Posted on 11/25/2004 7:43:59 AM PST by an amused spectator
At the dedication of the Clinton library last week in Little Rock, Karl Rove and President Bush received separate tours of the dramatic building, a glistening silver, suspended boxcar filled with light and with a panoramic view of the Arkansas river. Flung across the river stands an old railroad bridge - and to Clinton watchers, bridges represent "the bridge to the 21st century", the former president's re-election slogan in 1996...[snip]
...Then, when the presidents were announced, Bush tried to push his way past Clinton at the library door to be first in line, against the already accepted protocol for the event, as though the walk to the platform was a contest for alpha male...[snip]
...According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future George W Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician; he was also the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact...[snip]
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Sid Vicious is as much a snippy twit as he ever was.
At the private luncheon afterwards, in a heated tent pitched behind the library, Shimon Peres delivered a heartfelt toast to Clinton's perseverance in pursuing the Middle East peace process. Upon entering the tent, Bush, according to an eyewitness, told an aide: "One gulp and we're out of here." He had informed the Clintons he would stay through the lunch, but by the time Peres arose with wine glass in hand the president was gone.
Works for me. Next toast was probably to Arafat anyway.
Blumenthal appears to have graduated from the same pseudo journalism school that Jayson Blair came from. Both of them take their wet dreams and try make them into an article or oped.
"The Bridges of Hadmesome County."
Yeah, clintbilly and cartbilly were prime examples of former presidents showing "protocol" during the past 4 years.
How do these guys get in print?
This guy is seriously deluded or deranged. The writing shows it. The event was biblical..."The opening ceremony was biblical in its spectacle, length and rain."
>>"You're not such a scary guy," joked his guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician; he was also the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact. <<
He does not recognize a joke? Sidney is deluded or he takes this far too seriously.
>>Or was this a wishful paranoid fantasy of ubiquitous terrorism destroying Clinton's legacy with one blow? Or a projection of menace and messianism, with only Bush grasping the true danger, standing between submerged threat and civilisation? Perhaps it was simply his way of saying he wouldn't build his library near water. <<
Messianism? Sidney has a religion problem. And Al Queda does have a navy.
>>Clinton concluded his remarks with a challenge to Bush couched in terms of his own failure - "where we fell short ... the biggest disappointment in the world to me ... peace in the Middle East ... I did all I could." He then faced Bush: "But when we had seven years of progress toward peace, there was one whole year when, for the first time in the history of the state of Israel, not one person died of a terrorist attack, when the Palestinians began to believe they could have a shared future. And so, Mr President, again, I say: I hope you get to cross over into the promised land of Middle East peace. We have a good opportunity, and we are all praying for you." <<
Clinton can admit failure and deny it, all in the same sentence, and Sidney does not have a problem. Although if you look at reality, Clinton was being played. By actively participating in the election against Bibi Netanyahu (sp), and electing Barak with his weak stand, Clinton guaranteed a hardliner would follow.
Clinton had a failed foreign policy in almost every way.
But Sidney is blind to reality. And he gets paid to write. That's the problem.
DK
Much as the boxcars of Europe carried thousands to their deaths.
Yes, and same with the "submarine" anecdote that makes up half of Blumenthal's story. Bush was obviously snickering at the thought that he needed to be protected from attack from the water.
-ccm
He should change his name to Clymer
The thing looks like a mobile home but, as always, Sid sounds like a schoolgirl with a crush on Billy.
And he IS known for his dramatic retelling of events, isn't he, using more than a dollop of creativity when the mood strikes. LOL
WHAT Blumie LIE!... Don't be rididulous - Balky..
We once saw Sidney Blumenthal on the street in front of the White House, waiting to go past the guard shack to the press area. He was a slender man, wearing one of those expensive gray raincoats, and he looked really mean, above it all, a rotten fphuck.
Looked more like a mobil home (straight out of Paula Jones' trailer court) than a library. All it needed was astroturff.
Carter, Bush - they are both presidents, so I guess it's close enough for some. ;-)
LOL! Karl gets to do a great bit from offstage, which Bloomie swallows and subsequently goes into high dudgeon over... a twofer.
This reads like an "Onion" article. President Bush pushed ahead in line? Maybe his secret service personnel wanted him out of there so they wanted to forge ahead. Otherwise, this doesn't sound like the President at all. Blamenthal's a liar.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at his house on November 3...
At least he didn't accuse Bush of stalking Clinton... ;-)
Betcha they're keeping the local chemist busy...
The Squid wouldn't lie to anyone, would he?
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