BILL CLINTON, MESSIAH. Second Coming

It was almost midnight at the Manhattan sushi hotspot Nobu Fifty Seven, and Bill Clinton was briefing Elvis Costello on the future of New Orleans. "First you've got to flush the lake. Just flush it," Clinton explained. Between the low thrum of club music and the starstruck admirers jockeying for position, it was impossible to hear much more, but one thing was clear: Clinton was really enjoying himself. As several celebrities--including Jeremy Piven of HBO's "Entourage," millionaire playboy Steve Bing, and the dapper Nobu himself--hovered on the margins, Clinton talked on ... and on ... and on. A few minutes earlier, Costello had looked starstruck himself. But now, his enthusiasm seemed to be waning. In fact, as Clinton droned on, I detected a certain glaze forming behind the smartly dressed rocker's famous black-rimmed glasses.

If Clinton noticed, he didn't care. These are the moments he lives for. This was the first evening of the Clinton Global Initiative--a sprawling three-day extravaganza that was equal parts Davos, Renaissance Weekend, charitable telethon, and self-celebration. The stated purpose of the conference was to bring together top thinkers and leaders from public and private life to help devise solutions to intractable world problems. But, most of all, this was the Bill Clinton show--a chance for the ex-president to talk an endless number of hapless (though often rich and famous) souls like Costello blue in the face...."

It looks like you fell into the trap set by the Kosinski. Chauncy Gardiner was not a halfwit. However, the author wanted readers (and the audience) to interpret Chauncy to be a halfwit, just as the other characters in the movie interpreted him to be whatever they wanted him to be.

his astounding grasp of global affairs

--BILL CLINTON, MESSIAH. Second Coming
New Republic | 9/27/05 | Michael Crowley

Politicos and reporters are not rocket scientists . . .
Professions tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects (especially these days) do not generally gravitate towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre, power-obsessed types with poor self-images do.
Thus, clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form with substance, smoothness with coherence, data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic degeneracy with creativity.
Mia T
Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy

WHY DID BILL CLINTON IGNORE TERRORISM?
Was it simply the constraints of his liberal mindset, or was it something even more threatening to our national security?

BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)
THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE

Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power
REASON 1: SHE HIRED JAMIE GORELICK

sandy berger haberdashery feint
(the specs, not the pants or the socks)

THE LEFT'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans

pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
WHY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA

The Left's Fatally Flawed "Animal Farm" Mentality
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)

PRESIDENTIAL FAILURE, 9/11 + KATRINA

None of these people had the balls to ask the impeached one how much money he and uber-dike have contributed to their latest scheme. What about all his Marc Rich/Chicom money? What about the 100k plus he receives for all those boring speeches he show up late for?

People want to tell him, 'Do you remember the f---ing things [the Bushies] said about you when you left office? Stealing furniture and trashing the place?'" one Clintonite whispered to me.

Well now, isn't that just a little bass ackwards?

Clinton should not forgive Bush because Clinton et al trashed the White House? Bleccch.

p.s. 'Restless Legacy Syndrome'- priceless!

Chauncy Gardiner was not a halfwit.

OK fine, but you don't say who he was. Was he a conman? Kosinski had been accused (by the Village Voice reporters sicced on him by the Polish Communist Secret Service unhappy about Kosinski's activities on behalf of imprisoned writers and intellectuals) of having plagiarized a pre-war Polish pulp novel, about a conman rising to power in a somewhat similar fashion. Who who was Chauncey according to Vision Thing? He wasn't a retarded, simple minded individual? And what trap? (And Kosinski was a hustler and a bit of a conman himself.)

In any event, Bubba is a conman reciting conventional liberal wisdom, simple minded platitudes and meaningless factoids such as "topsoil, in some places as deep as 22 feet" (which is what brought to mind Being There.)

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