Posted on 01/11/2002 8:57:38 AM PST by vannrox
The Clintons have surfed this psychotic cultural and generational wave into the White House.
The attempt has been made to understand Bill and Hillary Clinton, particularly Bill, in terms of classical neurosis from abusive childhoods. But much of what is seen in the Clinton generation has made that model obsolete, although many from that generation, including psychiatrists and psychologists, desperately hold on to it to relieve themselves of any personal responsibility.
The truth is, Bill and Hillary Clinton have not suffered a bit of inconvenience for nearly 40 years¾including, for Bill, the inconvenience of military service. By his freshman year in high school Bill found he could manipulate people with showy glibness and deception, and nobody would call him on it. A good memory for acting lines would carry him through easy courses in the most prestigious schools in the country without effort or necessity to learn seriously. From there, he went almost immediately to being the boy governor of a state, and on to the presidency. It was all done with a little empty talk on a level that could be found on any high school debate team.
Hillary has led a similar life of ease and is now being pushed to take a senate seat and run for the presidency in 2004 on a platform of angrily confronting a vast right-wing conspiracy¾ which essentially consists of making accusatory and sarcastic remarks at you and me through a TV screen to the delight of angry women, spoiled angry leftists, and angry minorities. It isn't a bad life for an untalented spoiled brat who, without the world of TV and alienated politics, would be lucky to hold a job as a waitress in a truck stop.
The problem with the both Clintons is that they were long ago licensed to think and act at primitive, immature, and irrational levels of functioning. Much of this was a self-conferred licensing by a generation which has continued, and which has been the root of most of the political, economic, and social problems in this country.
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Robert L. Kocher is the author of "The American Mind in Denial." He is an engineer working in the area of solid-state physics, and has done graduate study in clinical psychology. His email address is steiner@access.mountain.net.
from The Laissez Faire City Times, Vol 3, No 7, Feb. 15, 1999
382 posted on 1/16/02 3:21 PM Pacific by A.J.Armitage
Do you even know the difference between a libertarian=anarchist---a liberal socialist and Republican Conservative?
A coherent thought won't resonate with a foggy empty or rubbish filled head!
An example. I have no idea what you're trying to ask me. Are you asking if I know the difference between a libertarian and an anarchist, or between liberals socialists and Republican Conservatives? Or are you saying, by "libertarian=anarchist" that libertarianism and anarchy are the same thing? Or are you talking about Star Trek? Who knows?
A coherent thought won't resonate with a foggy empty or rubbish filled head!
Now, here you finally write a normal English sentence.
For the record, I have no idea if your thoughts are coherent or not. I can't tell what they are. No, my head is not foggy, empty, or filled with rubbish. The fault, frankly, is yours. You're the one who is so unable to discipline his writting style (or so high) that most of his sentences have, according to the rules of the English language, no meaning at all. They can't be parsed, because they don't follow any kind of coherent pattern.
364 posted on 1/14/02 1:41 PM Pacific by f.Christian
Seems to me that you like immoral libertine policies just so long as they are REPUBLICAN.
Did you ever think that maybe a party's name does NOT mean crap anymore?
Principles must not mean much either as you attack those who do care about principles.
Shame on you,
CATO
Do you see any glowing inconsistencies with this statement?
I complain, yet still back them without question?
You do attack libertarians and yet it is those GD REPOs that are fulfilling all the BAD things you say libertarians are guilty of.
Log Cabin REPOs get a place at the table of respectability because of GWB.
Complain about that!
CATO
Some people need to understand the difference between ideology and party affiliation.
Obviously, you don't!
Obviously, you don't!
LOL!!!!
pot. kettle. black
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