behaviour, and I let people judge me at whatever level they feel they need and I keep on doing the right thing. WOuldn't that have been refreshing if CLinton had even done that?
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