Clinton, campaigns, and contradictions (Puke Level Alpha)

Boston Globe ^ | 5-30-03 | Scot Lehigh

[Lance Romance]

ILLIAM JEFFERSON Clinton came to the Kennedy Library on Wednesday, and by the time he left, the clouds of nostalgia were thick enough to rival the thunderheads piled up over Boston Harbor.

Ted Kennedy was so swept away by it that, praising the White House years of the president who declared the era of big government over, the man who has long symbolized same found tears trickling down his face.

[Lance Romance]

Shouldn't the public person, in deciding how to act privately, consider what effect the disclosure of his private behavior might have on the discharge of high public duties he has aspired to almost his entire life? That question, sadly, went unasked, but it's one Clinton needs to reflect on if he hopes to make the memoir he is penning more than an exercise in self-justification.

What? No hard hitting questions at the Kennedy School. I'm shocked, shocked I say.

And, second, when will the Democrats see his like again? That is, produce a candidate as adept at framing a message and arguing a point? (Certainly Clinton's cogent critique of George Bush's ill-considered tax policy is more persuasive than anything this columnist has yet heard from the candidates this time around.

ARrrrrgh.

[goldstategop]

They really miss Beezelbubba. He has a rogue charm and suddenly his sexual escapades and looting the federal treasury in his last days in office no longer to seem to matter. The Democrats are still spellbound by Clinton.

[sauropod]

"''You'd still be there today, Mr. President, if our Republican friends in Congress hadn't been so mad at Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940s that they amended the Constitution to limit presidents to two terms,'' Kennedy said."

Sniff, sniff...

[The_Victor]

''You'd still be there today, Mr. President, if our Republican friends in Congress hadn't been so mad at Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940s that they amended the Constitution to limit presidents to two terms,'' Kennedy said.

Reality check for Teddy...

If Republicans hadn't amended the constitution to limit the president to two terms, Clintoon would never have been able to defeat Reagan.

[goldstategop]

Good thing Ted's going on a trip down memory lane. Which is exactly why the 22nd Amendment will repealed on a cold day in hell.

[sauropod]

"How could a man so smart, and possessed of so many talents, have gambled his presidency by having an affair with a Gen X flibbertigibbet?"

OMG, I've actually seen THE WORD used in a sentence!

[sauropod]

"How could a man so smart, and possessed of so many talents, have gambled his presidency by having an affair with a Gen X flibbertigibbet?"

OMG, I've actually seen THE WORD used in a sentence!

[kattracks]

Sniff, sniff...

what's that I smell?

[LADY J]

"How could a man so smart, and possessed of so many talents, have gambled his presidency by having an affair with a Gen X flibbertigibbet?"

CLUE ------------->Because he is NOT so smart nor is he possessed of so many talents!

His plus is that he has the instincts of a used car salesmen and stupid people fall for his line.

[hellinahandcart]

Good golly, Miss Molly!

This entire article is an appetite suppressant. I should print it out and tape it to my refrigerator.

[BigLittle]

''You'd still be there today, Mr. President, if our Republican friends in Congress hadn't been so mad at Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940s that they amended the Constitution to limit presidents to two terms,'' Kennedy said.

Were that the case, chances are the Slick Willie would never had been elected, since The Great Communicator would still have been in office.

[hellinahandcart]

"How could a man so smart, and possessed of so many talents, have gambled his presidency by having an affair with a Gen X flibbertigibbet?"

I keep coming back to Ayn Rand (even when I don't want to, these idiots absolutely force me to go there):

CONTRADICTIONS DON'T EXIST. CHECK YOUR PREMISES.

[milan]

Remeber this from the eighties; GAG ME!?

That is presisely how I feel.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Oh, this article is from the Globe, did you expect anything less?

[thegreatbeast]

"Now, that's very likely true...", is Lehigh's response to Teddy's assertion that WJC would still be in the White House today were it not for those wascally wepublicans. Could that be true? That thought is abhorrent.

[TC Rider]

How about Barf Level Puce?

[LisaFab]

Reality check for Teddy... If Republicans hadn't amended the constitution to limit the president to two terms, Clintoon would never have been able to defeat Reagan.

We have a winner!

[hellinahandcart]

"''You'd still be there today, Mr. President, if our Republican friends in Congress hadn't been so mad at Franklin Roosevelt in the 1940s that they amended the Constitution to limit presidents to two terms,'' Kennedy said."

Hmpf. I thought it was the Democrats who feared that Eisenhower might actually pull a Roosevelt.

[DeFault User]

"How could a man so smart, and possessed of so many talents, have gambled his presidency by having an affair with a Gen X flibbertigibbet.

It should read: "How could a flibbertigibbet have become president in the first place?"

[LisaFab]

And if the country loved the i42 so much, why didn't they elect his successor as they did Reagan's?