[Polybius]

"It is all my fault."

Robert E. Lee to the shattered remnants of Pickett's division.

(Can anyone imagine William Jefferson Clinton ever uttering those words?)

[LadyJD]

I certainly could never imagine the apologist for WJC and all that he
represents; --the antithesis of Lee; who posted that line, saying it.

[calmseas]

"It is all my fault."

Robert E. Lee to the shattered remnants of Pickett's division.

For those who have not been to Gettysburg, you must go. All Americans should spend a day at Gettysburg at some point in their lives. In many ways, the essence of who we are as Americans is distilled in this one, hallowed place.

[solzhenitsyn]

Lee and Clinton; what an interesting contrast!

Bill Clinton was president (and distracted bystander) while the United States enjoyed a period of unprecedented prosperity. Robert E. Lee, on the other hand, was the foremost military leader of a rebellion that failed catastrophically. The uprising was crushed with immense loss of life, and the breakaway states were left in poverty for generations afterward.

Barely out of the White House, President Clinton is already sinking into oblivion and irrelevance. Even most of his supporters know him for who he is -- a hollow grifter and relentless self-promoter. Over a hundred years after the crushing of the Confederacy, millions of Americans, Northerners and Southerners, hold for Gen. Lee the sort of love and unbounded esteem that only Bill Clinton will ever feel for Bill Clinton.

Maybe character does matter, after all. Maybe there are greater and higher things in life than just " ... the economy, stupid".