What we have here is a case of disseminated malignant Clintonosis.
Posted on 10/01/2002 10:03:24 PM PDT by kattracks
Oh, the wonderful shining example Bill Clinton set - evoking memories of his childhood, his mother, his unusually clear-headed childhood ambitions - all the while refusing to accept responsibility as an adult for his wretched, self-indulgent narcissism.
Make no mistake; the Democrat politicians in the news recently, the ones refusing to say, "I did it. It was wrong, and I have no one to blame but myself," have taken Clinton's example of pathological deceit and converted it into an art form.
There was New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Torricelli Monday sniffling and blubbering through the phoniest political withdrawal speech in recent memory, informing us about his desire as a little boy to create a will and his prediction to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that he would one day become a Member of the United States Congress, as if that mattered on a day when Democrats were wondering whether they'd be able to find somebody to replace Torricelli on the ballot.
But Torricelli had to vent his spleen, take us down memory lane, indulge himself just one more time and expose his gigantic ego and even more colossal immaturity. He just doesn't get it.
Bob, you're a bum. You broke the rules. You might have broken the law, but there isn't enough evidence to prosecute you. And instead of 'fessing up like a man, you hid behind a bunch of Clinton-like excuses and tried to make people feel sorry for you. Yuck.
Then there's Kentucky Governor Paul Patton, who one day recently denied he had had an affair with a woman who was now accusing him of trying to ruin her business in the aftermath of their break-up.
There he was, denying the whole thing with his wife standing right by his side. At least Patton coughed up the truth the next day. And oh yes, Mrs. Patton had left his side by that point.
Former Pennsylvania Congressman Ed Mezvinsky, whose wife also became a Member of Congress and cast the deciding vote for Clinton's 1993 tax increase, will be sentenced this winter for his con man scheme to separate investors from their millions of supposedly invested dollars.
His excuse for the elaborate pyramid scheme? The bipolar disorder and anti-malaria medicine made him do it.
Just once, I'd like to see one of these guys get up and say, "Yeah, you caught me. I screwed up. I'm sorry, but that doesn't matter. Throw the book at me. I deserve it."
Do Republicans think differently or is this just the frustration of a middle aged conservative, sick and tired of the weaklings passing themselves off as public leaders, still living their teenaged fantasies with the mantra of, "If it feels good, do it."
What's worse is that these supposed intellectual heavyweights and absolute moral lightweights have downloaded their sickening, excuse-making, responsibility shedding behavioral characteristics on their kids. God help us when that crowd decides it's time to take charge.
David Thibault is managing editor of CNSNews.com.
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I'll say it again, as I've said many times before--this country will not be safe until every last one of the boomers (my own generation) is dead and buried. They disgust me so.
What we have here is a case of disseminated malignant Clintonosis.
That's kind of like astrology, isn't it? "Your birthdate was between here and here, so you must be a snivelling, self-absorbed windbag like Clinton and Toricelli."
What, is Dubya a Capricorn instead? Giuliani a Pisces? We used to be a country of individuals. Now all we have is 'diversity' and 'group identity.' This one's a "boomer," that one's a "Southerner," and the one over there is a "yuppie."
Of all these so-called "group identities," there is really only one that truly deserves everyone's condemnation: lawyers.
Bwa ha ha
Jeeze-Louise, I think you started a thread that can break a record. I thought the thread back in April about a terrorist capturing the Hoover dam was a humor riot, this one will eclipse big time. I have a job interview 1pm eastern and I expect at least 200 hit here. Rintense, Howlin, Ivan, et al should have a boat-load of humor and graphics. Jimbo better have his server runnin ful speed. Cheers.
Hmmm, now that I think of it, maybe they're the reason we got to this point anyway.
Hmmm, now that I think of it, maybe they're the reason we got to this point anyway.
Regards,
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