CLINTON LIE-BRARY DOUBLE-TALK ON C-SPAN TONIGHT

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[Mia T]

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Sunday's Program
December 29th on C-SPAN at 6:30pm & 9:30pm ET
A conversation with fmr. President Bill Clinton on his presidency, followed by a tour of the construction site for his presidential library in Little Rock, AR. Also, a tour of the Clinton papers and materials with Skip Rutherford, long time Clinton friend and President of the Clinton Foundation.

"American Politics" is C-SPAN's weekly look at the candidates, issues and events which shape American politics and public policy.

SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE LOWLIFE

by Mia T

1- Listen to clinton tell us how open he and his corrupt wife are. The clintons, unlike Bush, don't hide things, he says. He will release all documents of his presidency, he says.

I wonder...does that include, say, the Ford Building evidence that convinced the House of Representatives he is a rapist and, therefore, unfit to be President of the United States?

2- Listen to his pitiful wishful thinking...Just because a few presidents' ratings got better with the passage of time, he actually believes time will cure his utter failure of a presidency.

3- The rapist actually lobbies on C-SPAN FOR A THIRD TERM. This is one sick puppy.

4- clinton misses the design's REAL metaphor, as well as the architect's sense of irony.

The lie-brary is hardly the "bridge to the 21^st century." A bridge, by definition spans and provides passage over a gap or barrier. The clinton lie-brary joins nothing. If it is a bridge, it is, fittingly, a bridge to nowhere.

Alternatively, note the building's form. . . Straight out of the trailer park. I think Polshek pulled one over on the rube.

[Mia T]

The rapist actually said that the people could want an ex-president (I wonder which one he was thinking of...) to be president again because of the relevance of his unique experiences. He said we should think about changing the constitution...

'Delusional' and 'shameless' don't begin to capture this aberration.

[j_tull]

I will forever chuckle that the lie-brary bears an unmistakable resemblence to a singlewide house trailer. That the scumbag approved the design makes it even funnier.

[Mia T]

exactly! PR--not IQ, QED

WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS

 

by Mia T, 12-30-02

 

If mutability of meaning was necessary for the survival of the clintons--their survival hinged ultimately on the deconstruction of words and laws--it is more than a little ironic, and a manifestation of the special sway and shortsightedness of the pathologic ego, that clinton's monument to himself will necessarily define the clintons with the permanance of great inviolate places of iconic architecture.

While a huckster removes meaning from institutions --the wife picked up where the husband left off--an architect encodes meaning in buildings. James S. Polshek, the architect with the dubious distinction of having been commissioned to build the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, believes that a successful architectural solution must necessarily be rooted in relevance.

Just as Polshek's buildings have physical layers, so too do they have layers of meaning. His Rose Center for Earth and Space, for example, is informed formally and programmatically by the historic architecture of a designated landmark even as it redefines itself, (often too self-consciously, in my view), in Star-Trekian terms. Reduced to its essence, the building is the nascent universe before the Big Bang, the promise of the undifferentiated cell in its mother's womb,

The "bridge to the 21^st century" was, perhaps, clinton's most delusional conceit, so it is not surprising that it would become clinton's self-referential metaphor of choice. His library was to be that bridge, if he had anything to say about it...

 

The architect is often the master of the inside joke, witness Robert Venturi's postmodern chairs. Venturi exploited--unabashedly and with abandon--the vocabulary of Las Vegas, its stage-set-as-reality and its roadside culture--bright, clashing, ugly and fake. The architect's inside joke is his hedge against the sycophancy that comes with patronage.

The flip side of the encoded meaning of the architect is the terrorist's decoding of it. To bin Laden, the World Trade Center was Jewish capitalism encoded in urban space. If Polshek's vision of clinton's library is a bridge, the inside joke is that, at best, it is a bridge to nowhere.

More likely, it is a bridge to the 7^th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.

copyright Mia T 2002

[Mia T]

Great image capture. Was it taken off TV or computer?

I tried capturing the streaming video off my Mac with something call snapz proX, software bundled with Macs running osx. The resolution was poor.

Did you see the outside shots of the rapist in the unforgiving AR sunlight? He looks like an old man.

The clintons have really aged since "clinton utter failure writ large," aka 9/11.

[steve-b]

clinton's legacy obsession controls every word he utters...with laughable results

Hey Slick, here's your legacy to the English language.

[Mia T]

"My client had nothing to do with the low-rent, trailer-park trash politicians who infested our country for the past eight years."

--Michael Rosen, lawyer for Thomas Gambino, son of late Mafia boss Carlo Gambino

New York Post via The Wall Street Journal

(Michael Rosen was understandably eager to distance his client, a convicted loan shark, from the clintons. Another Thomas Gambino reportedly paid $50,000 to roger clinton in an unsuccessful effort to get a pardon for his father, Rosario Gambino.),

WRITTEN IN STONE: AN ARCHITECT DEFINES THE CLINTONS

Democrat Debacle of '02

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doublewide

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