Posted on 11/29/2004 5:40:37 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
It's surprising that four years after President Clinton left office, the Tallahassee Democrat would devote a full, half-page of its precious editorial space to a hate-Clinton column.
The paper didn't give the assignment to Bubba Berlow or to Bubba Cotterrell. It gave the assignment to a carpetbagger from the New York Daily News, Michael Goodwin.
Goodwin thinks he is being cute, catering to us Tallahassee hayseeds by calling ex-President Clinton "Bubba."
The occasion that gives rise to the column is recent dedication of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, our sister capital in the Arkansas, the state that served as a springboard that catapulted Clinton to the presidency.
It is this feat that sticks in Goodwin's craw and keeps him awake nights.
Imagine, a southern governor who, while serving as president of the United States, gave us and Wall Street the best eight years in our nation's history, and did it without resorting to a made-in-the-White House war.
Instead of using this festive occasion to dwell upon Clinton's accomplishments, as did President Bush generously and eloquently in his remarks at the dedication, Goodwin uses the occasion to remind us of a woman named Monica.
He doesn't mention Newt Gingrich, Prince Charles or a certain man from Abilene. Whom is he trying to kid? Their dalliances are writ large in history, and the names of their co-dalliants are well known. When was the last time you read about any of those dalliances in an op-ed piece?
What is so bilious, in 2004, about a character flaw in Bill Clinton, who served as President of the United States from 1993 to 2001? Has Goodwin never seen "The Crucible" or read "The Scarlet Letter" or any of William (Bubba) Shakespeare's great plays?
Why is Goodwin not writing about having a self-proclaimed alcoholic in the White House, one who would mislead the nation into war, costing, so far, more than 1,000 precious lives of American servicemen? Are those 1,000 lives less important than one Monica?
Is a Connecticut aristocrat, posing as a two-gun John Wayne from Texas, less of a miscreant than a Bubba from Little Rock? Yes, a Bubba with warts as well as greatness.
It was Bill Clinton's humanity that made him a great president. Did that human being have flaws? Of course he did. Trying to humiliate him by calling him, "Bubba" only shows the writer's ignorance. In true Bubba country, "Bubba" is a term of endearment. It implies a bond between the Bubba and the people.
That's why Goodwin is frightened to death of "Bubba Hillary." And that's what keeps the hate-Clinton columns coming.
Dan
He also perfected the "clenched-jaw lip-bite" complete with slightly misty eyes.
I could feel the bile rise whenever he did that bit.
This thread should let us all know that anything goes for the rats when they seize power. You can lie, steal,cheat, give secrets to the Chinese, pardon drug dealers when you leave, anything at all is o.k. in the name of rat power, even rewriting history. Read this and know your enemy.
Which have been thoroughly debunked.
I always have to think these defenders of the Clinton "character" are thinking to themselves, "Gee, if Bill got away with THAT, what I did doesn't seem so bad!"
Yes. I should have added that. Thanks.
Who was it that said Bill Clinton is such an effective phony that he could cry out of one eye?
He was and is the master of double-speak...
He also perfected the "clenched-jaw lip-bite" complete with slightly misty eyes.
I could feel the bile rise whenever he did that bit.
He was the total package when it came to working the public over. Thinking back on it though, he wouldn't have made it into office if Ross Perot would have kept out of the whole affair.
He did a lot to hurt this country...and lied about it all along...and is still lying about iy.
This positive reporting served to promote the internet speculative market 'bubble', and it served to disguise the danger lurking as americans endured multiple unanswered attacks on US Soil and against interests abroad. Not to mention that the clintonistas deployed troops into more countries than any president in previous history.
Presidents Bush (41 and 43) and Reagan in contrast succeed in their presidencies IN SPITE of the constant barrage of negative press. If conservative presidents were showered with the fawning and positive media coverage that the liberal presidents INVARIABLY receive, their success would be legendary.
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's not the politicians. It's the politicians' relationships with the press and how much the press likes the politicians that determines success in these matters. The press loved Klinton so much because he's as greedy and dirty as they are. It was a match made in heaven. Even though they had to report on blue dresses and such, they tried to back it up with "it's personal, so it doesn't affect the presidency".
You can have the best intentions in the world, but if the press doesn't like you, you're screwed (see Bush). Luckily the New Media is finally making some headway.
"Ike Was My Boss, Summersby's 1948 memoir of the war years, makes no mention of her "affair" with Eisenhower, but her 1976 autobiography suggests that it was common knowledge in wartime London and Washington. Persons close to Eisenhower, however, have maintained that the "affair" - which by her own account did not include any sexual act beyond kissing - was strictly a fantasy on her part, and have also questioned the authenticity of the 1976 book, which was not published until after her death."
Mighty thin; in fact downright anorexic.
........though not in accomplishment...but in survival
Aww! Abe's got a crush on Billy-Jeff
George Will.
Sorry, Abe. Clinton was not popular or great. He never got more than 50% of the vote, showing that his poll numbers were cooked by those like you in the propaganda press. Without Ross Perot, Clinton would have ended up munching on pork rinds in his car while cruising closed garbage dumps looking for tattered, old Playboy magazines.
Everything about Clinton was cheap. He cheapened the presidency, the Whitehouse and America. When he dies his tombstone epitaph should read: "Cheap Bill. If common sense was measured in pennies, Bill didn't own enough to rub two together."
Thank you. When this subject is broached I get so tired of those who act like "Monica" was a side issue and not one of a whole string of women and all the attendant implications.
It was Bill Clinton's humanity that made him a great president. Oh, that's the standard now. How convenient.
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