Posted on 05/15/2012 8:14:27 PM PDT by doug from upland
The cover of this week’s GLOBE reveals that "Bill and Hillary – The Final Split." Globe has the shocking details of how Hillary is moving in with a woman.
Over the past several years there have been rumours that the Clinton marriage was in name only and in fact they were essentially leading separate lives.
In detail, GLOBE claims that Hillary, 64, who was recently in South America for the Sixth Summit of the Americas, made the most of the country’s nightlife at Café Havana. She was at the salsa hotspot, and Hilary was seen dancing with her hands in the air and swigging back a bottle of beer while surrounded by friends. According to Globe the partying was Hilary celebrating that she finally kicked Bill to the curb.
Many believe Hillary only stayed in her marriage to Bill after the Monica Lewinsky scandal as a way of keeping or even fostering her own political influence.
You are very well read. I know nothing more of Machiavelli, but the term itself. You inspire me to at least search out his name, for a crash outline of his musings. Solzhenitsyn is such a hero for us. And of course the much loved C.S. Lewis. Thank you.
Machiavelli is largely misunderstood but his writing is still relevant to politics and power today. Both Hitler and Stalin had his book by their bedside. Most politicians who want power do.
Machiavelli was a “history nut”. He was extremely well read and understood how to get and keep power like no one since. His genius was not so much in promoting evil to get power-—which his name implies—but it was his observation of all people who were successful-—how they accomplished it and why people failed in getting power or keeping it.
I took a class on him and read some of his writings. In his Discourses on Livy—he thought the best form of government was a Republic. He also stated that if a person wanted to keep power, they had to have a military—and that military had to be “Virtuous” ,otherwise, the military wouldn’t be loyal to the leader and could usurp power or be sloppy and ineffective.
This speech is one of my favorite on Solzhenitsyn. He was so wise, also. He was shelved by the leftists, because he saw through them and voiced it.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html
Cheers!
Thank you Oratam! I’ve been gone for sometime and didn’t get to my pings.
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