- I suspect that, to spite us all,
- Arthur Schlesinger will probably live to 120
- just so he can write
- the definitive clinton hagiography.
--------Mia T, Musings: Senatorial Courtesy Perverted
- What harm can clinton do? He has less than two years left.
--Senator Dale Bumpers
- A C-SPAN survey of 58 U.S. historians has concluded that Bill Clinton is the president with the lowest 'moral authority' -- beating out Richard Nixon for last place, Monday's NEW YORK TIMES is set report.
----C-SPAN PRESIDENTS POLL: CLINTON JUDGED LOWEST IN MORALS
- I think history will view this much differently.
-----the First Psychopath, himself
- ...[bill clinton], a man who will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents.
-----Al Gore at clinton's post-impeachment rally
clinton's ranking will likely get worse over time. Economic issues fade in importance over time. Moral issues presist and grow. (paraphrase)
------Douglas Brinkley, history professor,
on Washington Journal discussing C-SPAN poll
- It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
-----Nietzsche
- History Lesson
- by Mia T
- Someone--was it Maupassant?--
- once called history "that excitable and lying old lady."
- The same can be said of historians.
- Surely it can be said of Doris Kearns Goodwin,
- the archetypical pharisaical historian,
- not-so-latently clintonoid,
- Lieberman-Paradigmatic
- (i.e., clinton is an unfit president;
- therefore clinton must remain president),
- intellectually dishonest,
- (habitually doing what the Arthur Schlesingers of this world do:
- making history into the proof of their theories).
- The Forbids 400's argument is shamelessly spurious.
- They get all unhinged over the impeachment of clinton,
- claiming that it will
- "leave the presidency permanently disfigured and diminished,
- at the mercy as never before of the caprices of any Congress."
- Yet they dismiss the real and present--and future!!--danger
- to the presidency and the country
- of not impeaching and removing
- this admittedly unfit, (Goodwin)
- "documentably dysfunctional," (NYT)
- presidency-diminishing, (Goodwin)
- power-abusing,
- psychopathic thug.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin and those 400 other
- hog-and-bow-tied-save-clinton,
- retrograde-obsessing historiographers
- are a supercilious, power-hungry,
- egomaniacal lot in their own right.
- For them, clinton validates
- what Ogden Nash merely hypothesized:
- Any buffoon can make history,
- but only a great man can write it.
