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Clinton's Legacy
townhall.com ^ | 3.27.02 | Michael Kelly

Posted on 03/27/2002 8:40:21 AM PST by Mia T

March 27, 2002

Clinton's Legacy

by Michael Kelly

Four new explorations of aspects of the phenomenon that was President Clinton have been published. They are: ``The Natural: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton,'' by Joe Klein, the artist formerly known as Anonymous; ``Starr: A Reassessment,'' by Washington Post editorialist Benjamin Wittes; ``Final Report of the Independent Counsel in Re: Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan Association,'' by Robert W. Ray; and ``Justice Undone: Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House,'' by the House Committee on Government Reform, chaired by Dan Burton.

These reviews are, as they say, mixed. Klein seeks to offer a limited revisionist defense of Clinton as ``the most compelling politician of his generation, although that isn't saying much.'' Wittes, in an important and even brilliant argument, seeks chiefly to explain the behavior of Clinton's chief prosecutor, Kenneth Starr. Ray seeks to finish Starr's work by concluding whether Clinton broke any federal laws and, if so, whether that merited prosecution. The Burton committee seeks to report on Clinton's extraordinary abuse of presidential clemency in the last hours of his administration.

But there is a common theme, which has to do with the quality that, in the end, made Clinton a most unusual president. It is not, Klein's valiant efforts notwithstanding, a positive quality. What comes across as the most important source of Clinton's uniqueness as president is the nearly unbelievable degree of his essential unfitness to be president--his profound immaturity, his pathological selfishness, his cynicism, above all his relentless corruption...

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©2002 Washington Post Writers Group



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; clintondepravity; clintonlegacy; clintonunfitness; mediamalfeasance
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Q ERTY6 PRIMARY COLORS was a rather pointless pastel pastiche... rodham clinton REALITY CHECK BUMP!
 
 

JOE KLEIN UNDERMINES OWN THESIS

Admits to Hannity: "clinton was weak on terrorism"

 

 

by Mia T, Mar. 14, 2002

 

  

Cn Hannity & Colmes last night, Joe Klein undermined the central thesis of his most recent clinton hagiography, "The Natural," that clinton ran "a serious, disciplined, responsible presidency."

Klein exposed the absurdity of his own reasoning by admitting that "clinton was weak on terrorism," (a position, BTW, that is not inconsistent with the more enlightened current leftist dogma).

But only in a deluded liberal's mind could such an utter failure as a president be considered a successful president...

The clintons' failure to confront terrorism -- the clintons' failure even to recognize the critical need to confront terrorism -- indeed, the clintons' aiding and abetting of the terrorists -- must necessarily be the defining moment of the clintons' --uh -- presidency, trumping even the systematic deconstructing of our society as a democracy by clinton corruption. . .

And all of this, BTW, ultimately renders "sleaze, the sequel" unelectable, clinton "infrastructure" notwithstanding.

 

JOE KLEIN PUSHING THE HOPE SCHOLARSHIP AS CLINTON'S CLAIM TO RUSHMORE IS...

Q ERTY6 DEAD-KIDS-DON'T-MATRICULATE DUMB!

the clintons were utter failures and the GOP had better exploit it 4th-Estate Malfeasance (DEATH BY MISREPORT) REALITY CHECK bump!

 

 

 

by Mia T

 

Not Joe Klein's Primary Colors. And not Jack Stanton.

bill clinton is straight out of

Stanley Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

 

clinton is Alex,

one of the few truly amoral characters in either film or literature;

not quite as Kubrick (or Burgess) had imagined him, however,

but rumpled, wrinkled, paunchy, edematous,

stripped of the youth-excuse

after 30 additional, pathetic, recidivistic years

of marauding, stomping, raping, gangbanging, deceiving and destroying.

 

Like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the story of bill clinton

is the story about a society that has lost its capacity for moral choice.

But unlike in the less fabulous and no more ironic fable,

clinton is not mere nascent symbol but nihilistic agent.

 

clinton, like Alex, is the leader of the gang, the "droogies."

Eerily prefigured by the rocking, crooked phallus,

clinton's a conscienceless sadist

who thrills at risk and gratuitous destruction,

whose sexual and non-sexual impotence

is at the root of his obsession with "the old inout."

 

When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison.

When clinton rapes women, girls, his country and God knows what else. . .

and kills? --- check out those fourscore-plus deaths, please!

And don't forget the wag-the-dog, desperately-seeking-a-legacy bombings,

or the cold-blooded Ricky Ray Rector execution---

not clinton but society is imprisoned,

imprisoned in clinton's

besmirched, semen-stained, feckless presidency.

 

A risible and repulsive result;

yet not even the punch line.

 

While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy,

transmuted into a moral robot who becomes nauseated

by the mere thought of sex and violence,

bill clinton and his Thought Police,

in a perverse reverse aversion,

have conditioned society's collective brain

into not mere acquiescence but twisted admiration.

 

In the end,

if clinton's arrogant, ruthless, reckless nature is restored to him,

it seems the joke will be on all of us,

for it will be a victory for infinite victimhood and irresponsibility,

for seduction, for violence, for nihilism, for anarchy.

 

We will have set apart clinton as the hero

by making his victims less human than he;

we will have allowed clinton to carefully estrange us from his victims

so that we can enjoy the rapes and the beatings

as much as clinton himself does.

 

 

1 posted on 03/27/2002 8:40:21 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Gail Wynand; looscannon; Lonesome in Massachussets; river rat; Freedom'sWorthIt; IVote2; Slyfox...
KNOWNOTHING VICTIMS RODHAM/CLINTON REVISITED

Q ERTY2 "There isn't a shred of evidence."

HILLARY, YOU KNOW, KnowNothing Victim Q ERTY4 double bagel,

W I D E B O D Y. low-center-of-gravity Dim Bulb, Congenital Bottom Feeder

Q ERTY3 zipper-hoisted

clinton zipper vitiated by obvious spilth

Humpty Dummies

Q ERTY6 utter failure 4th-Estate Malfeasance (DEATH BY MISREPORT)

rodham-clinton reality-check BUMP!

it won't s-p-i-n
 
Fraudulent Democrat Scheme Fails as Bush Soars
BUSH: NATIONAL SECURITY 1st PRIORITY. . ."I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."
THE CLINTON LEGACY PLACED IN STARK RELIEF
 
The Real Danger of a Presidential Fake:
Post-9/11 Reconsideration of The Placebo President
 
CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme Fails Again
Ollie North Laughs Ann Lewis Off Stage
 
IT IS OBVIOUS
 
Helen Thomas Syndrome: THE SYMPTOMS
 
Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?
 
WHOSE DOG WAS WAGGED?
 
Frankenstein, The Sequel:
'Black Hawk Down' Was Set to Blame Clinton for 9/11
 
hillary clinton, Congenital Bottom Feeder, Cowers Below Network Radar,
Continues to Subsist on Cozy Clintonoid Interviews of Colmes Kind
 
hillary's head revisited:
hillary clinton's brain (such as it is) II
 
Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers
 
 "The Daschle Scheme"
 
THE HILLARY, YOU KNOW, CLINTON TRANSCRIPT:
Analyzed and Annotated
 
JOE KLEIN UNDERMINES OWN THESIS:
"clinton was weak on terrorism"
 
See also:
 
Can the President Think?
 
THE MYTH OF HILLARY'S BRILLIANCE
 
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy

 
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
 
THE OTHER NIXON
 
OFF THE RECORD: AN OLD DOG NEEDS NEW TRICKS
 
The man is an artist: He's not just 'Slick Willie' anymore
 
Hey, what a party!
New Year's at the White House
 
Senator Dim Bulb by Gary Aldrich © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Annotated by Mia T
 

2 posted on 03/27/2002 8:42:52 AM PST by Mia T
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CLINTON'S LEGACY IN MY MIND:

A soiled dress, a frigid wife, and a soggy cigar.

Enough said.

3 posted on 03/27/2002 8:58:23 AM PST by willgetsome
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To: Mia T
IMHO, Clinton wanted to be a Clement Atlee, to move the country toward socialism after the Cold War was won. But that's not the platform on which he campaigned and was not the direction in which the country wanted to go, so Clinton triggered a backlash that placed the Republicans in control of Congress for the first time in 40 years.

Since he failed at policy, Clinton will be remembered mainly for his scandels. Clinton will go down in history as a Warren Harding kind of President, eight years of little accomplishment following a victory by his predecessors in a great crusade, all in a scandel-plagued Presidency. Harding was a handsome man, a good politician - and enjoyed an affair in the White House.

No amount of spin can alter the facts that Clinton was found by a court of law to have lied under oath to a federal judge and a grand jury, for which he was held in contempt of court, disbarred and impeached.

Clinton's place in history was confirmed by two events; his inability to persuade the country to elect his handpicked successor despite unprecedented peace and prosperity, and the attacks on 9-11 which brought home his failure to confront terrorism. Neither Joe Klein nor the Democrat syncophants in today's academia will be able to alter the facts or the ultimate judgment of history.

4 posted on 03/27/2002 9:06:17 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Mia T
The Clinton Legacy is something history will have to scrape off the sole of its boot.
5 posted on 03/27/2002 9:14:26 AM PST by pabianice
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To: Mia T
So I take it you agree with Kelly?

In essence?

6 posted on 03/27/2002 9:17:44 AM PST by alcuin
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To: Mia T
I never cease to be amazed at how Clinton and his gang were able to con so many for so long. If it were not for the media propping this guy up for the sole reason that he was a liberal baby-boomer, I suspect things might have been different. But then again, P.T. Barnum knew something about the number of suckers in this world.
7 posted on 03/27/2002 9:20:43 AM PST by TaxMe
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To: willgetsome
A soiled dress, a frigid wife, a soggy cigar,

and two fallen skyscrapers.

8 posted on 03/27/2002 9:21:04 AM PST by jpl
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To: jpl
2 fallen skyscrapers Q ERTY6

clinton-was-an- utter-failure REALITY-CHECK bump!

 

Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize

 

 

Bill Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is the worst person to be president.*

---GEORGE WILL, Sleaze, the sequel

 

Had George Will written Sleaze, the sequel (the "sequel" is, of course, hillary) after 9-11-01, I suspect that he would have had to forgo the above conceit, as the doubt expressed in the setup phrase was, from that day forward, no longer operational.

Indeed, assessing the clinton presidency an abject failure is not inconsistent with commentary coming from the left, most recently the LA Times: "Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize."

When the clintons left office, I predicted that the country would eventually learn--sadly, the hard way--that this depraved, self-absorbed and inept pair had placed America (and the world) in mortal danger. But I was thinking years, not months.

It is very significant that hillary clinton didn't deny clinton culpability for the terrorism. (Meet the Press, 12-09-01), notwithstanding tired tactics (if you can't pass the buck, spread the blame) and chronic "KnowNothing Victim Clinton" self-exclusion.

If leftist pandering keeps the disenfranchized down in perpetuity, clinton pandering,("it's the economy, stupid"), kept the middle and upper classes wilfully ignorant for eight years.

And ironically, both results (leftist social policy and the clinton economy) are equally illusory, fraudulent. It is becoming increasingly clear that clinton assiduously avoided essential actions that would have negatively impacted the economy--the ultimate source of his continued power--actions like, say, going after the terrorists.

It is critically important that hillary clinton fail in her grasp for power; read Peggy Noonan's little book, 'The Case Against Hillary Clinton' and Barbara Olson's two books; it is critical that the West de-clintonize, but that will be automatic once it is understood that the clintons risked civilization itself in order to gain and retain power.

It shouldn't take books, however, to see that a leader is a dangerous, self-absorbed sicko. People should be able to figure that out for themselves. The electorate must be taught to think, to reason. It must be able to spot spin, especially in this age of the electronic demagogue.

I am not hopeful. As Bertrand Russell noted, "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

Mia T, hillary clinton blames hubby for terrorism

(SHE knew nuttin')

Meet the Press, 12-09-01

 

 

*George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism

Q ERTY3 co-rapist  bump!

9 posted on 03/27/2002 9:39:12 AM PST by Mia T
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To: TaxMe
"But then again, P.T. Barnum knew something about the number of suckers in this world."

Not only PT but also who ever said "You can fool some of the people all of the time and all (voting majority)of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time". Today it's the last of these three but OH has the damage been done.
God bless America.

10 posted on 03/27/2002 9:44:43 AM PST by w_over_w
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To: Mia T
I think I've finally understood what Clinton's "legacy" will be:
To bore us out of our friggin' minds!
11 posted on 03/27/2002 10:10:04 AM PST by Redbob
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To: colorado tanker; miat; rlk
Senator Phil Gramm in the Senate Said..."This will never pass"---broken down bus tour campaign--subliminal flashing of health care cards in public--television...great adminstrative savings of pennies and liabilities of zillions is what crashed this runaway tractor train of chickens in the ditch!

The dnz model-paradigm of liberals for America is the public schools---soviet style federalization--indoctrination of everything...and janet-bone-in-her-nose-reno(carter too)---the trench coach mafia/aclSu(soviet)/naccLCp(liberal-commy) and their love-admiration-sympathy for Castro is proof of what their desire--motivations are---DEVILCRATS!

...Check this writer/author out---

"A predominant hobby, for, lack of anything of substance, has become fabrication of personal problems which people employ to intrigue each other, which become the basis of their empty relationships, and which simultaneously confer dishonest escape from accountability through attaining the status of claiming to be mental outpatients. In truth, many American people have become so soft from being allowed to perpetuate their own dishonesty that they are for practical purposes mental outpatients who can now do naught but huddle together in a giant commune like sick sheep huddling against the harsh weather of need for responsibility and facing a serious real world."

"Too many Americans are leading fraudulent synthetic lives, whether at universities, as entertainment figures, as pampered leftist intellectuals, as government workers, or whatever, wherever they can get away with it. And there are now plenty of places where they can get away with it. They have developed their own fraudulent synthetic social causes and political movements. They have developed fraudulent synthetic conceptions of economics. They have developed their own fraudulent synthetic conception of reality. They have developed their own fraudulent synthetic educational system to support and proselytize/perpetuate it. It is the... system(link)---liberalism is designed to perpetuate."

Basically liberalism is higher taxes---exploitation of the succesful to subsidize the unproductive to expand the size of govt. and shrink--kill off the succesful!

Just like Castro--Cuba!

12 posted on 03/27/2002 10:45:16 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: f.Christian
I saw a pik of Janet Reno at the Academy Awards. At first I thought they were doing a tribute to the Frankenstein movies. I considered the possibility of a "Swamp Thing" retrospective, but ain't nobody gonna confuse Janet with Adrienne Barbeau! So, it must be a new project - The Waco House Rules.
13 posted on 03/27/2002 11:19:48 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker
Did you read the essay by Linda Bowles/newsmax about the shadow(radiation) the clinton megoltith exposed America to?

Your writing--thoughts remind me of her great writing--seeing--expressing yourself skill--ability! Biblical!!

14 posted on 03/27/2002 11:40:32 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: f.Christian
I didn't see that Bowles essay, but I truly thank you for the compliment!
15 posted on 03/27/2002 11:44:59 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Mia T
bump
16 posted on 03/27/2002 11:57:24 AM PST by Bigg Red
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To: Mia T
A small portion of Klintoon's "legacy" can be seen on the front cover of his soon-to-be-published memoirs -- or is that mamoirs?

Clintoon's book will be published by Alfred Knopf Publishing.

“Knopf” is 13th Century German for “ incredibly stupid buyer of other peoples’ garbage.” Knopf is a very old publishing house best known for such early classics as

“How to Enjoy The Inquisition” by Father Torquemada
“You Get My Point?” by Vlad the Impaler
“Guillotine Maintenance and Repair” by Citizen Robespierre

Three of their more recent offerings are “PeeWee Herman’s Movie Guide,” “Gary Condit’s Guide to Picking Up Chicks” and “Compared to Us, Ponzi Was a Freakin’ Choirboy” co-authored by Gary Winnick, Ken Lay and Terry McAuliffe.

All available in a dumpster or landfill near you!

17 posted on 03/27/2002 12:05:21 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: colorado tanker

18 posted on 03/27/2002 12:06:50 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: Dick Bachert
I love it! Janet Reno as the "creature"! LOLROTF!
19 posted on 03/27/2002 12:13:39 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Mia T
As always, Mia T.. bookmarked for thorough reading.

The thing's legacy??... September 11, 2001!!!

20 posted on 03/27/2002 12:21:59 PM PST by catfur
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