Ed Cone cites Thomas Friedman’s column in discussion of the ‘dangerous stuff’ that’s being written about our president.
But here’s what jumped out at me when reading Friedman’s column:
Sometimes I wonder whether George H.W. Bush, president “41,” will be remembered as our last “legitimate” president. The right impeached Bill Clinton and hounded him from Day 1 with the bogus Whitewater “scandal.” George W. Bush was elected under a cloud because of the Florida voting mess, and his critics on the left never let him forget it.
I agree, but I’ll submit that Clinton wasn’t legitimately elected, considering the fact that many Americans bought into the sad joke that was the Ross Perot campaign. Anyway, elect a guy like Clinton, and that gets you a guy like W., which eventually gets you a guy like Obama, who’s only been in office for eight months, but it feels like eight years. Makes me shudder to think what eight real years would be like, and just who the hell we’d end up with afterward.
Bonus observation: Note how UNCG econ professor Andrew Broad dismisses the British Bush-assassination flick ‘Death of a President’ by saying “American liberals (or conservatives, for that matter) shouldn’t be held responsible for foreigners’ views about our domestic politics.”
Really? I thought that’s pretty much what liberals do—– hold our country responsible to foreigners’ views about our domestic politics in the ongoing attempt to meet their (supposed) morally superior standard of living?
