BILL CLINTON, MESSIAH. Second Coming

Rent out the video Being There, or read Kosinski's book (they're both excellent!) We've got us a real live Chauncey Gardiner - a halfwit on a pedestal.

41 posted on 09/27/2005 4:35:57 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")

To: Revolting cat!

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.

42 posted on 09/27/2005 4:41:59 PM PDT by Vision Thing

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

43 posted on 09/27/2005 4:43:01 PM PDT by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))

A has been lecturing other has beens about their own irrelevance.

44 posted on 09/27/2005 6:20:16 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't get stuck on stupid now, reporters)

The title is... well suggestive given his proclivity with his... nature.

45 posted on 09/27/2005 6:23:35 PM PDT by Cobra64

I know what ya mean... I occasionally try to converse with a minority leftist at work (not black but Asian), the guy sometime revealed something remarkable how the fringe really worships Krintong!!!

46 posted on 09/27/2005 7:57:01 PM PDT by Toidylop

Has Clinton been reported walking on water yet!!! Close he floats just like a sea biscut pos

47 posted on 09/27/2005 7:59:57 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)

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?

48 posted on 09/27/2005 8:11:16 PM PDT by Brofholdonow

If Klintoon is the messiah, better to rule in hell...

49 posted on 09/27/2005 8:14:38 PM PDT by evolved_rage (Democrats want Hell on Earth too....)

To: abu afak; Lijahsbubbe; aculeus

50 posted on 09/27/2005 8:24:45 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal (As it was in the days of NO...)

To: backhoe; Thinkin' Gal

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!

51 posted on 09/27/2005 8:52:11 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe (To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world)

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

52 posted on 09/28/2005 12:13:23 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

To: Vision Thing

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.)

53 posted on 09/28/2005 8:27:10 AM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")

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