Clinton: Presidents' private lives are fair game to a point

Boston.com ^ | 5-28-03 | Martin Finucane

[RLK]

I wish that more people would STRONGLY emphasize the point that Clinton shows definite signs of a number of very serious psychiatric disorders instead of letting him strut around like an uncontested god for hundreds of thousands of dollars a night. His continuing increase in craziness in attempts to justify his craziness seems to have no negative effect.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

''It's a good thing we've got the term limits or you'd have had to throw me out,'' he said.

Well, we tried to throw you out. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

[RLK]

Hillary has been sounding shrill and borderline nuts.

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Hell yes! For 35 years.

[Miss Marple]

We all KNOW he's nuts. The democrats and the media refuse to see it, however. It's going to take a lot worse stuff from him before they are willing to admit they propped up a nut case for 8 years.

[elephantlips]

Dr. John Witherspoon, the first president of Princeton University and a signer of the Declaration of Independence said it best: "What a man is in private is what he is in public." Character counts!

[Roscoe Karns]

''The thing that I think is difficult to convey is how everything happens at once,'' he said. ''And how you're supposed to keep sort of centered in an almost Zen-like state, no matter what the incoming fire is, so that you can do first every day for the eight years ... what seems best for the country and the future of the world.

Sorry, Zen master(or is that sink master?), but for 8 years you did "first every day" what seemed best for your "political viability" not the country. Your two terms as class president were nothing more than 8 years of scandal, spin and damage control.

''For a couple of months,'' he quipped, ''I was disoriented when I walked in a room and they didn't play a song anymore.

That wasn't a "quip". A quip is a witty or funny response made on the spur of the moment. Since the rapist left office he has been quoted as saying this almost every day.

[Paleo Conservative]

What concerns me is that basis of the Clinton arguments are are uncontested by nearly everyone, including our present president.

I think President Bush has more important thinks to do nowadays than to take a position on a hypothetical amendment that will never see the light of day. It's better for Clinton to make himself look foolish demonstrating exactly why we have a 22nd amendment.

I'm not concerned. No proposed consititional amendment repealing the 22n amendment will even make it out of committee much less get a 2/3rds vote on on the floor of either the House or Senate. Notice how after the presidential election of 2000 talk of repealing the Electoral College died out rather soon before any committee even had hearings on the subject? Remember also, that a large number of senators look in the mirror each morning and think they see the next president of the United States. If the 22nd amendment were repealed their liklihood of every getting to be president decreases even more.

If Gore's showing in the 2000 elections were a proxy for a Clinton third term, Clinton is out of luck to repeal the 22nd amendment. Only 20 states went to Gore, while it takes 38 states to ratify an amendment. Even if every the legislature of every state that voted for Gore ratified, 60% of the states that voted against Gore would also have to ratify (18 out of 30). The founding fathers were very wise to divide power. I really am not going to lose any sleep over this.

[Bonaparte]

"What an jerk."

And being interviewed by another one, Beschloss, the court historian of CNN and PBS who agrees with the Hildabeast's call for abolishing the electoral college and who claims he had "no preference" for either candidate in the 2000 presidential race. Uh huh.