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Immediate response: > President Clinton — young, smart, dynamic, the first president whom I understood politically (one of us, I thought) — demanded that Nixon
by cbd1984 11y ago
Immediate response:
> President Clinton — young, smart, dynamic, the first president whom I understood politically (one of us, I thought) — demanded that Nixon be judged on nothing "less than his entire life and career."
Notice how this is neither a commendation nor an exoneration, attempted or otherwise. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was saying at any given moment, and what those words meant.
Also, this is golden:
> Remember ... the far-right kooks are just like the nuts on the left ... but they turn out to vote.
Thus we have the Southern Strategy, which leads directly into what the GOP is now.
- parennoob 11y ago> Notice how this is neither a commendation nor an exoneration, attempted or otherwise. Love him or hate him, you have to admit that Bill Clinton knew exactly what he was saying at any given moment, and what those words meant. What those words mean is...precisely nothing. So typical of Clinton. Personal opinion, but I think way less of him for saying it that way than a statement which is at least delicately tilted one way. The simple addition of a positive adjective like 'long' or 'great' might have done that.