Subject: small town boy
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 03:18:27 EST
When I called Clinton a huckster I was not thinking
of his modest start. It was what we saw AFTER he
entered the White House.
Inevitably, what impinged mainly on my outsider's
consciousness were the forays into other people's
affairs - Haiti, Israel, Ireland, the Balkans & the rest
- which were all hailed as the deus ex machina; but
which have left matters quite unchanged or rather
worse.
Again speaking as an outsider, I could not see what
he had accomplished at home either. (If the great
prosperity was the work of any individual it was,
apparently, Alan Greenspan.) What else was there,
apart from the handful of measly items such as those
listed by Sean?
But everything was sold with -a patently cynical -
sincerity that left no sensitive stomach unturned.
Everyone confirms what an extraordinary intelligence
he has: compulsive, as Matt says, scooping up facts & ideas
like a vacuum cleaner. Both Sean & Matt see this as his
greatest quality. That is because they themselves are
extraordinarily intelligent; indeed, the great majority
of intellectuals identify with Clinton & provide all
his best apologias. But you need a more than brains.
I have no idea how to define 'character'. For me,
it involves the way a particular personality brings
about his 'effects' - & the quality of those 'effects'.
FDR had it; Harry Truman had it in spades;
that jowelly, unattractive Nixon had it. Is it
conceivable even the know-nothing (but really
very mysterious) Ron had it? If the Wall had
come down on Clinton's watch can't you already
see the grandeur of St William's Cathedral,
Washington?
Whatever it is, its absence is as obvious as that
curious little pink potato in the centre of his face.
Meanwhile, onwards with one of Daddy's boys.
Where do you get them?
Scottie B.
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