[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".

[Twodees]

I can agree with your sentiments on character. I have to disagree with your assertion that Lee led a rebellion. The rebellion was against the Constitution and it was led by Lincoln. Lincoln's war was a revolution which succeeded in setting aside the Constitution's design for a limited federal republic, replacing it with a legislative democracy.

America lost that war.