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.
I particularly enjoyed his laughing at Ron Brown's funeral and his cheating on the woman he married. However, it does say a lot about what Democrats think a human should be as well explains why they have difficulty in defining when a human begins.
Muleteam1
hear, hear.
Abe comes across as stupid in the extreme in this "piece".
LOL
Well, I seem to remember a LOT of people not agreeing with this assessment of the Clinton years. His first two years in office were highlighted by the immolation of the Branch Davidians in Waco, and millions of gun-owning middle Americans becoming so distrustful of his government that they formed up into "militias", giving Clinton a domestic enemy to persecute while giving Islamic militants a welcoming hand.
The prosperous economy didn't have anything to do with Clinton, but then savvy politicos know that the president usually has very little impact on the economy.
Clinton owed the economic success of his tenure to the Republican 104th congress.
And let's not forget, the great sense of prosperity in the market was based on phony numbers by dishonest executives, and this didn't get caught until Bush took office and went after Enron, leaving us all wondering - were we really as well off as we thought?
So... The question I have to pose to the author of this piece is, aside from being lucky enough to have been president during a boom in the business cycle, can he name even one single Clinton accomplishment?
And easy seduction of female underlings doesn't count, nor does being impeached.
...or a certain man from Abilene.
Bill Burkett
...and the names of their co-dalliants are well known.
Robin Rather & Mary Mapes
(BTW, is Abe's last name pronounced "cess-pool"?)
We need statesmen.
The history has been written. The best thing that can be said of Clinton is that he is a self-proclaimed cocksman. He had the opportuniy to grasp at greatness and took the lowest possible road. Ask yourself, "What do I think, what comes to mind when Clinton's name comes up?" Answer..Monica. Stained dresses. Felatio while conversing with a sitting congressman. Like it or not he is a caricature of perversion. I also think of how pathetic it is that he could not set aside his libido for the time of his presidency,give up one centilla of concern for his daughter and wife. Does anyone really think he cared for this country more than his next conquest. No. Clinton, despite all of his protestations and that of his sycophants, his is sliding inexorably to become the butt of a joke. Unfortunately, it is at the expense of America.Yes he is a congenital liar. Yes he is the definition of a sociopath. But mostly, don't you really equate Clinton with a sexual predator who preys on young people, college students, the age of his daughter, and picture in your minds eye Clinton desecrating the oval office and the very voters who put him there? He is, and will always be a disgrace to the office of Presidency.
"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".
It were indeed a "FOOLS' PARADISE"
And these are only the ones we know of, but you forgot Barbra Streisand.
Wouldn't have wanted y'all to miss this one.
Nope, sure wouldn't. :o)
"Did that human being have flaws? Of course he did. Trying to humiliate him by calling him, 'Bubba' only shows the writer's ignorance."
Or the writer trying to divert attention away from the scum's real crimes & high treason.
~eh?
"In true Bubba country, 'Bubba'is a term of endearment."
HA!!
Yea, and so does evoking the moniker El Camino or "Butch".
"It implies a bond between the Bubba and the people."
Yea-yea.
It's a [sticky] bond, too.
...*loaded* with DNA.
It were indeed a "FOOLS' PARADISE"
Yes...
I might also add that this most recent election was a splendid example of the 'fools paradise'. The democrats were depending on the 'exit polls' and the 'media mania'. We recall now that the media pundits actually admitted their bias saying it would be worth '15%' at the polls.
Indeed it was worth 15% to the media industry polls. But the Electoral College poll that really mattered ran counter to the polls the MSM was looking at. That's why they feel 'cheated'. And indeed, they WERE 'cheated' BY THEIR OWN people. The democrats alliance with the Main Stream Media cheats the american public 24hrs a day. So when the media choice candidate kerry started dropping behind, they were absolutely SHOCKED.
I guess I would be shocked too if my only news input were from Dan Rather and the ever affable Cutie Katie Couric.
..."It was Bill Clinton's humanity that made him a great president."...
oh... and all along I thought it was his *humility*...
howdy Lan, and thanks for the chuckle!
Does Kosovo ring any bells? Sudan on impeachment eve?
Fool.
Reagan's 8 years were quite a bit better.
I guess Somalia, Kosovo, Bosnia and Iraq don't count. Apologies to the families of those who served and gave their lives.
He was also very very lucky. Freepers know all the reasons he was lucky so I wont list them. Ross Perot was his big eared lepruchan with a pot of gold and a rainbow.
His nickname should be lucky slick willie
Yes, yes, indeed! He was a wonderful politician! He ( and his wife ) made careers out of finding out what people wanted to hear, and saying it. That's what passes for "brilliance" in today's world. And, I'll bet the author is one of those who actually weeps tears when he hears the "pain feeling" utterances of the world"s greatest hucksters!
Geez pal--you knew I was sick and you sent me this?? My recovery will be set back at least another day!
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