Will Bill Clinton Find Peace?

Opinion Journal ^ | 04/08/2002 | ROBERT L. BARTLEY

[Pokey78]

How sad to see him spend his retirement nurturing grievances.

Bill Clinton was president of our Republic for eight years, and what diminishes him diminishes us all. If I may speak for his critics, we have no desire to pursue him from now to eternity. We'd hope instead that in retirement he'd achieve a measure of inner peace and historical detachment, as Richard Nixon ultimately did after his presidential disgrace.

[altair]

Bill Clinton was president of our Republic for eight years, and what diminishes him diminishes us all. If I may speak for his critics, we have no desire to pursue him from now to eternity.

You may not speak for me and that first sentence is ludicrous.

[backhoe]

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[JFoxbear]

I hope Hillary seeks the Presidency in two years.

If she go's for it, I'll help her campaign! If she'll have me...

[Joe Boucher]

Hopefully he soon will find peace via the long dirt nap.

[capitan_refugio]

I know a way that Mr. Clinton can rehabilitate his standing in world opinion. He should offer to be a "human shield" for Arafat.

[Waco]

He's nuts. Loony bins. Evil. Crimminal. Anyone remember "Criswell Predicts"? A book which came out around early seventies? He had one that said a prez. would go insane while in office but it would never be revealed. X42 was insane long before taking office I think. But, he did show one thing: "Never have so many been so stupid!"

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

So long as Bill Clinton is preoccupied with what we have done to him, he'll never reach meaningful peace or detachment. But he's still young, and perhaps in time he'll ponder what he did to diminish his . . .

country.

Saul of Tarsus became Paul the evangelist, author of much of the New Testament. We should pray for a similar miracle in the present instance.

Clinton will find peace, if ever he looks for it.

In the meantime, what about a Presidential Medal of Freedom for Jean Harris and R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.? Even an invitation to the WH would be a start . . .

[Piquaboy]

He might if he got rid of Hillary. Then maybe he could find a piece somewhere else since Monica left town.

[TroutStalker]

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Journalistic defenders were curiously unmoved that [The American Spectator] was left near death by an official probe of how it spent its money investigating the president of the United States.

That is not curious at all. The First Amendment gives carte blance to the expression and even the publication of fallible human opinion. Even--dare I say it--politics. Journalists, OTOH, constantly grouse about the INTERNET because "it isn't fact-checked."

Journalism defines itself by the conceit that "the news" is objective. That conceit is antithetical to the First Amendment. Journalist do not, therefore, normally defend the First Amendment, far from it. Journalists consider the First Amendment to be a loophole which should be closed by (hurl alert!) "Campaign Finance Reform."

Print journalism is--ironically, because of the First Amendment--entitled to publish the opinion that they don't need no stinkin' First Amendment. But since broadcasting (as a species of wireless communication) as we know it was created and is sustained by the FCC's censoring all but the few whom it licenses, nobody actually has and vindicates First Amendment rights in broadcasting.

Why Broadcast Journalism is Unnecessary and Illegitimate

[mombonn]

Mr. Brock, of course, is the John Walker Lindh of contemporary conservatism.

LOL! I got to this line while reading the WSJ, and IMMEDIATELY jumped back to FR to make sure someone had posted it!

I LOVE IT - on the WSJ site they show a copy of the $25,000 check clintbilly wrote to the Arkansas Supreme Court. What's really interesting is that it is drawn against a joint account between him and the evil junior sinator from NY - her name is FIRST on the account!

Can't wait to read the rest of this!

[mombonn]

It never fails - when I shoot off my mouth before reading the replies . . .! That check is priceless!

[BluesDuke]

But since broadcasting (as a species of wireless communication) as we know it was created and is sustained by the FCC's censoring all but the few whom it licenses, nobody actually has and vindicates First Amendment rights in broadcasting.

I'm not always thrilled about what oozes forth from the broadcast world today, either, but broadcasting was not created by the FCC, which was born in 1934, well after American broadcasting had begun in earnest. (Why is one not surprised to remember this was yet another of the New Deal era's devil children?) But, while I'm at it, I think the Communications Act of 1934 which created the FCC ought to be repealed and the FCC abolished post haste, and for the reason you just enunciated: today's sustenance by FCC censorship of all save those it licences.

[Nita Nupress]

Will Bill Clinton Find Peace?

Does Nita Nupress care?

[Pagey]

"We'd hope instead,that in retirement he'd achieve a measure of inner peace and historical detachment, as Richard Nixon ultimately did after his presidential disgrace".

I don't believe that's possible now, or ever will be.Nixon wrote Several "Readable Books"(Check out "Leaders" for starters,which includes Leaders he met when he was Dwight's V.P. ) of ALL his Years in Politics and ALL the Major Leaders of the world he Interfaced with,AFTER he went to San Clemente---Now, in contrast,#42 will write only "A single" Book, that NO ONE will read.It's all downhill from here for him and "His Insides".That's HIS PROBLEM, not mine.