Mark Steyn: Bill's bogus journey

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 05/12/2002 | Mark Steyn

[Miss Marple]

I don't know if it will be repeated or not. Probably you should check your cable guide. Sorry I don't have more information.

[WIMom]

"We are really lucky we survived his presidency."

Have we?

[hillsborofox]

Thanks for the post, Pokey, and thanks for the biting truth again, Mr. Steyn.

[friendly]

"I said that I found Chelsea rather attractive in a coltish sort of way"

A horse is a horse, of course of course.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Yet, amazingly, September 11 seems only to have confirmed America's Ex-President-for-Life in his indestructible view of his own indispensability. As he said to Paul McCartney's girlfriend backstage at one all-star gala, he feels that he would do a better job than Bush as he's got more experience.

Yeah, after eight years of his bogus "peace and prosperity," we end up with the worst foreign attack on US soil in the past few centuries. Thanks, you prick, but we've had more than enough of you and your incompetence. You did enough damage, you bastard.

[NYC GOP Chick]

. There is no shame, no soul, no substance to this person. There will be a time when the term "narcissistic" will be replaced by "clintonistic". That will be his legacy.

Nope. September 11, 2001 will be his everlasting legacy.

[300winmag]

There will be a time when the term "narcissistic" will be replaced by "clintonistic". That will be his legacy. I pray he lives a long life and that he is lucid and aware of what a national disgrace he is and will be known as forever.

I do my part every day to hasten that day. That's why I constantly refer to something slimy, underhanded, and corrupt (and not very bright) as "klintonian". Note the spelling, which is in deference to Bill's younger days, when he no doubt spelled "America" with a "k".

If you will excuse me, I really have to go "take a klinton".

[CyberAnt]

I heard that NBC wasn't offering $50 million - it was Clinton who was asking for $50 million. That seems more plausible to me.

[stiga bey]

I love it: "metallic voice." I've called her the Iron Maiden before, but maybe now I'll start calling her Metallica.

[MeekOneGOP]

Mark Steyn: Bill's bogus journey

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Yet, amazingly, September 11 seems only to have confirmed America's Ex-President-for-Life in his indestructible view of his own indispensability. As he said to Paul McCartney's girlfriend backstage at one all-star gala, he feels that he would do a better job than Bush as he's got more experience.

This was marginally more tastefully formulated than the confidences quoted in The New York Times, when the Narcissist-in-Chief regretted that the deaths of thousands of Americans hadn't happened on his watch. He told Georgetown University students that he supports the war, but he thinks America is "not blameless. Even today we still have the occasional hate crime rooted in race, religion, or sexual orientation. So terror has a long history."

No president has been so obsessed with his "legacy" as Bill Clinton. There was that poignant moment during his final Middle East peace talks when the old schmoozer raged at Yasser Arafat, "I'm a loser and you made me one!" Since September 11, that assessment has been harder to dispute, which is why he's been meeting regularly with old Administration officials to burnish his legacy.

In fact, he sees more of his cabinet nowadays than when he was President. In 1998, he held just two cabinet meetings: one to lie to them about Monica, and the other to apologise for lying to them about Monica. These days, they sit around trying to figure out what else they were busy with back then.

Clinton's problem is that since September 11 either his presidency is seen as a trivial interlude, a holiday from history between the Cold War and the present war, or - worse - he's set up as the designated Neville Chamberlain figure, the weak man who never appreciated the enormity of the threat.

Week by week, more and more intriguing tidbits leak out: according to some rumours, there is an Iraqi link to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, but Clinton chose to ignore it because it suited him politically to blame the bombing on the broader "climate of hate" created by Right-wing militias and conservative radio hosts. There'll be a lot more of this before it's all over.................

He rattles around in their pretend "home" in Chappaqua without even a pooch for company. Buddy the dog was killed in a mysterious car accident a few months back, merely the latest FOB (Friend Of Bill) to die prematurely. Bill is looking more and more like the Clintons' past, Hillary their future.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[MeekOneGOP]

The Legacy..........

[MeekOneGOP]

More Legacy..........

i got away wif murder, rape and
obstruction ov justice. . .
i so proud o' myself! !

JESSE JACKSON and his mistress Karin Stanford (circled)
pose with Clinton and other Rainbow Coalition staffers on
December 3, 1998 -- five months before Jesse's love child
was born.

[MeekOneGOP]

More Legacy..........

[MeekOneGOP]

Where's the Chelsea lover when you need him? ;-)

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[Orual]

Delicious reading.

He looked for the first time oddly anachronistic - stuck in the day before yesterday, like some Lite FM disc jockey who doesn't realise that the station has switched formats.