Clintons' 'Good Soldier' Explains All Those Messes

The New York Times ^ | 5/15/2003 | JANET MASLIN

[DainBramage]

Remember when Drudge did this?

Different Blumenthal, but it made its point.

[DeweyCA]

"just as the presidents of the late 20th century operated in the shadow of F.D.R., those of the first part of the 21st century will stand in the shadow of Clinton."

My God, this guy is totally delusional (besides being as big of a liar as BJ Clinton).

[Reactionary]

I think this book is a wonderful thing. After all, we have it all in black and white now, so Sid can't exactly parse his way out of the obvious lies and distortions.

We're going to have a grand time deconstructing Sid's little fantasy.

[mc5cents]

"just as the presidents of the late 20th century operated in the shadow of F.D.R., those of the first part of the 21st century will stand in the shadow of Clinton."

Hahahahahahahahahahah!!!!! Stop it. You're killing me! Hohoheeheehee stop it. Hohoho that is rich. That has to be from a Simpsons episode. Has to be.

[SuziQ]

Mom liked me best.

Sidney Blumenthal, like Michael Kinsley, is a prissy little sh*t!

[Whispering Smith]

The man (Sidney) is a fool.

[Utah Girl]

Ugh, I don't know. I'm checking back on Amazon.com in a couple of months to see where the book lands up.

[NYCVirago]

Writing throughout "The Clinton Wars" with the patience of a schoolteacher aiding the benighted, Mr. Blumenthal explains that Mrs. Clinton has proof that she wrote the book herself. But why no mention of a hired collaborator? "Because, she decided, no matter how endless the list, some of the many, many people who had helped her were bound to feel that they had been left off." Yeah, sure. Even the New York Times knows that this is BS.

[MHGinTN]

Sounds like the title ought be The Clinton Whores, with a cast of thousands.

[Howlin]

Don't you LOVE this quote:

"The Clinton Wars" means to solidify Mr. Blumenthal's place in history. He wrote memos and speeches (included here for the reader to enjoy). He gave valued advice. He came up with the slogan "One America," which, he helpfully points out, is "an updating of `E pluribus unum.' " He introduced President Clinton to a promising British politician named Tony Blair.

[MHGinTN]

It could be said that had there not been a staff of 'blumenthals' sinkEmperor would have soiled himself away years before 2000. The Sid Blumenthals kept the administration afloat. For that, I'm not certain yet whether we ought thank them for not allowing the nation to sink too deeply into the cesspool of clintonism, or kick them in the teeth for keeping the deviant president out of harms way! I suspect (as Hitch has alluded in the past) that the administration would have run similarly had clinton been locked away in his off-office bathroom for seven years with all the cocaine and nubile bitches his heart desired. Except for hatellary pounding on the door to ruin his concentration, things would have been similar in outcome. Well, perhaps a janitor in Sudan and an aspirin factory there would still be working, and a few camels and empty tents might be yet in evidence, but all in all, the absence of the potus with his cabinet, working weekly to administaer the nation is a plenary point.

[Utah Girl]

I think clinton was locked away somewhere for his whole term. I think he didn't run the nation, he regarded the presidency as a babe magnet. I think he played around and travelled, and left the governing to others, including Hillary!. He was there for the TV photo ops to jut his chin out and look presidential.

[Richard Kimball]

"You squirrels better have some nuts in your cheeks or somebody's going downtown." Quote from same source as yours?

[Timesink]

Sidney Blumenthal, like Michael Kinsley, is a prissy little sh*t!

Sidney Blumenthal makes Michael Kinsley look like Mike Ditka.

[Howlin]

I consider them all "a government in waiting," just dying to get back into power.

And we already know they will say or do anything to make that happen.

[doberville]

It is apparent to me - by the intensity of the message and the ardor of the messsenger - that ole Sid is in love with Clinton.

[Utah Girl]

I keep saying that America would not survive another Clinton presidency. I think Hillary! is laying her plans to run in 2004. She has to run for Senator in 2006, and her reelection isn't a lock. And she will be in her sixties in 2008.

[small voice in the wilderness]

The attempt to lay roses at the alter of smoldering sh*t that IS the clinton legacy continues to amaze me. Of all people who really need to stay silent lest he call attention once again to his part in the whole clinton debacle, sidney blumenthall rates at the top of the heap of human debris and hubris. But, please, if they must GO ON and ON, let them. Those who already know the truth won't be swayed, and those whose eyes have been opened, if only slightly over the past two years, will be unable to swallow the clinton koolaid any longer. It's like the cheap wine that his presidency was. Bitter and unfit for consumption.

[SuziQ]

Sidney Blumenthal makes Michael Kinsley look like Mike Ditka.

ROTFL!! It's those stupid little 'pince nez' glasses he wears. I guess he thinks they make him look like an intellectual. Doesn't work for me; they just make him look more like a twit!

[chimera]

Oh, cripes, why did you have to post those pictures without a barf alert? What a smarmy-looking bum. And who in their right mind would spend good money to read the memoir of the Clintons' hatchet-man, a liar who goes out and lies in the defense of other liars? Blumenthal is just one of the veritable rogue's gallery of liars and cheats and snitches and apparatchiks who haunted the hallowed halls of the people's house in those dark years. One can only imagine the smell still lingers, but hopefully will be flushed out, never to return.