Posted on 11/29/2004 5:40:37 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
It's surprising that four years after President Clinton left office, the Tallahassee Democrat would devote a full, half-page of its precious editorial space to a hate-Clinton column.
The paper didn't give the assignment to Bubba Berlow or to Bubba Cotterrell. It gave the assignment to a carpetbagger from the New York Daily News, Michael Goodwin.
Goodwin thinks he is being cute, catering to us Tallahassee hayseeds by calling ex-President Clinton "Bubba."
The occasion that gives rise to the column is recent dedication of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, our sister capital in the Arkansas, the state that served as a springboard that catapulted Clinton to the presidency.
It is this feat that sticks in Goodwin's craw and keeps him awake nights.
Imagine, a southern governor who, while serving as president of the United States, gave us and Wall Street the best eight years in our nation's history, and did it without resorting to a made-in-the-White House war.
Instead of using this festive occasion to dwell upon Clinton's accomplishments, as did President Bush generously and eloquently in his remarks at the dedication, Goodwin uses the occasion to remind us of a woman named Monica.
He doesn't mention Newt Gingrich, Prince Charles or a certain man from Abilene. Whom is he trying to kid? Their dalliances are writ large in history, and the names of their co-dalliants are well known. When was the last time you read about any of those dalliances in an op-ed piece?
What is so bilious, in 2004, about a character flaw in Bill Clinton, who served as President of the United States from 1993 to 2001? Has Goodwin never seen "The Crucible" or read "The Scarlet Letter" or any of William (Bubba) Shakespeare's great plays?
Why is Goodwin not writing about having a self-proclaimed alcoholic in the White House, one who would mislead the nation into war, costing, so far, more than 1,000 precious lives of American servicemen? Are those 1,000 lives less important than one Monica?
Is a Connecticut aristocrat, posing as a two-gun John Wayne from Texas, less of a miscreant than a Bubba from Little Rock? Yes, a Bubba with warts as well as greatness.
It was Bill Clinton's humanity that made him a great president. Did that human being have flaws? Of course he did. Trying to humiliate him by calling him, "Bubba" only shows the writer's ignorance. In true Bubba country, "Bubba" is a term of endearment. It implies a bond between the Bubba and the people.
That's why Goodwin is frightened to death of "Bubba Hillary." And that's what keeps the hate-Clinton columns coming.
Cheer up scholar!
Here's a magazine to read, while you convaless...
Landru might like it too, cause it's got a frisky little Polish gal on the cover! ;^D >DOINK!<Please Note: >Doink< is Copyright Property of Landru Inc.
HA!!!!
Ummmmm, izzat Monica LewinskY??
The "Fiery Pepperpot" & notorious player of an infamous left leaning skin flute?
Well bucko, how would a Welshman know names ending with a 'sky' are probably a German Jew, as opposed to ending with a 'ski', which "is" Polish.
~huh?
You may (_x_) , 'K?
>DOINK!<
...the real thing, (_E=MC2_)
Oh but she did look that good once, scholar.
Well.
...the top of her head must've. ;^)
Fortunately, we are all of like mind as to what said adjectives are...MUD
Ah...I don't whether to laugh or cry.
"Pictures of Ziang Zemin"
(To be sung to Camper Van Beethoven's "Pictures of Matchstick Men")
When Slick was called to Viet Nam...
Bill spewed his lies and turned a shade of yellow!!
Rush feeds my head...I FReep with dead...
When we meet Slick's spine shall turn to Jell-O!!
He'll quake...he'll tremble...RIGHT's day's dawnin'...
Slick'll curse my face...but I'll be his Shadow!!
Posters of Jiang Zemin and you...
Images of chop stix, yen, and nukes...
All Bill's TREASON'll be made clear to you!!
Right rejected yer election...
Next, we'll start an insurrection...NOW!!!
Slicks' rapings' haunt the FRee...
My Faith won't let me leave Bill alone!!
Posters of Waco's dead, you fools...
Images of Kosovo's dead, too...
Why can't the Med'yuh tell us the Truth?!
Willard...you'd best RESIGN...
And face yer crimes...do yer Jail Time!!
Willie...IT'S JUSTICE TIME!!
Sic Semper Fi...you'd best RESIGN!!!
(hauntin' formal fiddle)
Let MUD take CarVile, men...
Take Whorealdo fer a spin...
Headbutt ol' Sweet Jennin's...
Slap BrokeJaw 'til it stings...
Jack Rather on the chin...
Handcuff O.J. Simpson...
Endoscope Perky Kate...[ewww, yuck!!]
Next, Ol' MUD will legislate!!!
FReegards, all...MUD (10/10/2001)
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