Is This A Dagger That I See Before Me?
I’ve spent the week since coming home from Milwaukee shuttling between two clients, each of which has a new bookkeeper/accounting manager for me to train, support and comfort. Indications are that both will survive my tuition and succeed anyway.
For reading, I’ve been pecking away at a couple of back issues of the New York Review of Books that have been lying around here. I feel compelled to pass on this excerpt. Admittedly, it doesn’t have much, if anything, to do with the process of governing, but it does add a dimension to Bill Clinton that takes me a little bit by surprise. I’m hard-pressed to imagine anything remotely similar happening in a receiving line with the current White House occupant.
Biding my time until we take burnin’ wood to the dunce inane.
Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff.
That is quite a moment. The intellectual gulf between Clinton and Bush is immense, and this just adds to the distance. Interesting question about the object of ambition and ethics. I miss Bill, and Hillary is no substitute. The obviousness of her ambitions shows a lack of skill, poetry, and soul
Robin, in fairness, Clinton learned this stuff while on a draft-dodging junket to England (on a Rhodes scholarship, but still…), while at the same time GWB was
snortingserving his country honorably in the Texas National Guard.Thank you for saying what needed to be said. Namely, that the George W. Bush Library will consist of mostly coloring books. Going to college isn’t draft-dodging and if it is, we should likewise label Cheney, Rove and Ashcroft as draft-dodgers. Anyway…I thought all the real dodgers left the country. GWB didn’t serve his country at all because he couldn’t manage to show up to complete his duty nor take the medical exam. Probably because he would pee stems and leaves. That is all.
Holy crap. I was never one of those people in love with Bill. But, dang, he can move back in any time.
Well, to be honest, I COULD see Bush recitin’ somethin’ from Green Eggs and Ham.
Just sayin’….
Wordgirl, my tongue was planted firmly in my cheek in my prior comment.
Birdie, don’t underestimate his love for My Pet Goat.
Shoot. I’m behind in everything…
I can’t believe you’ve read the last piece in the last, particularly long, issue.
Me, I can’t muster any admiration for Bill Clinton at the moment because I just finished Stephen Kinzer’s review of several books on Rwanda (no. 5) and it seems that Clinton is now offering less-than-critical support for Kagame (in an effort to atone for his sins?).
But if Shakespeare did believe “Bloody instructions which, being taught, return To plague th’inventor” and that wicked deeds are punished, I wonder what would he make of the US today where no one seems to be held accountable for nothin’?