[lit-ideas] Re: Yahoo! Traitors with Clinton Sidebar
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:48:24 -0500
Julie K:
> Who is the most recent President you respect, Mike? I'm truly curious.
Recent? I was brought up to genuflect at the name of FDR.
Ike? Didn't he play golf? I hate golf.
JFK? A rich boy who was willing to end the world -- thank god Khrushchev
wasn't ready to die. And I never have liked Camelot, sentimental schlock.
LBJ? I respected Lyndon Johnson greatly. If he had had to courage to withdraw
from Vietnam and concentrate his energies and monies on the War on Poverty,
this would be a different USA today. But he didn't. Too bad.
I have enormous respect for Jimmy Carter as an ex-President. He's almost a
latter day St. Francis. But his presidency never gelled.
Reagan? Wasn't that a great eight years for the aspirations of rich white men!
G H W Bush? -- no there there.
Clinton? A great mind. But a moral coward. Pity.
G W Bush? The most pathetic of them all.
So, no one I guess. LBJ could have been a giant had he not cut his own legs
off in Vietnam.
Mike Geary
Memphis
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Julie Krueger
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Date: 9/21/05 5:47:58 P.M. Central Daylight Time
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> It doesn't change that Clinton did a magnificent job of running the
> country, even in the face of mind bending hostility throughout his term.
> He's a policital genius.
I'm not sure I agree with you that Bill Clinton is a political genius, after
all, he did lose control of Congress after two years in office. He let that
weasel little twit Newt Gringrich set the theme and tone of the mid-term
elections. Nor do I have much regard for Clinton's accomplishments in
office. To be fair, I admit that I'm on the left end of the left end of
liberalism. Clinton's liberalism seems much more in line with Rockefeller
Republicanism than mainstream Democratic Party policies. As a moral man
Clinton has always struck me as very ordinary -- venal, vain, lecherous,
ambitious -- like most of us. He is said to be very impressively
intelligent. I have no reason to doubt that. But intelligence without
courage and conviction is a waste it seems to me. Clinton did nothing to
garner support for health care reform -- he should have moved mountains if
necessary. He would abandon his appointees and supporters at the first hint
of opposition, among them: Joycelyn Elders his Surgeon General and Lani
Guinier, nominated for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. I
opposed Clinton's support for NAFTA AND GATT. I think his dismantling of
the welfare system in this country was morally bankrupt, his failure to act
to stop the genocide in Rwanda was criminal. Had the Republicans -- almost
to the man -- not been even more morally repugnant in their policies, and
their attacks on Clinton so despicable and hypocritical, I would have thrown
rotten eggs at the man. As it is, I shake my head in sorrow, what a waste
of talent and intellect.
Mike Geary
higher hopes for Hillary
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