John said:
Huh? Did I dream about hearing names like "Slick Willy" for the previous 8
years?
- John
Actually, "Slick Willie" was coined by Clinton's _Democratic_ opponents in
Arkansas, IIRC. Unsurprisingly, the longer he was in a place, the more he
was disliked. I would actually say that Clinton is sort of outside the
realm of normal political discourse - when you can say of someone that he's
an adulterer, perjurer, debaser of public office, has been credibly accused
of rape, quite possibly launched a military strike against innocent
civilians for political benefit (the Sudan), and definitely turned a blind
eye to genocide in Rwanda because it would have been inconvenient to do
something (see this month's Atlantic) - and you're just repeating the
conventional wisdom among many people in his own party, for goodness sake,
the traditional bounds of civil and uncivil sort of don't apply any more.
Bush isn't perfect, but anyone who thinks he's in the same league of
contemptible behavior as his predecessor just doesn't see the same world I
do, really. There has never been anyone like WJC, and God willing ther
e never will be anyone like him again.
Gautam
