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- There is a great deal of interest in how history is going to view Bill Clinton...Our first indication from the public does little to suggest that Clinton's image has become more positive in the 14 months since he left office. Just 51% of Americans now say they approve of the job Clinton did while in office, and a substantial 47% say they disapprove (the second-highest disapproval rating, behind only Nixon's). This marks a drop from the higher ratings he was receiving as he left office, and a slight drop even from his overall two-term average.
Clinton continues to drop in retrospective poll data. Only Nixon lower.
Gallup News Service
- There is a great deal of interest in how history is going to view Bill Clinton...Our first indication from the public does little to suggest that Clinton's image has become more positive in the 14 months since he left office. Just 51% of Americans now say they approve of the job Clinton did while in office, and a substantial 47% say they disapprove (the second-highest disapproval rating, behind only Nixon's). This marks a drop from the higher ratings he was receiving as he left office, and a slight drop even from his overall two-term average.
- Thanx for the heads up. Notwithstanding 9/11, the following C-SPAN finding applies.
- Note especially historian Douglas Brinkley's comment...
A C-SPAN survey of 58 U.S. historians has concluded that Bill Clinton is the president with the lowest 'moral authority' -- beating out Richard Nixon for last place, Monday's NEW YORK TIMES is set report.
----C-SPAN PRESIDENTS POLL: CLINTON JUDGED LOWEST IN MORALS
clinton's ranking will likely get worse over time. Economic issues fade in importance over time. Moral issues presist and grow. (paraphrase)
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------Douglas Brinkley, history prof., on Washington J. discussing C-SPAN poll
I think that history will view this much differently. They will say I made a bad personal mistake, I paid a serious price for it, but that I was right to stand and fight for my country and my constitution and its principles...
-----the First Psychopath
...[bill clinton], a man who will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents.
-----Al Gore at clinton's post-impeachment rally
It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.
-----Nietzsche
- I suspect that, to spite us all,
- Arthur Schlesinger will live to 120
- just so he can write
- the definitive clinton hagiography.
- Arthur Schlesinger will live to 120
--------Mia T, Musings: Senatorial Courtesy Perverted
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- History Lesson
- by Mia T
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- Someone--was it Maupassant?--
- once called history "that excitable and lying old lady."
- The same can be said of historians.
- Surely it can be said of Doris Kearns Goodwin,
- the archetypical pharisaical historian,
- not-so-latently clintonoid,
- Lieberman-Paradigmatic
- (i.e., clinton is an unfit president;
- therefore clinton must remain president),
- intellectually dishonest,
- (habitually doing what the Arthur Schlesingers of this world do:
- making history into the proof of their theories).
- The Forbids 400's argument is shamelessly spurious.
- They get all unhinged over the impeachment of clinton,
- claiming that it will
- "leave the presidency permanently disfigured and diminished,
- at the mercy as never before of the caprices of any Congress."
- Yet they dismiss the real and present--and future!!--danger
- to the presidency and the country
- of not impeaching and removing
- this admittedly unfit, (Goodwin)
- "documentably dysfunctional," (NYT)
- presidency-diminishing, (Goodwin)
- power-abusing,
- psychopathic thug.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin and those 400 other
- hog-and-bow-tied-save-clinton,
- retrograde-obsessing historiographers
- are a supercilious, power-hungry,
- egomaniacal lot in their own right.
- For them, clinton validates
- what Ogden Nash merely hypothesized:
- Any buffoon can make history,
- but only a great man can write it.
- Someone--was it Maupassant?--
POSTSCRIPT:
- Weekly Standard writer Tucker Carlson has dubbed Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz "loser of the week" for his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week. The New York Times described his testimony as "gratuitously patronizing."
- "Why would Wilentz risk his reputation to join the already bulging ranks of Clinton throne-sniffers?" Mr. Carlson asked Marxist historian Eugene Genovese, who guesses that "the pressure of time and the passions of the moment" got to Mr. Wilentz.
- "As for why anyone would cite the Framers in defense of Clinton, Genovese seems baffled" Mr. Carlson wrote.
- Mr. Genovese told Mr. Carlson: "I come from a rather tough working-class neighborhood where attitudes toward women left a great deal to be desired. ... But if anybody had said in the local pool room" some of the things President Clinton reportedly did to Monica Lewinsky, "the attitude would have been, 'That's degenerate. You don't do that to a girl, not even a whore.' The idea that the United States of America, the supreme world power, would tolerate a man in office who is a palpable moral degenerate -- the Founding Fathers would have choked."
The Washington Times---Inside Politics
it won't s-p-i-n KNOWNOTHING VICTIMS RODHAM/CLINTON REVISITED
Q ERTY2 "There isn't a shred of evidence."
HILLARY, YOU KNOW, KnowNothing Victim Q ERTY4 double bagel
reckless rodham-clinton-gore reinvention-of-government schemata
W I D E B O D Y. low-center-of-gravity Dim Bulb, Congenital Bottom Feeder
clinton zipper vitiated by obvious spilth
Q ERTY6 utter failure IT IS OBVIOUS
4th-Estate Malfeasance (DEATH BY MISREPORT)
rodham-clinton reality-check BUMP!
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