Posted on 09/27/2006 4:44:54 PM PDT by ricks_place
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. ...
And yet even after his two terms were over ...I cannot remember Reagan ever "defending his legacy" with anything more than a quip and a smile.
Compare and contrast Clinton. Questioned mildly on his anti-terrorism record by Fox's Chris Wallace on Sunday, President Me went absolutely medieval on the newsman, leaning forward threateningly, rapping his fingers against Wallace's notes and proceeding to, well, lie — and in a very angry voice too! ...
Reagan was a man who believed in truth. Not your truth or my truth but "the truth," the one that is out there whether you happen to believe in it or not.
"I never thought of myself as a great man," he said, "just a man committed to great ideas."
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.
Take Clinton's misuse of women...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Carter blew the Iran Hostage crisis and Clintoon blew Samalia and the Cole bombing which only enboldened the Jihadists.
If those two had made the hard choices back then we would not have been were we are today.
I should include Bush the 1st too because we should have smoked everything moving on the highway of death leading back into Iraq from Kuwait.
We need to inform the world not to test our military.
I may be wrong...but I think Jack Murtha has even tried to get patted on the back for telling Bush 41 NOT to go all the way to Baghdad in the Gulf War...sigh
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