~bows humbly~
Way back in #117, **roger thornhill ** asked me for my estimation of John F. Kennedy. I am not going to burden this thread with a separate discussion of JFK, except to say this:
John Kennedy had something which Bill Clinton wholly lacks (and desperately needs). And that something is a sense of irony - in particular, an ability to look at oneself in a sardonic light.
I always got that impression that JFK was well aware of his failings and did not mind admitting them to himself. But Bill Clinton takes himself sooooooo seriously…
Watching him blubbering away at Peter Jennings just struck me as so…childish and unmanly. We are never going to get a candid statement from the man, even if we pull him down and threaten to break his arm. How refreshing it would be if he just up and admitted: “Yeah, I’m a grab-ass and a shitheel and a first-class SOB, but shucks…”
Never happen.
And even if you do not believe he deserved to be impeached for the Monica Thing, he certainly deserved to be impeached for the outrageous Last Minute Pardon Blowout Sale of 2000. Gad, that stank to high heaven.
Yes, it’s too bad that the Constitution allows a President to pardon anyone he wants for any reason he wants. If it didn’t, maybe we could have got at George H. W. Bush for his “Last Minute Pardon Blowout Sale” of 1992, which relieved many of his cronies from the fear of well-deserved jail terms.
He kicked your fucking ass in two elections. He went out with higher approval ratings than Reagan. Get over it already.
Take your fingers out of your ears sometime. Let the truth wash over you. It will cleanse you, I promise.
You need to sit through the 2000 election again sometime, this time with your head someplace other than up your ass.
Oh, I’m sorry, so if I sit through the 2000 election again I will realize that everybody who voted Republican is really a member of the Borg and everybody who voted Democrat is really a cowboy/knight/ninja/badass intent on saving tne country.
You’re right, heavens forfend that I figured people might be individuals.
Luckily enough you came around to save me from such a dreadful bit of illogical behavior.
If you sat through the election with your eyes open and your ears unstoppered you might have realized that a small group of Republican leaders DID plot to steal the election. And succeeded.
I don’t like any of those choices for Democrats. Can I be Clint Eastwood?
Does a small group of leaders equal the entire party, and everybody who voted Republican?
This Year’s Model: For the 2000 election, wouldn’t that mean you’d be in a film titled A fistfull of chads?
(But yes, with my powers of artibrary and ridiculous appelation I will allow you to be Clint Eastwood, make sure you share if with other Democrats via your Democratic Telephatic Link)
Yes, followed by the sequel: For a Few Justices More.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly doesn’t require a change of title.
Nope, not at all. The thing that matters is what’s best for the country.
Unremarkably, the recent election results followed suit.
Okay, I’m honestly curious here.
How do you feel that Bush is best for the country?
We’ve lost global credibility, our war in Iraq has galvanized our opposition, the enviornment has not failed to be protected but there’s now more mercury in it, the economic status of most Americans is worse than it was four years ago, the FCC is becoming the morality police, etc…
I’m honestly curious to see why you think we’re better off with Bush.
D’oh, that should read “not only failed”
Because he’s a Strong Leader who will Stay The Course and Let Freedom Ring. Haven’t you been paying attention?
We have credibility where it counts, as in, you fuck with us, we’ll fuck you back harder. Don’t see many Taliban running around these days. Khadaffi, international terrorist extradinaire for the last 30 years, is suddenly all sweetness and light. Sure, Iran and North Korea are sqwaking, but only because they are feeling boxed in. The environment is way cleaner now, than it was in the '70s when the Clean Air Act etc. was passed. The FCC is a joke. If you have a cite that “most Americans” are economically worse off now than they were four years ago, I’d sure like to see it.
Best regards,
milroyj
Oh Christ, milroy’s asking for a cite again. Remember the Barbara Bush’s Beautiful Mind fiasco? Three plus pages of milroy ignoring cites.
Sometimes it’s difficult for me to convince people that most Americans are vicious, truth-hating orcs.
Increasingly it’s not.
Play straight now. I’ve done you that courtesy, you could do the same.credibility As in , the next time we cry WMD, er, wolf, nobody will believe us. Ditto if we ever want to ‘administrate’ a ‘regime change’ and ‘win the peace.’
And, by the way, our warlike tendencies, or the fact that we’ll “fuck you harder.”, is kinda what led our closet ally to be unsure if Bush or Sadaam was a greater threat to global peace
this is not a totally isolated incident
don’t look very hard. Eh?
They will make a desert and call it progress
You can’t disregard reality by calling it a joke.
Do you honestly need me to give you cites on how the FCC has been fining people left and right?
Sure thing no problem.
A total of 47% of Americans rate the national economy as very good or good and 52% rate it as bad, very bad, or terrible.