It seems as if Bill Clinton is everywhere these days, even at events for which he can’t charge a six figure speaking fee. Later this month MSNBC will run a special where they anoint him “The President of the World”. In this regard, Clinton follows a line of Democrats who seem to be better ex-presidents than presidents. Exhibit A in this gallery would be Jimmy Carter.
I wonder why this is. Perhaps it’s because Clinton and Carter both left office while still relatively young and vigorous. It could also be that their presidencies were viewed by them as huge missed opportunities.
But with Bill Clinton I can’t help think of what might have been. He entered the White House with an extremely high energy level and a strong level of executive competence. Despite nagging concerns about his womanizing, hopes were high (at least in some quarters) at the beginning of his administration.
He also started his presidency with a solid bloc of voters who were against him and everything he stood for. They would have liked nothing better than to make him a one term president.
Clinton gave his enemies all the ammunition they needed by having his infamous affair with a White House intern. His actions effectively shut down the remaining years of his presidency. While broadcast radio was becoming increasingly sordid due to the rise of Howard Stern type shock jocks, the last thing America needed was the occupant of the Oval Office making Altoid and cigar sex easy fodder for late night comedians.
Perhaps Clinton’s latest round of do-gooding is meant as recompense for how he blew it for the American people. With Clinton one never knows. But seeing the stature and respect he has attained on the world stage makes one realize even more that when he had his one chance to do great things for the American public, he let us down.
Bill Clinton deserves much credit for being the last pesident to balance the budget and for his welfare reform. He deserves castigation for giving us NAFTA which has led to an increased trade deficit with Mexico and Canada and hundreds of thousands of jobs going to Mexico from the United States. Our present recession and 9% unemploymen can be laid partially on Clinton since each one hundred million dollars of trade deficit means the loss of a million jobs. However he should really be in jail now for taking a bribe of at least 3 million dollars, for his library, in exchange for pardoning Marc Rich who fled the U.S. rather thab face trial. It is unheard of to pardon a person who flees when facing a criminal trial. There are inspectors all over America in jail for taking a few hundred dollars in bribe money. Clinton on the other hand, gets six figure apeaking fees.
We have reached the zenith of corruption in our so-called democratic society when the elite thief goes free while the common thief is jailed.
Posted by Irving Gerber | February 8, 2011, 8:32 pmIt not so much this life /that Bill being
judged but rather /that of previous lifes.
Throughtout ones many lifes /one build a
spiritual account. //In the case of Bill
he earned a healthy spiritual account in
previous lifes. He having won the hearts
of people ( and once one wins the hearts
of people such love is never /never lost.
Thus to put it simply Bill can get away
with murder. // The only thing that can
bring his downfall // being if other…
highly developed spiritual souls // see
his behaviour as extreme & turn against
him // rebuke /as condemn his behaviour.
His (behaviour)having never ventured to
the point that such warning being given.
Though be it known /one’s conduct noted.
If such needed/future lifes in bringing
will have more testing times as lessons
being learnt in humility as compasssion.
In the case of Bill /it by far the best
leave passing judgement to the Almighty.
Posted by william wallace | February 10, 2011, 4:21 am