Posted on 11/29/2004 5:40:37 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
It's surprising that four years after President Clinton left office, the Tallahassee Democrat would devote a full, half-page of its precious editorial space to a hate-Clinton column.
The paper didn't give the assignment to Bubba Berlow or to Bubba Cotterrell. It gave the assignment to a carpetbagger from the New York Daily News, Michael Goodwin.
Goodwin thinks he is being cute, catering to us Tallahassee hayseeds by calling ex-President Clinton "Bubba."
The occasion that gives rise to the column is recent dedication of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, our sister capital in the Arkansas, the state that served as a springboard that catapulted Clinton to the presidency.
It is this feat that sticks in Goodwin's craw and keeps him awake nights.
Imagine, a southern governor who, while serving as president of the United States, gave us and Wall Street the best eight years in our nation's history, and did it without resorting to a made-in-the-White House war.
Instead of using this festive occasion to dwell upon Clinton's accomplishments, as did President Bush generously and eloquently in his remarks at the dedication, Goodwin uses the occasion to remind us of a woman named Monica.
He doesn't mention Newt Gingrich, Prince Charles or a certain man from Abilene. Whom is he trying to kid? Their dalliances are writ large in history, and the names of their co-dalliants are well known. When was the last time you read about any of those dalliances in an op-ed piece?
What is so bilious, in 2004, about a character flaw in Bill Clinton, who served as President of the United States from 1993 to 2001? Has Goodwin never seen "The Crucible" or read "The Scarlet Letter" or any of William (Bubba) Shakespeare's great plays?
Why is Goodwin not writing about having a self-proclaimed alcoholic in the White House, one who would mislead the nation into war, costing, so far, more than 1,000 precious lives of American servicemen? Are those 1,000 lives less important than one Monica?
Is a Connecticut aristocrat, posing as a two-gun John Wayne from Texas, less of a miscreant than a Bubba from Little Rock? Yes, a Bubba with warts as well as greatness.
It was Bill Clinton's humanity that made him a great president. Did that human being have flaws? Of course he did. Trying to humiliate him by calling him, "Bubba" only shows the writer's ignorance. In true Bubba country, "Bubba" is a term of endearment. It implies a bond between the Bubba and the people.
That's why Goodwin is frightened to death of "Bubba Hillary." And that's what keeps the hate-Clinton columns coming.
Wot, no barf alert?
Only in our beloved mullet wrapper.
Funniest thing I've read all year!
So Newt's extramarital affair justifies Clinton having tawdry sex with an intern less than half his age in this nation's most esteemed office?
Oh, I see.
Who's this supposed to be?
...and the names of their co-dalliants are well known.
Same question.
Bill Clinton was an exceptional politician. He was and is the master of double-speak, governing by the opinion poll, and straddling the middle line. While he was doing these, he always managed to do what was best for himself as well. No politician can come close to his ability.
I don't like his politics or his wife, but he was slick.
Abe is a fantasy novel writer in his spare time.
Agreed...an exceptionally talented liar.
Bubba's flaws far outweighed his attributes. If you don't believe that just ask Gennifer Flowers Monica Lewinsky, Cristy Zercher, Elizabeth Ward Gracen, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Nancy Hernreich, Susan McDougal, Debra Schiff, Sherrie Densuk, Dolly Kyle Browning, Beth Coulson, Marilyn Jo Jenkins, Juanita Broaddrick, Marsha Scott, Bobbie Ann Williams, Sally Perdue , Eileen Wellstone, Sandra Allen James, and an un-named stewardess aboard Air Force One what they think of the pervert!!!!
He is possibly referring to rumors of an affair by Eisenhower with his British driver.
The guy that wrote this has got it bad, the Bubba loving disease. Bubba was a puke. still is.
Ah, a character flaw now, is it?
Sorry Abe, but the country was in RECESSION when Clinton left office, and WALL STREET gave up all the gains derived from the good years when the tech bubble burst. Remember the attack on Microsoft?
The economy bequeathed to Clinton by Bush 41, the spending discipline placed upon him by the 94 Republican congress (remember welfare reform?) is what created the good years, and now THOSE YEARS are being eclipsed by the present economy, despite billions of losses due the 9-11 attack and the cost of defending ourselves. This is the history that will be written.
Sorry Abe, but the country was in RECESSION when Clinton left office, and WALL STREET gave up all the gains derived from the good years when the tech bubble burst. Remember the attack on Microsoft?
The economy bequeathed to Clinton by Bush 41, the spending discipline placed upon him by the 94 Republican congress (remember welfare reform?) is what created the good years, and now THOSE YEARS are being eclipsed by the present economy, despite billions of losses due the 9-11 attack and the cost of defending ourselves. This is the history that will be written.
Correction....
an exceptionally talented CONVICTED liar
Attempting to diminish President Bush in order to elevate the Clintoon is pathetic.
Style and organization of Abe's writing is a bundle of mixed metaphors and immaturity.
Does Mr. Abe Cesspool(sic) get paid for this scribble?
Dan
He also perfected the "clenched-jaw lip-bite" complete with slightly misty eyes.
I could feel the bile rise whenever he did that bit.
This thread should let us all know that anything goes for the rats when they seize power. You can lie, steal,cheat, give secrets to the Chinese, pardon drug dealers when you leave, anything at all is o.k. in the name of rat power, even rewriting history. Read this and know your enemy.
Which have been thoroughly debunked.
I always have to think these defenders of the Clinton "character" are thinking to themselves, "Gee, if Bill got away with THAT, what I did doesn't seem so bad!"
Yes. I should have added that. Thanks.
Who was it that said Bill Clinton is such an effective phony that he could cry out of one eye?
He was and is the master of double-speak...
He also perfected the "clenched-jaw lip-bite" complete with slightly misty eyes.
I could feel the bile rise whenever he did that bit.
He was the total package when it came to working the public over. Thinking back on it though, he wouldn't have made it into office if Ross Perot would have kept out of the whole affair.
He did a lot to hurt this country...and lied about it all along...and is still lying about iy.
This positive reporting served to promote the internet speculative market 'bubble', and it served to disguise the danger lurking as americans endured multiple unanswered attacks on US Soil and against interests abroad. Not to mention that the clintonistas deployed troops into more countries than any president in previous history.
Presidents Bush (41 and 43) and Reagan in contrast succeed in their presidencies IN SPITE of the constant barrage of negative press. If conservative presidents were showered with the fawning and positive media coverage that the liberal presidents INVARIABLY receive, their success would be legendary.
Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's not the politicians. It's the politicians' relationships with the press and how much the press likes the politicians that determines success in these matters. The press loved Klinton so much because he's as greedy and dirty as they are. It was a match made in heaven. Even though they had to report on blue dresses and such, they tried to back it up with "it's personal, so it doesn't affect the presidency".
You can have the best intentions in the world, but if the press doesn't like you, you're screwed (see Bush). Luckily the New Media is finally making some headway.
"Ike Was My Boss, Summersby's 1948 memoir of the war years, makes no mention of her "affair" with Eisenhower, but her 1976 autobiography suggests that it was common knowledge in wartime London and Washington. Persons close to Eisenhower, however, have maintained that the "affair" - which by her own account did not include any sexual act beyond kissing - was strictly a fantasy on her part, and have also questioned the authenticity of the 1976 book, which was not published until after her death."
Mighty thin; in fact downright anorexic.
........though not in accomplishment...but in survival
Aww! Abe's got a crush on Billy-Jeff
George Will.
Sorry, Abe. Clinton was not popular or great. He never got more than 50% of the vote, showing that his poll numbers were cooked by those like you in the propaganda press. Without Ross Perot, Clinton would have ended up munching on pork rinds in his car while cruising closed garbage dumps looking for tattered, old Playboy magazines.
Everything about Clinton was cheap. He cheapened the presidency, the Whitehouse and America. When he dies his tombstone epitaph should read: "Cheap Bill. If common sense was measured in pennies, Bill didn't own enough to rub two together."
Thank you. When this subject is broached I get so tired of those who act like "Monica" was a side issue and not one of a whole string of women and all the attendant implications.
It was Bill Clinton's humanity that made him a great president. Oh, that's the standard now. How convenient.
I particularly enjoyed his laughing at Ron Brown's funeral and his cheating on the woman he married. However, it does say a lot about what Democrats think a human should be as well explains why they have difficulty in defining when a human begins.
Muleteam1
hear, hear.
Abe comes across as stupid in the extreme in this "piece".
LOL
Well, I seem to remember a LOT of people not agreeing with this assessment of the Clinton years. His first two years in office were highlighted by the immolation of the Branch Davidians in Waco, and millions of gun-owning middle Americans becoming so distrustful of his government that they formed up into "militias", giving Clinton a domestic enemy to persecute while giving Islamic militants a welcoming hand.
The prosperous economy didn't have anything to do with Clinton, but then savvy politicos know that the president usually has very little impact on the economy.
Clinton owed the economic success of his tenure to the Republican 104th congress.
And let's not forget, the great sense of prosperity in the market was based on phony numbers by dishonest executives, and this didn't get caught until Bush took office and went after Enron, leaving us all wondering - were we really as well off as we thought?
So... The question I have to pose to the author of this piece is, aside from being lucky enough to have been president during a boom in the business cycle, can he name even one single Clinton accomplishment?
And easy seduction of female underlings doesn't count, nor does being impeached.
...or a certain man from Abilene.
Bill Burkett
...and the names of their co-dalliants are well known.
Robin Rather & Mary Mapes
(BTW, is Abe's last name pronounced "cess-pool"?)
We need statesmen.
The history has been written. The best thing that can be said of Clinton is that he is a self-proclaimed cocksman. He had the opportuniy to grasp at greatness and took the lowest possible road. Ask yourself, "What do I think, what comes to mind when Clinton's name comes up?" Answer..Monica. Stained dresses. Felatio while conversing with a sitting congressman. Like it or not he is a caricature of perversion. I also think of how pathetic it is that he could not set aside his libido for the time of his presidency,give up one centilla of concern for his daughter and wife. Does anyone really think he cared for this country more than his next conquest. No. Clinton, despite all of his protestations and that of his sycophants, his is sliding inexorably to become the butt of a joke. Unfortunately, it is at the expense of America.Yes he is a congenital liar. Yes he is the definition of a sociopath. But mostly, don't you really equate Clinton with a sexual predator who preys on young people, college students, the age of his daughter, and picture in your minds eye Clinton desecrating the oval office and the very voters who put him there? He is, and will always be a disgrace to the office of Presidency.
"This positive reporting served to promote the internet speculative market 'bubble', and it served to disguise the danger lurking as americans endured multiple unanswered attacks on US Soil and against interests abroad. Not to mention that the clintonistas deployed troops into more countries than any president in previous history".
It were indeed a "FOOLS' PARADISE"
And these are only the ones we know of, but you forgot Barbra Streisand.
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