| Clinton's action in bombing Yugoslavia is indefensible.
If they did it once why not again ? 911 ?
Why they are crazy Yet, almost invariably, these same people, who ought to know better, end up giving voice to some sentiment along lines of "now that we are in there, we have to go the whole way, we have to back up our fighting men," and so on, even if this means sending in ground troops. Invariably, they tell us that if we fail to do so, the United States will lose all its credibility. In other words, our commander in chief has made a tremendous error in committing us to a senseless war which we have no legal or moral right to wage, but we must go along with him to save face. This is moral insanity. .."
C.J. Barr 3/30/99 ‘…
Way back in the November 1994 issue of Reason, Edith Efron asked the intriguing question: "Can the President Think?" Her conclusion was that the president suffers from severe cognitive dysfunction and that the resulting chaos of his mind accounts for the chaos in his administration. In her analysis, Clinton emerges as the sum of two bedeviling paradoxes. The first, the paradox of the Hollow Sun King, refers to the strange emptiness that we perceive at the center of the charismatic Clinton phenomenon. The second, the paradox of the Paralyzed Sprinter, to the utter chaos that reigns at the center of his administration -- and, seemingly, of his mind….. Efron writes of the fragment of stone at the bottom of Stephanopolous' kaleidoscope -- reflecting in a unique way, showing a different facet to each person as Clinton turns. This is a metaphor for the elusive "real Clinton"; but, in truth, there is no real Clinton that we could possibly comprehend. That little fragment is so alien that it might as well not exist in our universe.At the core of this man, Clinton, where the soul is supposed to be, there is, instead, a gaping void. A black hole. The Sun King exists only as the irresistible gravitational pull he exerts on others and the dying light -- the catastrophic annihilation -- of everyone and everything that strays too close to his event horizon. Within, there is an unknowable emptiness…."
Capital Hill Blue 4/8/99 Doug Thompson "...White House staffers, Clinton confidants and others describe Clinton as "incredibly profane" and "an angry man who wants to inflict as much pain as possible on his enemies." Former White House senior staff member George Stephanopoulos in his book, All Too Human, writes about Clinton's mishandling of the Somalia crisis and shows the depth of the President's violent emotions: "'We're not inflicting pain on these #######,' Clinton said, softly at first. 'When people kill us, they should be killed in greater numbers.' Then, with his face reddening, his voice rising, and his fist pounding his thigh, he leaned into Tony [Lake], as if it was his fault. 'I believe in killing people who try to hurt you. And I can't believe we're being pushed around by these two-bit pricks.'" Those who have known Clinton since his days in Arkansas say the quote is "vintage Bill." "Only an idiot would buy the public persona of Bill Clinton," says Walter Erricson, a retired reporter who covered Clinton in his early political days in Arkansas. "He is an incredibly profane individual. He is now and always has been an angry man who wants to inflict as much pain as possible on his enemies." White House staff members say Clinton curses like a sailor, has temper tantrums that cause people to back away from him and uses the word "kill" often to describe what he wants to do with his enemies...."
Capitol Hill Blue (The Rant) 4/13/99 Doug Thompson "...The one word that says it all Contempt. Think about the word. Say it. Contempt. It rolls off the tongue easily when one needs a simple word to describe a complex man like William Jefferson Clinton. Contempt. Contempt for the law. Contempt for the truth. Contempt for decency. Contempt for the Constitution. Contempt for the people who were foolish enough to twice elect him twice to the highest office in the land. Contempt. The defining word for the legacy of Bill Clinton....No number of cruise missiles raining on Eastern Europe can erase this part of history. Clinton can bomb all of civilization back into the stone age and it still won't alter the fact that he is now officially censured, known forever as a man who so blatantly lied under oath that it pissed off a federal judge and she slapped him down for it.....And he may lose his license to practice law in Arkansas, not that anyone ever expected him to return to Arkansas to practice law or anything else. But fines and disbarrment are still overshadowed by that one word. Contempt. The word oozes with the slime that has inundated the White House from the first day Bill Clinton took office, promising the "most ethical administration in history." Six years later, after many investigations, many trials, convinctions of a number of cabinet officials, the "most ethical administration in history" is now laid bare for its contemptible disregard for everything ethical...."
The American Spectator 4/99 John Corry "...Words fail. Things fall apart. The president's apologists made the expected denials, but no one believed them, and even Geraldo Rivera had the grace to look embarrassed. Juanita Broaddrick had caused a problem. The New York Times, for one, tried to ignore it, although later it tried to make amends. It said in an editorial that Bill Clinton in his past confessions had presented himself as a "recreational philanderer," but now it seemed he might be "a serial masher or worse." The wording was close to whimsical - masher had a quaint ring to it - but you could excuse the Times for that. Some things are almost too painful to talk about, and the Times, and all the rest of the press, was having a problem. How do you deal with the idea of having a rapist in the White House? Or must you deal with it at all? .....None of this is promising. It should be obvious by now that Bill Clinton suffers from not merely reckless but clearly compulsive behavior, and that he will, as always, do anything to save himself when he gets in trouble. On the day the Broaddrick story broke in the Journal, the most interesting, and appalling, item on the evening news broadcast was a report by David Martin, the CBS Pentagon correspondent. The White House, he said, wanted to bomb Serbia, even though our NATO allies opposed it. It is to think the unthinkable that the proposed bombing had anything to do with diverting attention from Juanita Broaddrick, of course. The thought is too overwhelming. But it is also unthinkable that we have a rapist in the White House. Who could possibly believe that, either?..."
Strategic Investment Intelligence Bulletins 2/17/99 James Dale Davidson Freeper Ogle ".Jack Wheeler admits he was wrong about Clinton: "He's not a sociopath." In this month's issue of Strategic Intelligence, Jack reports: "On a visit to Canada last month, I read a book review in the Toronto Globe & Mail of British Columbia University Professor of Psychology Robert Hare's Without Conscience. Since I have publicly stated in past columns my agreement with Senator John McCain's assessment of Bill Clinton as a 'sociopath,' it was interesting to note Prof. Hare's careful distinction between a sociopath and a psychopath... Psychopathology is a spectrum, with vicious killers on one end and 'closet psychopaths' on the other. It was the description of the latter that intrigued me: 'Their most pervasive trait is a stunning lack of conscience. They are glib, lack remorse, guilt, or empathy, are emotionally shallow and lie easily and convincingly. Underneath a charming, sometimes irresistibly likeable fa‡ade, the closet psychopath is ruthless, ambitious, selfish, and dishonest. They are social predators who charm and manipulate their way through life, leaving a trail of broken hearts and empty wallets. Power and control are all-important to them, and they will use threats, intimidation, litigation, and violence to get what they want.' A nail-on-the-head of Slick Willie, wouldn't you say? ."
The Progressive Review 4/10/99 Sam Smith "…"Clinton is far more psychologically disturbed than the public ever imagined . ." NEWSWEEK's Michael Isikoff on DATELINE "I think that's an understatement. The suggestion is that this guy is in terrible trouble mentally and psychologically and is a completely hollow narcissist and egomaniac." |