[Hemingway's Ghost]

Ladies and gents, I do believe it's snowing in the lower reaches of Dante's Inferno.

A sweepingly negative column about Bill Clinton on the editorial pages of the Boston Globe?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

A WTF? bump.

[anniegetyourgun]

It is pretty amazing, HG. However, I couldn't help but notice the obligatory "he was distracted by those mean Republicans" statement imbedded herein. One day we may actually see the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - but probably not from the Globe!

[Mr. Bird]

Certainly the ammoniac partisan atmosphere created by then Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress contributed.

Gratuitous and indefensible. No editor should let a line like that be slipped in without some sort of expansion on the thought. Is this author writing any columns about the "ammoniac partisan atmosphere" currently being created by Daschle and Co.?

[anniegetyourgun]

Ping!

[TomGuy]

Bill C to his Harlem conclave: "Spin it faster, guys! They're still not buying it. Spin it fast, prove Einstein right! If we spin it fast enough, we can go back in time...or at least muddle the history books! I need a legacy, so spin, dammit, spin!"

[cardinal4]

Are you sure this isnt the Boston Herald?LOL!Satan has a jacket on!Whats next?A Hillary article critical of her in the NY times???

[dead]

There's blame aplenty for the lost period and the lost focus.

Spare me. The blame lies with Clinton, and those who voted against removing him from office for his proven felonies.

[Billthedrill]

I didn't believe it was the Globe at first...then I took a look at the context. All this tragedy and the writer's point of view centers around how it affects B.J. Billy's "legacy." Yep. It's the Globe all right.

[OldFriend]

Best part of this is that Morris, who hate's Stepphie with a passion, uses Stepphies own words against him. But then Stepphie can always say he lied about himself in his own book.........

Morris is determined to destroy clinton and everyone around him..........makes one wonder what is going on and whether Morris is going to need the witness protection program before too long.

[lonestar]

But in retrospect, Bill Clinton did face a dangerous foreign adversary. He was president when Al Qaeda went global and started to make the United States the target of its terrorism.

That was one of the principal international challenges of the last decade - and it's far more our misfortune than his that Bill Clinton didn't do more to meet it.

Rememberit!--and repeat it over and over every day .

The Monica thing consumed so much of his time because of the lying. If the jerk had just told the truth...

But the truth isn't in Bill Clinton.

[OldFriend]

BTTT

[Grig]

One of Clinton's problems, of course, was that by the time of the embassy bombings, the Monica Lewinsky scandal was consuming the administration.

It was his own stinking fault that he was burried in scandle, and his own stinking fault for choosing to fight for his personal power (at the expense of the nation) instead of resigning like he should have done.

[doug from upland]

Perhaps Lehigh needs a bound copy of the DSL to get up to speed?

[BOBTHENAILER]

While all the Clinton press slaves keep reiterating the "problems" of being "distracted" by the Lewinsky scandal, lets never forget his:

AMAZING ABILITY TO COMPARTMENTALIZE HIS WORK FOR "the people". Where is all the talk about that NOW!!!!!!!!!

[SerpentDove]

>> Certainly the ammoniac partisan atmosphere created by then Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Republican Congress contributed. <<

Yeah, let's blame those who hold the President of the United States accountable for committing felonies. The same felonies that land "ordinary" people in prison.

This kind of defense is so asinine.

[fightu4it]

I don't think the man could think past the end of his di.....

Well, you know what I was going to say.

[GOPJ]

The questions that will define the Clinton years are being formed. Is it really "why hadn't we done more", rather than "why didn't we do anything?" A few of the many questions to come:

How could Osama bin Laden and his band of murderous zealots have caught this nation so off guard? And, given bin Laden's past history of attacks against the United States, why hadn't we done more to destroy Al Qaeda?

[GOPJ]

The questions that will define the Clinton years are being formed. Is it really "why hadn't we done more", rather than "why didn't we do anything?" A few of the many questions to come:

How could Osama bin Laden and his band of murderous zealots have caught this nation so off guard? And, given bin Laden's past history of attacks against the United States, why hadn't we done more to destroy Al Qaeda?

[alloysteel]

The "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" was not merely asleep to the dangers of the rising Muslim militancy during his watch, he made overtures to encourage their growth, and pulled his punches seriously those few times he did half-heartedly make some kind of response. No surprise that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein thought the regime in the White House during those years was weak and dilatory, because in only one respect did the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" ever show much focused energy about anything, and that was in getting personal selfish satisfaction. Hillary must have been greatly disappointed in his behavior from time to time.

[Tymesup]

"One of Clinton's problems, of course, was that by the time of the embassy bombings, the Monica Lewinsky scandal was consuming the administration. "

Media spin - it wasn't the Monica Lewinsky scandal - it was Paula Jones being denied her rights as a citizen.