Posted on 09/26/2006 7:20:53 AM PDT by katieanna
The ex-president's tirade on Fox News reveals a politician insisting on a legacy he doesn't deserve. THERE'S NO LIMIT to what a man can do," President Reagan used to say, " … if he doesn't care who gets the credit." Former President Clinton's motto seems to be a little different: "There's no limit to how much credit a man can get, if he doesn't care what he's actually done." Reagan came to office after the Jimmy Carter catastrophe. He pulled the American economy out of a graveyard spin, restored the country's military and its confidence and helped bring one of the most oppressive empires on Earth to the brink of collapse. But in those days, my children, there was no Internet, no Fox News, no Rush Limbaugh — the media was almost all Colmes and precious little Hannity — and if you got your news from the New York Times, say, or CBS, you would've thought the country was being run by a miserly, warmongering idiot instead of the greatest president of the century's second half.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
"I never thought of myself as a great man," he said, "just a man committed to great ideas." Those ideas — our founders' ideas — were great because they recognized a central truth: the good of individual liberty. And they guaranteed human beings those rights endowed in them by the "big truth" — their creator.
Clinton, on the other hand, is a narcissist who finds it difficult to grasp in any real sense that there is a place where his "inner man" ends and the rest of the world begins. Clinton's stock phrase, "I feel your pain," is really the insistence of a man who does not truly feel anyone else's pain, does not truly understand that there are other inner realities as urgent as his own.
That is becuase Ron had one.
Right! And Clinton spends so much of his time BLAMING others.
I can't believe this guy was ever President.
"no Rush Limbaugh "
Ummm. Yes there was.
I started listening to Rush in 1987 and I think his show started a few years before that.
I think he started his syndication in 1987.
The US axis of evil: LBJ, Carter, Clinton
What is this article doing in the LA Times? Did they get tired of lower circulation, and are now chasing the conservative dollar?
I remember him flipping out twice in public:
(1) When he was accused by a heckler of selling out his ultralefty campaign promises to Democrats by pursuing things like welfare reform. He lost it because he knew he made fake promises and this heckler cut him deep on it.
(2) When he gave the famous speech: "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." His voice was trembling with rage, because he knew he'd been caught there too.
And now Chris Wallace (no relation to the late lamented Biggie Smalls) has caught him again.
"I think he started his syndication in 1987."
But wasn't he on the air in San Fran in the early 80's?
August 1988
What's shocking is that this is coming from the L.A. Times...
They are the NY Times of the Left Coast...
Wow...
Clinton may have helped to more clearly define his 'legacy' with this childish and finger-wagging rant than he realizes...
The challenge is to get the un-thinking 43% among us to realize what a buffoon he was...
Hard to decide which of the two is the worst president in my lifetime.....Carter or Clinton. Would not be surprised if history gives the nod to that jackass Carter.
Wasn't that the time he was walking down a rope line, and actually went back to confront the guy? I remember that one, Clinton almost went after they guy physically, reaching over the line and poking at him, etc. It was pretty bizzare.
Yes, but Reagan got elected twice and major accomplishments were all before Rush came on the air.
I also started listening to Rush in 1987. I think he broadcast from Sacramento before that.
"I think he broadcast from Sacramento before that."
Yes. You're right. Got my cities mixed up.
Thanks.
Correct. He completely lost it.
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