Had George Will written Sleaze, the sequel (the "sequel" is, of course, hillary) after 9-11-01, I suspect that he would have had to forgo the above conceit, as the doubt expressed in the setup phrase was, from that day forward, no longer operational. Indeed, assessing the clinton presidency an abject failure is not inconsistent with commentary coming from the left, most recently the LA Times: "Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize." When the clintons left office, I predicted that the country would eventually learn--sadly, the hard way--that this depraved, self-absorbed and inept pair had placed America (and the world) in mortal danger. But I was thinking years, not months. It is very significant that hillary clinton didn't deny clinton culpability for the terrorism. (Meet the Press, 12-09-01), notwithstanding tired tactics (if you can't pass the buck, spread the blame) and chronic "KnowNothing Victim Clinton" self-exclusion. If leftist pandering keeps the disenfranchized down in perpetuity, clinton pandering,("it's the economy, stupid"), kept the middle and upper classes wilfully ignorant for eight years. And ironically, both results (leftist social policy and the clinton economy) are equally illusory, fraudulent. It is becoming increasingly clear that clinton assiduously avoided essential actions that would have negatively impacted the economy--the ultimate source of his continued power--actions like, say, going after the terrorists. It is critically important that hillary clinton fail in her grasp for power; read Peggy Noonan's little book, 'The Case Against Hillary Clinton' and Barbara Olson's two books; it is critical that the West de-clintonize, but that will be automatic once it is understood that the clintons risked civilization itself in order to gain and retain power. It shouldn't take books, however, to see that a leader is a dangerous, self-absorbed sicko. People should be able to figure that out for themselves. The electorate must be taught to think, to reason. It must be able to spot spin, especially in this age of the electronic demagogue. I am not hopeful. As Bertrand Russell noted, "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. " *George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism
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Helping to elect Ronald Reagan twice.
Do you know of any articles on FR that relate the story of a heckler at a dinner/speech in NYC being hauled off?
The heckler stood up to differ with a terrorist comment by the dinner speaker. Needless to say, the speaker was IMPEACHED sick willy, a typical democrat.
As usual.
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Daschle's GambleThe Democrats take on the warIt had to happen eventually. Last week saw the first attempt by the political opposition to mount a real attack on the war on terrorism. On Wednesday, Senators started subjecting deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz to withering questions about the expanding war effort. "We seem to be good at developing entrance strategies, not so good at developing exit strategies," opined Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia. "If we expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going beyond doomsday," he went on. "How long can we afford this? We went [to Afghanistan] to hunt down the terrorists. We don't know where Osama bin Laden is or whether he is alive or not. We don't know where Mullah [Mohammad] Omar is hiding ... When will we know we have achieved victory?" Senator Ernest Hollings from South Carolina chimed in, "We've got a deficit and we know it will exceed $350 billion." He went on characterizing the Bush administration's argument as: "Since we've got a war, we've got to have deficits -- and the war is never going to end." He predicted that sooner or later, "this town is going to sober up." |
MY COMMENT: Andrew Sullivan has it almost right. What we are witnessing is not suicide but the death throes of a political relic.
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