Comments on: Not Too Swift

By: Yehudit

Yehudit — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:36:32 +0000

My theory about Bill Clinton is that in the privacy of the voting booth, he voted for Bush. And not because he wants Hillary to run in 08, but because he knows that Bush was right about Iraq and Kerry would have been a disaster.

Clinton had the invasion scenario sitting on his desk since at least 1998. He couldn’t invade Iraq because he expended his political captital on the Balkans. His people briefed Bush’s people. He knew all the intel.

If you watch Clinton’s behavior during the presidential race last summer and fall, he was doing everything he could to approve of Bush short of coming out and telling people to vote for him. (Lieberman too.)

By: Brown Line

Brown Line — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:53:23 +0000

PeterUK asks, “if [Clinton] is that smart why did he marry Hillary?” There’s an old joke that answers that question.

Bill and Hillary are out driving, and pull into a gas station for some fuel. The pump jockey starts cleaning the windshield, when he notices Hillary. “Hillary?”, he cries, “How are you? It’s been a long time!” The man and Hillary chat for moment, then he goes to fill the tank. Bill, who’s been fuming during all this, snaps, “Who’s that?” “Oh, that’s Bob,” Hillary replies. “He and I dated. In fact, I was thinking of marrying him at one time.” Bill smirks. “Well, I’m sure you’re glad you didn’t. After all, you could have been married to a gas-station attendant, and instead you’re the wife of the president of the United States.” “Bill,” Hillary replies, “If I had married Bob, Bob would be president of the United States and you would be the one pumping gas.”

By: gumshoe

gumshoe — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:59:13 +0000

“Wow, C, if you read only the boldtype you’d hafta figure she was talking about the Clinton administration.”

-Kyda S.

after reading Rick B’s post

re: Saul Alinsky and his “Rules for Radicals”,

i hopped over to several websites

for some back-story….

the phrase that kept popping into my head

while reading was the favorite Clintonite line…

“the politics of personal destruction”

and then this little gem from Mr Alinsky:

“One of the criteria for picking the target is the target’s vulnerability … the other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract.?

reap what you sow/hall of mirrors/glass houses and all that.

great posts,C and Rick B.

-gumshoe

By: Buddy Larsen

Buddy Larsen — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:46:39 +0000

Correction, Gore tested at 1,300 IQ.

By: jerry

jerry — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:02:59 +0000

The fall back position that the grades don’t matter because he may have had other things on his mind doesn’t cut it. As I recall, there was some interesting entries in the Blogosphere last fall on Kerry’s AFQT. His scores would indicate that his IQ was around 120 vice W’s upper 120’s. All the evidence suggests that Kerry is not as intelligent as Bush. The argument about poor grades and intelligence may be more applicable to Gore. I recall that there was an actual IQ test for Gore and it was in the 130s.

Damn the Quadrenial Defense Review. It has kept me away from posting….

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:54:30 +0000

Richard:

You took my overly long Kerry like post and summed it up perfectly in two sentences. Salute!

By: jerry

jerry — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:49:55 +0000

Kerry demonstrates the difference, even before grade inflation, between the vaunted Ivy League and the Public Ivies. Kerry would have flunked out of my Alma Mater, THE University of Illinois, in his Freshman year. It was, and still is, virtually impossible to flunk out of most private intstitutions, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc. The top public institutions produced far better baby boomer students then the Ivies. They operated on pure Darwinism. Work hard, learn the subject and get good grades or get out.

By: richard mcenroe

richard mcenroe — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:48:12 +0000

Kevin P — In Chuck Jones’ autobiography, he repeats his father’s description of the speechifyin’ of Warren G. Harding as “a hippotamus wallowing in molasses.” Sound familiar?

By: Captain Hate

Captain Hate — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 23:11:01 +0000

This is great; I have a new way to remember D Day.

By: Kevin P

Kevin P — Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:46:24 +0000

now