KWAME
Proves you don't have to be white or a republican to wake up on third base and believe you hit a triple. This guy had it absolutely whipped. Anything good stuck to him like he was velcroed. Anything bad bounced off like he was kevlar. He picked the right father-in-law, the right time to run and the right Gubernatorial candidate to get behind. Heck, I knew Suburban Republicans who really, really liked the guy and thought he was the right leader for the City.
The luxury SUV lease for his wife, courtesy of the city? No big deal....bookkeeping error. The strip club party for his security detail? No proof, other than the testimony of a few disgruntled cops.
With that kind of luck, why not push it? Don't just take a dip in the office talent pool. Don't just text message your horniness. Make sure you do it on a device that's city property so the results are a public record under Michigan law. Then make sure you lose the entire female vote by running off the woman while you do your in-church apology on closed circuit TV (with no annoying reporters around to ask you messy pesty questions.) and remain in office.
I have a friend who's a homicide investigator. He says there's only three things that underlay all murders: Money, Power, Love (he includes revenge for taking any of them away or threatening them in those categories). That would be a pretty good summary of how politicians are disgraced, as well.
Two points off for being weak. Five penalty points for being stupid.
posted by UMRBlog @ 19:08
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How many of those categories apply to WJC?
No points taken off for lying under oath, costing the City of Detroit 9 million dollars? Interesting!
Boston Globe Sunday :
I left the White House, but I'm still here!" Clinton told the crowd. "We're not going anywhere!"
Like most Americans, I was ready for the tawdry psychodrama that was the Clinton administration to be over. But something told me he wasn't being rhetorical.
"He means it," I wrote at the time. "He isn't going anywhere. Yes, he packed his bags, zipped his pants, and turned the White House keys over to the new tenants - but he's still here. There are more grotesqueries to come from our ex-president. There will be more truth-twisting, more money-grubbing, more scandal. Even out of office, he will find seamy new ways to degrade the presidency. Just wait."
So here we are, seven years and one week later, and what do you know - Clinton is back in the news. His angry rants and political attacks have been casting a shadow over the presidential campaign. Once again the only elected president to face an impeachment trial is generating waves of outrage and dismay. A Rip Van Winkle newly awakened from 10 years of slumber wouldn't be surprised to find Clinton under fire for spreading falsehoods and behaving disreputably. But he might do a double-take upon discovering that Clinton's critics aren't Republicans. They are fellow Democrats and liberals recoiling from his attacks on Senator Barack Obama, who has had the effrontery to challenge Hillary Clinton for the presidential nomination.
Last week, Clinton was blasted by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, an Obama supporter, for taking "glib cheap shots" that are "beneath the dignity of a former president." He was excoriated by Ed Schultz, the nation's top liberal radio talk host, for "lying about Barack Obama's record" and "embarrassing" the Democratic Party. Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader who has endorsed Obama, warned that Clinton's "overt distortions" were "not presidential" and could "destroy the party" if not checked.
A past chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party charged the Clintons with practicing the "politics of deception" and likened the former president to Lee Atwater, a Republican operative who became infamous for his ruthless political warfare.
"The Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened," wrote William Greider in a scathing piece for The Nation. "The recent roughing-up of Barack Obama was in the trademark style of the Clinton years in the White House. High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four more years. The thought makes me queasy."
What a pity that liberals and Democrats weren't as plainspoken about the Clintons' shamelessness and dishonesty back in the 1990s. A few were: Former senator Bob Kerrey famously characterized Bill Clinton as "an unusually good liar - unusually good." But all too often the Clintons' habits of mendacity, anger, and self-pity, their constant blame-shifting, their stop-at-nothing pursuit of power were excused or minimized by the left.
America's political culture might never have grown so embittered if Democrats then had been a little more outraged by the Clintons' lack of ethics and a little less zealous about demonizing those who criticized them.
If recent weeks have made one thing clear, it is that the current Clinton campaign is as much about returning Bill to the White House as about making Hillary president.
Bill Clinton's angry outbursts, his lack of self-control, his overpowering presence in the public arena are surely a preview of what a Clinton Restoration would be like. Hillary might be the president, but Bill would still be, as he has always been, the dominant Clinton. To whom would he be answerable in a second Clinton administration? Not to the woman whose political career is a derivative of his, that's for sure.
Hillary likes to claim she is "running to break the highest and hardest glass ceiling," but with Bill back in the White House, would it ever be clear just where the lines of authority really ran? What could possibly check and balance the extraconstitutional power of a presidential spouse who was also a former president? Anytime he wants it, Bill Clinton can have the spotlight. In a revived Clinton presidency, would he be content to remain in his wife's shadow? Or would she continue - as she continues even now - to be in his?
WOW ! Amazing to see war in the dumbocrat ranks
Stir,
With Kwame Living Large, sometimes I just run our of time.
TYFCB
I was born and raised in Detroit, not the burbs' but intercity Detroit. I survived 17 years of Detroit. When I do go back to visit family I go with Blackwater security. I left in 1969 due to a "greeting" from the President. KK has had many role models, Coleman Young, Conyers family.
Like Bill Clinton, Kwame can model for our children how being a philanderer doesn't have to cost you your marriage. Like O.J. Simpson, Kwame can model for our children how being a lawbreaker doesn't have to cost you your freedom. Like Marion Barry, Kwame can model for our children how breeching the public trust and being an ex-con doesn't have to keep you out of government. Kwame has plenty of pioneers to show him the way out of this. Detroit doesn't have the moral backbone to bring him down
Detroit gets exactly what they deserve. A lazy citizen always gets exactly what he or she deserves!!
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