“From behind the benign facade and the tranquilizing smile, the real Bill Clinton emerged Sunday during Chris Wallace’s interview on Fox News Channel. There he was on live television, the man those who have worked for him have come to know — the angry, sarcastic, snarling, self-righteous, bombastic bully, roused to a fever pitch. The truer the accusation, the greater the feigned indignation. Clinton jabbed his finger in Wallace’s face, poking his knee, and invading the commentator’s space…. One also has to wonder when the volcanic rage beneath the surface of this would-be statesman will cool. When will the chip on his shoulder finally disappear? When will he feel sufficiently secure in his own legacy and his own skin not to boil over repeatedly in private and occasionally even in public?” –Dick Morris, former Clinton adviser, writing in The Hill newspaper.
HP, Please don’t tell me you take Dick Morris seriously! Especially on the subject of the Clintons. I’m sure you’re aware of Morris’ background. The man was a chip on his shoulder the size of Mount Rushmore regarding the Clintons.
Clinton answered the question both with facts and with recriminations. No doubt he should have stuck to the facts and foregone the attacks against Fox/Wallace. That having been said, I think his behavior was understandable (though still not appropriate)given the recent “Path to 9/11″ controversy. The guy is human and I’d be upset too after that hatchet job.
I like Dick Morris, sure he doesn’t like the Clintons, but I have no reason to believe he is all out lying and he did spend a large part of the Clinton presidency (and even Clinton governorship, and before) with the Clintons, so he has more inside information into how Clinton really is than most other people.
Btw, notice the difference between Clinton and Reagan? Remember, in Reagan’s time all MSM tended to lean liberal, and yet you never see Reagan acting like Clinton - even when everybody was making Reagans foreign policy look like it was a failure. You can’t fake class…
That’s because Reagan was a drooling, incoherent mess for at least the last third of his time in office and all of the years between 1988 and his death.
Just curious, do you ever think for yourself and write original material or do you only link to articles that already confirm your narrow and intellectually lazy world view?
HP, you’re way out on the edge here. The relationship of Dick Morris to the Clintons is roughly the equivalent of an ex-wife to an ex-husband. Yes, it’s true that the ex-husband has “more information into how [their ex-spouse] is”, but you would have to be crazy to believe that that information is coming from an un-biased source.
When I hear the word “Clinton” come out of Dick Morris’ mouth, I stop listening. Morris is already pretty freaky, add the topic of the Clintons to that and you have a real mess.
Robert,
Not so, Reagan didn’t start to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease until roughly 6 years after he left office - the exact same time that Clinton has been out of office. Nonetheless, compare Clinton (and Carter, for that matter) to how George H. Bush and Ford responded to criticism - and this when the MSM media was overwhelmingly liberal.
To answer your second question, I am a conservative Hispanic remember? While I may cut and paste alot of what I post on my website, the mere fact that I am statistically very different from my peers testifies that - while I may be wrong - I am indeed the independent thinker, not those who follow the fray like sheep.
LaurenceB,
You are right, Morris and the Clintons are alot like an estranged wife to her husband, and maybe I should add that whenever I quote Morris in the future…but, also an important difference is that Morris is doing so in a public venue. You would think that if he was lying and making things up he would be more reluctant to do so in the public sphere, after all, his reputation is on the line and if lying it could be easily corrected by others. In addition, Morris is merely reaffirming what others have already said and what can be verified independently not stating something new, or do you disagree that Clinton, during the Fox News Wallace interview showed the world to be - atleast at that moment - an “angry, sarcastic, snarling, self-righteous, bombastic bully, roused to a fever pitch”?
Ah, but you put too much value on labels. I’m a moderate, legal resident of America, with a Mexican mother and a British father, raised mainly on an Island that is called “West Indian.”
Extremes of any label are dangerous if they’re not met with thought and consideration. And your beloved Reagan showed signs of mental decline as early as 1984.
You seem to embrace a a classical Conservatitism, but fail to see that the modern GOP is anything but. Think, and you shall be free.