The Politics of Personal Destruction
Try as he might, Bill Clinton can’t help himself.
He knows his legacy is lacking and he knows that his ‘accomplishments’ pale in comparison to President Bush’s accomplishments. How does Clinton revise history? By sending his old foot soldiers out to destroy anyone they don’t like. Here’s a sampling of their turning everything into a political barb:
When he was president, Clinton said, “I believed we needed a network of global cooperation,” before adding: “As we see in Iraq, it’s very difficult to solve complex problems when we are essentially alone.”
Billy Boy, your system of global cooperation resulted in a dozen of Iraq resolutions. It resulted in thousands of women getting marched into rape rooms to have unspeakable things done to them before they were dumped into mass graves, along with hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens.
Global cooperation is nice if the goal is to ‘kick the can’ down the road. It’s a worthless strategy if you need to confront evil men. Thank God that we don’t have a spineless jackass like you leading us in this time of terrorists trying to destroy our civilization.
Former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright talked about how satisfying it was to work for a president who was so knowledgeable and so hardworking, and said she and her colleagues made foreign policy recommendations to him “through consensus, not cabals.” Judging by applause and laughter, the audience caught the reference to a recent speech by a former Bush official complaining that Iraq policy is dictated by a “Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal.”
Ms. Albright, Your cheapshot about “cabals” is silly. It’s drew lots of laughs but it’s stupid to think that the Vice President can hijack foreign policy from a pathetic bureaucrat like Laurence Wilkerson. In your time, you conducted soundbite foreign policy. With Colin Powell and Condi Rice, we’ve finally got substantial people who set brilliant foreign policy.
But even Clinton’s excursion into this bitter past was linked to contemporary politics. He said this week’s election of Democratic governors in Virginia and New Jersey may show that conservative brand of personal attack “does not work anymore.”
After a day filled with personal attacks, Bill steps up and says that conservatives’ personal attacks don’t work anymore. Priceless.
Cross-posted at Let Freedom Ring
November 11th, 2005 at 10:06 am
The right wing makes the Scientologists look like they’re not a cult in comparison.
Look at the very slogan of the site, claiming the conservatives are a majority in California. The delusions know few bounds, obviously - it’s just a cult where the unbelievers are trashed mindlessly.
It’s sad, and worrisome that in a free society such indoctrination occurs.
We saw it with “Do”’s followers to the ride on a comet, with Hitler’s rise.
You can see it in the rank hypocrisy regarding their statements outside of The Ideology, as the only thing that matters is being ‘a loyal member of the movement’; for example, exposing Valerie Wilson deserves praise, not scorn.
Not because there’s any rational basis for the praise but because it was done by a fellow cult member, indeed a leader of the cult, whose excrement smells like sweet roses.
November 11th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Gary - I needent remind you that personal attacks like Craig’s are used when they exhaust intelligent argument.
Warren Christopher was in my chain of command in El Salvador during the Carter Administration. Although I voted for Carter, my front row seat showed me what liberal ineffectiveness looks like. Christopher exascerbated his incompetence as Clinton’s Secretary of State.
Although I have some serious reservations about some of President Bush’s policies, his performance clearly outmatches Clinton’s preoccupation with legacy, interns, and himself.
November 11th, 2005 at 6:25 pm
That wasn’t a personal attack, an ad hominem, it was a legitimate assessment of the reich wing in America that you represent. America is a liberal country and will not tolerate crypto-fascism in any form that it rears it’s ugly head here. Be forewarned, crypto-fascists and theo-fascists, because that’s what you are, and America will have none of what you are selling. Conservatism was always closely allied with fascism and crypto-fascism and conservatism has peaked and failed. You sow hate and hate is what you shall reap and s it has been your undoing.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:15 am
HAHAHAHAHAH!!! What a crock of lies! “President Bush’s accomplishments”?? I DARE you to name ONE. For any one that you may conjure up in that mentally unstable head of yours, I can name at least 10 blunders. Clinton brought all those involved on the first WTC attack to justice, where the hell is Osama?? Need I remind you, Bush took the longest vaccation in presidential history leading up to 9/11 ignoring all terrorist briefings. Bush has broken countless records including our almost $10 TRILLION defecit and what about Katrina? Clinton was remembered for balancing our budget and Bush will be remembered for outrageous spending and utter failure.