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Clinton Library's universal appeal seen in its 365,000 visitors (almost every Bubba voter)
Newsday.com ^
| 7/15/05
| DAVID HAMMER
Posted on 07/16/2005 8:35:15 PM PDT by Libloather
Clinton Library's universal appeal seen in its 365,000 visitors
By DAVID HAMMER
Associated Press Writer
July 15, 2005, 7:07 PM EDT
LITTLE ROCK -- The everyman appeal that Bill Clinton peddled in his political campaigns lives on at his presidential library. Among the more than 365,000 visitors who have passed through the library since November, no single demographic stands out.
"I just think he is the only president I'll ever see who will really understand me as a person, and that's why I wanted to see more," said Ava Carter, 48, a black Democrat traveling with James D. Stearns, 55, a white Republican.
**SNIP**
The more popular features of Clinton's library are his gifts from foreign dignitaries, a replica of the Oval Office, touch-screen links to key policies and a continually rolling videotape of his more light-hearted moments.
**SNIP**
Carter, who described herself and Stearns as "the Mary Matalin and James Carville of our apartment complex" in Dallas, said her trip to the Clinton Library was months in the making.
"I'd never even been to Arkansas, but last year we planned to go to Clinton's birth home in Hope, up to Hot Springs (where Clinton grew up) and here," Carter said. "James said, 'Sure, let's go."'
**SNIP**
"Of the 41 million vehicles that pass by this stretch of interstate a year, 4 to 5 million are first-time passersby; that's a big plus when the newness wears off," Rutherford said.
Rutherford says the continuing popularity of Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., should sustain the library's buzz longer than the others. Yesawich says it would be a mistake to count on that because other ex-presidents have been in the public eye without adding to their museums' attendance figures.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: 000; 365; almost; appeal; bubba; clinton; clintonlibrary; every; hillary; impeached; library; propaganda; universal; visitors; voter
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To: Libloather
I'd rather go to the greater Bugtussle toadstool museum than to the Clintoon Library and Massage palor. But that's just me.
61
posted on
07/17/2005 12:27:59 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: Libloather
- BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE
For the children?- the clintons ARE pornography downloads
ALFRED E."What, me worry?" CLINTON + CRAZY HIL MAD COVER STORY
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE
HILLARY'S TRIPLE PLAY
the clinton putsch + filegate + the gorelick wall
How did the flower children fall for the clintons, 2 such self-evident thugs and opportunists?- (FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!)
Alfred E. Neuman + the threat of terrorism, according to hillary
HILLARY IS NIXON-PLUS part 1
BEWARE THE SYNERGY
Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with
clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America
to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.
KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"
CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA
- an amazon.com review, too
counter the clintonoids, keep it readily visible
FReep rating of review HERE
(NB: review listed twice. rate BOTH. Thanx!)
THE OLYMPIC HILDABEAST FLOPS
hillary stupidly invokes clinton utter failure: 9/11
HILLARY CLINTONSTAHL
clinton agitprop machine censors truth about hillary
BEAUTY AND THE HILDABEAST
- JEANINE PIRRO: 30-year career fighting for the abused woman
- HILLARY CLINTON: 30-year career abusing women
- CLINTONS' DOCUMENTED ABUSE OF WOMEN
hillary clinton is a "CONGENITAL LIAR"
("I am not a crook")
hillary clinton: ABUSER, NOT VICTIM
retrograde feminist fraud positions herself as victim (again) in order to win White House
[FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!]
NOTE THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN CLINTON REACTION TIME AND CONTENT TO THE TWO RAPE CHARGES
CATCHING THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KINGFISH
differential reaction to the two rape charges snares the clintons
CLINTON RAPES, REVISIONISM, USEFUL IDIOTS AND ENTROPY (an update)
1st Feminist Prez Impeached
(clinton, pushed by the "smartest woman in the world," managed to impeach himself)
HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue
JENNINGS DOES A DIMBLEBY: clinton legacy-RAGE redux
THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 3
THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2
THE JEANINE PIRRO--HILLARY CLINTON VIRTUAL MATCHUP
Hillary vs. Jeanine?
JEANINE PIRRO: indefinite prison/psych-ward term for all rapists
(HILLARY CLINTON: 16-year oval-office term for 2 certain rapists)
HILLARY IS NIXON-PLUS part 2
BEWARE THE SYNERGY
Nixonian paranoia and fascistic mindset combine with
clintonian megalomania, ineptitude and, most important, easy betrayal of America
to make hillary clinton deadly dangerous for us all.
-
62
posted on
07/17/2005 2:41:06 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Libloather
63
posted on
07/17/2005 2:47:36 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: kcvl
64
posted on
07/17/2005 2:49:24 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Delta 21; Libloather; All
65
posted on
07/17/2005 2:54:47 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: GSlob; lilylangtree; All
66
posted on
07/17/2005 2:57:36 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: middie; Max Flatow; All
FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!
- WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS
- virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com
by Mia T, 12-30-02
f mutability of meaning was necessary for the survival of the clintons--their survival hinged ultimately on the deconstruction of words and laws--it is more than a little ironic, and a manifestation of the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego, that clinton's monument to himself will necessarily define the clintons with the permanence of great inviolate places of iconic architecture. Whereas a huckster removes meaning from institutions--the wife picked up where the husband left off--an architect encodes meaning in buildings. James S. Polshek, the architect with the dubious distinction of having been commissioned to build the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, believes that a successful architectural solution must necessarily be rooted in relevance. Just as Polshek's buildings have physical layers, so too do they have layers of meaning. His Rose Center for Earth and Space, for example, is informed formally and programmatically by the historic architecture of a designated landmark even as it redefines itself, (often too self-consciously, in my view), in Star-Trekian terms. Reduced to its essence, the building is the nascent universe before the Big Bang, the promise of the undifferentiated cell in its mother's womb. The "bridge to the 21st century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it...
The architect is often the master of the inside joke, witness Robert Venturi's postmodern chairs. Venturi exploited--unabashedly and with abandon--the vocabulary of Las Vegas, its stage-set-as-reality and its roadside culture--bright, clashing, ugly and fake. The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage. The flip side of the encoded meaning of the architect is the terrorist's decoding of it. To bin Laden, the World Trade Center was Jewish capitalism encoded in urban space. If Polshek's vision of clinton's library is a bridge, the inside joke is that, at best, it is a bridge to nowhere. More likely, it is a bridge to the 7th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.
copyright Mia T 2002 |
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posted on
07/17/2005 3:17:33 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: middie
68
posted on
07/17/2005 3:18:33 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: middie
69
posted on
07/17/2005 4:35:42 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
70
posted on
07/17/2005 4:36:07 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Libloather
I guess this vid of his presidential pranks must be popular.
========================================================== "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." --Thomas Jefferson ==========================================================
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posted on
07/17/2005 4:36:08 AM PDT
by
Liz
(You may not be interested in politics doesn't mean politics isn't interested in you. Pericles)
To: Libloather
The everyman appeal that Bill Clinton peddled... Yeah, if you're a rapist, philanderer or a serial liar!
To: Libloather
Was the man who was wearing his 'Gitmo' t-shirt listed as one of the visitors? In his picture, the parking lot looks empty.
73
posted on
07/17/2005 4:47:44 AM PDT
by
mathluv
(Mercy shown to an evil man is cruelty to the innocent.)
To: middie
The wildly unthinking mob on this site...I sure hope you cleaned up after your visit. *Bubba is a carrier, ya know...
74
posted on
07/17/2005 7:11:14 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(I trust Hillary as far as I can throw her...)
To: mathluv; MurryMom; middie
In his picture, the parking lot looks empty.
Derek at the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor in Little Rock: "I did an 8 month tour in Iraq with the Marine infantry in '03, but never felt as endangered as I did getting this photo."
75
posted on
07/17/2005 7:18:20 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(I trust Hillary as far as I can throw her...)
To: Libloather
He should have used the discreet parking in the rear. None of the Baptist could see him that way.
76
posted on
07/17/2005 11:52:36 AM PDT
by
Delta 21
(Its only funny till someone gets hurt, Then its HILARIOUS.)
To: Libloather
I'm gobsmacked.
I didn't think that single-wide could hold that many people...
77
posted on
07/17/2005 12:51:40 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: Libloather
"I'd never even been to Arkansas, but last year we planned to go to Clinton's birth home in Hope, up to Hot Springs
(where Clinton grew up)
From what I have seen..he never really has grown up!
78
posted on
07/17/2005 4:35:43 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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