Posted on 02/02/2008 9:20:23 PM PST by jdm
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LEGACY? What legacy?
There was general amazement when (the now-muzzled) Bill Clinton did his red-faced, attack-dog, race-baiting performance in South Carolina.
Friends, Democrats and longtime media sycophants were variously perplexed, repulsed, enraged, mystified and shocked that this beloved ex-President would so jeopardize his legacy by stooping so low.
What they don't understand is that for Clinton, there is no legacy.
What he was doing on the low road from Iowa to South Carolina was fighting for a legacy -- a legacy that he knows history has denied him and that he has but one chance to redeem.
Clinton is a narcissist but also smart and analytic enough to distinguish adulation from achievement. Among Democrats, he is popular for twice giving them the White House, something no Democrat has done since FDR. And the bouquets he receives abroad are simply signs of the respect routinely given ex-Presidents, though Clinton earns an extra dollop of fawning, with the accompanying fringe benefits, because he is (a) charming and (b) not George W. Bush.
But Clinton knows this is all written on sand. It is the stuff of celebrity. What gnaws at him is the verdict of history. What clearly enraged him more than anything this primary season was Barack Obama's statement that "Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that . . . Bill Clinton did not." The Clintons tried to use this against Obama by charging him with harboring secret Republican sympathies. It was a stupid charge that elicited only scorn. And not just because Obama is no Reaganite, but because Obama's assessment is so obviously true: Reagan was consequential.
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Clinton earns an extra dollop of fawning, with the accompanying fringe benefits, because he is (a) charming and (b) not George W. Bush.
Charming? Hardly. He is a corrupt, and calculating narcis-sistic schemer.
No, it is because he is willing to continually bash the United States at every opportunity. This plays big in an envious world.
See fellow legacy-less perennial loser, Jimmy Carter.
Legacy? Sure, there’s a legacy. Bill Clinton is the only draft dodger and rapist elected President of the US. And he is the only elected US President to ever be impeached. Let us never forget his legacy.
History will not be kind - his flaws will be known and his "charm" won't translate.
He did raise the meaning of the word "tawdry" to new heights.
Hey, your web site is down!
LEGACY
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Clinton's presidency was inconsequential because HE chose to make it so. Reagan's presidency could have been inconsequential. He inherited a nation with gas lines and 21% interest rates. The US was being embarrassed by a nutball Islamic dictator, and the Soviet Union was overthrowing small countries around the globe. He could have easily puttered around and fussed with economic policies that made little difference. He could have ignored the Soviet aggression and played it safe. He could have stuck his finger in the wind twice a day and done what the polls suggested. He didn't.
Ronald Reagan stood in Berlin and said, "Mr. President, tear down this wall."
Bill Clinton looked at the bombing of the Murrah Building and blamed talk radio.
Ronald Reagan dared to paint with bold strokes and build a legacy. Bill Clinton chose to be inconsequential because doing something bold involves risk.
Bill Clinton legacy is one paragraph. "Bill Clinton was the only elected President to be impeached because he lied under oath and to the Nation about having sex in the White House with a 22 years old intern called Monica Lewinski. Under his watch and because his cowardly behavior to deal with constant attacks by islamic terrorism we had 9/11/2001."
The man is the most shameless person in the world, you spit on his face and he tells you it is raining. A low life impeached President who walks around thinking he is George Washington.
Yes he does have a legacy ... only elected President ever impeached, and a big change to the Manhattan skyline.
Agree. His most obvious legacy is that millions of young schoolchildren now know what the term ‘oral sex’ means. And they don’t really think it is actually sex of any kind. He has been an international embarrassment for years. He should go away and take his shrew with him. Legacy? He don’t have no other stinkin’ legacy!
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NEVER FORGET
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The HILL & BILL Show’s true permanent LEGACY...
...will always be in their actively supporting Communist North Vietnam’s terrorist takeover of a then Free South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Slamming down hard upon a once Free South Vietnamese people...
...a most horrid:
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..”JOURNEY from the FALL”..
http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
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With the HILL & BILL Show’s new push to takeover our precious Oval Office one last time, with our own Freedom directly at stake this time around in a new time of war...
...WHAT PRICE WE..?
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NEVER FORGET
Bill Clinton’s legacy is a white stain on a blue dress.
Arrrrgh ... four seconds. Darn that “Preview”!
The truth must be repeated again and again and again. So you did good.
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