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"Clinton was not only disengaged from the responsibilities of the presidency, he was, and is, disengaged from himself."

Your entire analysis is wonderful.

Though Clinton was disengaged from everything but carnal lust, his ambitious, power hungry wife was not. It was the rapacious Mrs. Clinton who ran the WH, who - through FBI files - ran government and foreign policy decisions.

Mrs. Clinton declared herself co-president; Mr. clinton did not refute this.

It was Mrs. Clinton who tried to depose Gore's official status with attempts to move his WH office.

Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton was dangerous to our nation's security and societal norms then and she remains dangerous, no matter political machinations to the "center." She has no center.

Check out a thread on today's FR, "Democratic Insider: Hillary 'Unfit' for Presidency" posted by Leftism is Mentally Deranged.

I'm not certain what her center is. Revenge for being too eager to win the approval of the students she perceived as being "classy" when she arrived at Wellesley, who responded with amused contempt?

I think we underestimate the influence of what someone called, "America's native derangement about class and caste." For some, rejection, real or imagined, becomes the driving force of their ambition.

Some in the media describe H.C.'s background as priveleged, which it was not in the sense that they mean, and the suburb in which she grew up as exclusive, which it was not.

BBL, do you remember the trip HC made to, I think, Morrocco? She took Chelsea with her. There were very few pictures of this trip in print or on tv, and we Americans were not allowed by the media moguls to see the endless tapes of HC and Chelsea enjoying the hospitality of the rich pashas. They played these tapes over and over in Europe with breathless voice-overs from swooning news readers..."Comme une reine..." and so on.

And there she was, at a feast where the servants, with downcast eyes knelt in front of her and the pashas offering trays of food, and on her face a bland acceptance that this bowing and scraping was her due. And if anyone saw Nita Lowey bowing over and over to HC, and tossing flowers at her, when the New York Dems told Lowey, a loyal Dem congrsswoman for 19 years, that HC would replace her in the Senate race, "then, you know what I'm talkin' about."

Who said, "An idealist is a social climber with a bomb in his pocket"?

Thanks for posting.