Posted on 03/27/2002 8:40:21 AM PST by Mia T
March 27, 2002
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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n 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).
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.
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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! |
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A soiled dress, a frigid wife, and a soggy cigar.
Enough said.
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.
In essence?
and two fallen skyscrapers.
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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. " *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
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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.
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!
Your writing--thoughts remind me of her great writing--seeing--expressing yourself skill--ability! Biblical!!
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 Hermans Movie Guide, Gary Condits 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!
The thing's legacy??... September 11, 2001!!!
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