I say give that kid a cigar.
Posted on 08/14/2008 11:03:30 AM PDT by NCDragon
There is obviously no way to quantify this, but I regard Bill Clinton as the most thoroughly humiliated person in all of human history. Who else even comes close?
On Sunday, it will be 10 years since that astonishing day a sitting president gave a nationally televised address in which he admitted that, yes, he'd had a sexual relationship with a young intern, and that all his previous statements to the contrary — to his family, to the media, to the nation — were baldfaced lies.
You gazed upon that astonishing spectacle, gazed upon the utter debasement of the highest public official in the land, and you said that here was an object lesson to which other public figures were surely paying close attention and from which they were surely drawing the obvious lessons: Keep it in your pants, boys; in an era where media are 24/7, 365, and that old gentleman's agreement you once had with them to keep private peccadilloes private has long since vanished, there is no woman fetching enough, no sex amazing enough, to justify such complete and utter humiliation.
This belief was, of course, naive.
We soon learned that Jesse Jackson wasn't paying attention. Nor was former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Or Sen. Larry Craig. Or Motown Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Last week, another name was added to the ranks of the obviously inattentive: the golden boy himself, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
"Moreover, what does that delusion say about your judgment? Does it not suggest a recklessness, an arrogance, a staggering self-centeredness appalling in one who purports to be a leader? Does it not suggest that you can project only to the limits of your own immediate gratification and to hell with everyone else?"
BINGO! Dead on!
You can’t be humiliated if you have no shame.
Edwards should learn from the master: act like you did nothing wrong and have nothing to apologize for and soon the crowd will go along with you.
When Pitts writes about something other than race, which is rarely, he actually puts out some really good columns.
They have to be a special, non-human, animal to
pull this behavior off like it is a bothersome fly, you
swat it away when it is near you, aka-Clinton. No shame,
hell no..they become so engrossed in their own ego,
they go about, ignoring anyone and anything, that is
not adoring their devious act as “everybody does it”
and then they revert to a democratic mode..-lie like hell!!
on and on and on....JK
I say give that kid a cigar.
...don't be so eager to forget the rapist and replace him with a lightweight. Clinton's legacy (the one were familiar with)and the future possibilities and angling Hillary and he are in line for,judgeship's,power trips of all kinds, we'll have to deal with for years to come.
You can't humiliate those without shame.
That goes for John Edwards, Bill Clinton, and too many others in contemporary politics.
We need to ask ourselves why we continue to elect people who are incapable of showing remorse. People make mistakes and have lapses in judgment - it happens.
But decent people are truly sorry. I rarely see anything other than excuses and weasel-worded half-apologies when today's elected officials are caught.
Bubba continues on with his risky behaviour and the msm helps out by keeping his secrets for him.
Nothing much has changed when it comes to the letter ‘D’
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