A sad verdict
Jonah Goldberg outlines a tough way for a 60 year old to be thought of:
she’s tried to be hawk and dove, idealist and pragmatist, martyr and hero. But unlike her husband — a jazz impresario of people-pleasing prevarication — she’s a terrible liar. She comes across as calculated because that’s all that’s left to her: calculation.
Jesse Jackson once famously said that Bill Clinton had no core beliefs, he was simply “appetite” all the way down. That appetite seems to have become community property in the Clinton household, such as it is.
Obama is surging because Democrats want idealism and hope. Hillary has jettisoned her idealism, and she’s filed down her hope to mere yearning.
“she’s filed down her hope to mere yearning.” Such a sad statement about a human life.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:08 am
The Americans do so love a rogue and just the chance he’ll become a Supreme Court Justice beckons seemingly irresistably. It’s almost deliciously absurd and in reach. When he leaves though, he’ll run off with half the law library and a few of the clerks. All in all, it will be most entertaining don’t you think?
December 20th, 2007 at 8:23 am
You have got to be kidding. I can understand, but not accept, Alcee Hastings being allowed to serve in Congress. It’s not like the Congress lacked other, equally unprincipled, men and women.
A disbarred lawyer on the Supreme Court? One could hardly imagine a more corrosive move. If I wanted to create more contempt for the law, I’d nominate Bill Clinton for the Court.
The Court has already proven themselves fools of the first order. Roe v Wade. Kelo. McCain-Feingold. These people have proven themselves incapable of reading and understanding the Constitution. They are not unelected kings. The law cannot function, society itself cannot function, when people disrespect and disobey the law.