Posted on 07/14/2003 5:55:21 PM PDT by Mia T
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Rising from the downtown streets, a $160 million center will one day be a place to celebrate the accomplishments of Bill Clinton's eight years as leader of the free world.
Just a few blocks away, a Houston businessman and a former one-term Republican congressman from New York are hoping to build a center of their own to mock the Clinton presidency.
"We already hear he's going to bring a bunch of egghead economists to his library to say how great the economy was when he was president," said former U.S. Rep. John LeBoutillier. "And we'll find our own who can say it had nothing to do with him. As long as he's talking, we'll have to be here trying to keep him somewhat honest and stop him from re-writing history."
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"Reagan, Nixon, that's the past," he said. "The problem is Clinton's still young, he's the most powerful force in Democratic politics and he would like nothing more than to erase the past so he can return to the White House with Hillary."
As Clinton seeks to mark legacy, counter-library group wants to mock it |
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.
Whereas 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 21st 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...
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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 7th century...or a doublewide to house clinton double-speak. Take your choice.
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copyright Mia T 2002 |
eyes wide shut
EPILOGUE: (ADDITIONAL AUDIO)
Hear Christopher Shays: "The bottom line: HE DID RAPE BROADDRICK."
When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison.
A risible and repulsive result;
While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy,
In the end,
We will have set apart clinton as the hero
Mia T, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |
The REAL "Living History" -- clintoplasmodial slime
Q ERTY8missus clinton's REAL virtual office update
Jeez, I wish I'da thought of that one.
Transcript of Juanita Broaddrick's Interview on Dateline NBC The Broaddrick-Myers interview
has also been spiked by the clintons.
(FREE REPUBLIC HAS AGREED TO HOST IT).
(And, BTW, Lanny Davis' counsel and Lieberman, Shays and the U.S. Senate notwithstanding, Living History will not inoculate hillary clinton from the clinton rapes.)zipper-hoisted PING!
eyes wide shut
(she knew
she raped, too)
GORE ON CLINTON RAPES-THE VIDEO
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In the meantime, have those skeptics view the flash movie below (to view, click on the picture); the movie contains a clip from the interview; Juanita Broaddrick is describing the rape by clinton to NBC's Lisa Myers.. It also documents hillary clinton's culpability.
NOTE: You will need QuickTime Player to view the Broaddrick clintonRAPE interview. Most browsers already contain this plug-in. The Broaddrick clintonRAPE interview is a large file, but will start playing immediately, i.e., will stream, in all browsers except Internet Explorer (IE). IE users can also get the Broaddrick clintonRAPE movie to stream by opening QuickTime Player, selecting "open URL in new player" and pasting in the Broaddrick clintonRAPE movie URL: OPENING THE MOVIE DIRECTLY IN QUICKTIME HAS THE ADDED ADVANTAGE OF NOT DOWNLOADING THIS VERY LARGE FILE ONTO YOUR HARD DRIVE. |
A SUGGESTION: Burn CDs of the Broaddrick clintonRAPE interview and hand them out at FReeps; hand them out on campuses; hand them out everywhere. Printing the CD or a label -- or even a cd sleeve or insert -- with the above graphic would enhance the impact, in my view. |
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When Alex kills a woman during a rape, Alex is sent to prison. A risible and repulsive result; While Alex is conditioned in prison with aversion therapy, In the end, We will have set apart clinton as the hero Mia T, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE |
The REAL "Living History" -- clintoplasmodial slime
"Free Republic is one of those groups obsessed with the Clinton era." Word's out: Protest at Hillary's tonight
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