[Hijacking the subject of this thread and bringing it back to the original topic of “Missing Bill Clinton”]
Here are a couple lines that I’ve excerpted from a funny essay that Conan O’Brien wrote in the Jan. 8 edition of Time Magazine, comparing President Clinton to a character in the Saturday morning cartoons:
Clinton was our first cartoon President. He ran off cliffs, was crushed by anvils and flattened by turn-of-the-century trains. Yet moments later, we always saw him, just like Wile E. Coyote or Daffy Duck, completely reassembled and eagerly pursuing his next crazy scheme… <snip> …Whenever the smoke cleared, Clinton remained standing, covered in soot and looking at us slightly chagrined. But before we could pity him, the music was back on, and he was confidently strutting across the New Mexican landscape…
I think that kind of sums up a certain aspect of Clinton’s presidency – whether you think he was a good president or a bad president, at least he put on a helluva show for us. Conan O’Brien ends his essay with the following line:
** Yes, I’m going to miss Bill Clinton. And regardless of your politics, you will too.**
Not ready to take on the Pentagon or the Cox Report then, Elvis? Didn’t read that New York Times link? (Don’t think that’s a WSJ or Murdoch’s publication. In fact, I think it’s kinda liberal. But then, by your standards, Barbra Streisand is G. Gordon Liddy.)
I’ll be interested to see how much luck Dubya has getting them to disarm - or if he even cares enough to try, for that matter. Getting the GFA written and signed and for the most part adhered to was a monumental achievement, and disparaging it because it hasn’t wiped out several centuries of violence within three years is just ludicrous. The whole issue of decommissioning (which the IRA has said from the start it wouldn’t agree to) is nothing but a red herring anyway, being blown way out of proportion by the “No” Unionists in order to scupper the peace process, but that’s probably a subject for another thread…
As for George Will, he may not quite be Rush Limbaugh, but he isn’t much better - and I seem to recall he’s got a few skeletons in his own closet …
Well, well, well. We must have been lucky to have the worst person in the office to preside over the very best period of time, economically, socially, environmentally, that the United States ever saw in the twentieth century, and indeed in its post-industrial history. Oh, yeah. No President has control over the economy. Except, of course, Ronald Reagan.
Wonder what the faux-moralistic guy with the sucker in his mouth is gonna do? Make us immortal? Travel to other planets? Hey, maybe we’ll cure AIDS! Oh, wait a minute. Republicans hate fags, so I suppose that one’s off the list.
Maybe he will introduce a grand new era of denial of abortions, denial of public school funding, denial of contraceptives and sex education to pre-adults, denial of both opportunity and relief in low-income areas, denial of the teaching of evolution, strengthening of drug penalties, the building of more prisions, and the prompt execution of the uneducated former welfare recipients turned murderous drug dealers who believe in Heaven. Won’t that be nice?
What is his complaint here? That a terrorist camp, being nearly empty, is as invalid a military target as a pharmaceutical factory?
And I myself would lump Will in with Limbaugh. Neither take a point of view from reality. It is easier to start with “If a non-Republican said it or did it, it is bad. Now I will try to find support for this view.”
More on the foreign perspective of Clinton’s foreign policy, from the Irish Sunday Tribune:
I really wish this newspaper was online. The article that contains this quote is a two-page retrospective of the Clinton presidency that’s both critical when necessary and laudatory when deserved. It’s quite typical of the European view of Clinton, I think.
But I know most Americans don’t care what other countries think about them :rolleyes:
Fuck face was not commenting on your facts or assertions. It’s just that from reading your posts, I picture your face red, a vein bulging from your forehead, and your monitor covered with spittle.