CLINTON'S LEGACY IN MY MIND:
A soiled dress, a frigid wife, and a soggy cigar.
Enough said.
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.
Kelly gets it right. Those among us who voted for this empty suit, this shyster and slacker, this piece of moral detritus, should be utterly ashamed. I worry, MiaT, for my kids and grandkids in an America that would vote for this "man".
