I heard Clinton's voice for the first time -really- at the barbershop on Wed. I thought he was labeled a great speaker --his accent is one thing, but the resonance I expected was more nasal and hard (despite the fact he was on the attack). one thing was immediately apparent from his body language --mean, a wounded jackal, and the ominous signs of a dirty fighter just below the surface. he should have been a circus barker or patent medicine hawker. I dont remember what Clinton said as it was just the usual accusations of persecution. a made for TV president? I suppose, when you consider what TV, the potentially great teacher, degenerated to: nothing more than bread and circi, gladiators and moral decadence. the average six year old has seen 2,000 murders, many of the graphic --and then we wonder why the current generation has no concept of the value of life, or that death and sex are easy and maybe interchangeable? I read part of Clinton's text --no speech writer in Washington, even the real slime-balls, even James Carville, would, on camera, skirt the whole issue, not even admitting to the concept of a sexual affair; dismissing the faked apology in 30 seconds and then spending 3 1/2 minutes in a fierce, partisan, false-premise attack on Starr. there was a NYTimes story on Jordon. apparently Jordon dropped a bomb with the grand jury stating he had been deceived by Clinton. likewise, Betty Currie hung him out to dry and that she had been used. Jordon was not willing to take the fall for Slick Willie, or even be a part of deception. Jordon has been around too long, and is a respected part of the Washington legal crowd (well, as respectable as lawyers can ever be...). Betty Currie, black, is known as a Christian, righteous and dependable, the last stop before the boss for years --she came with Clinton from Arkansas. that man is dangerous.... Ambrose Evans-Price is back in Washington --I suppose for the kill; expect him to really start digging again to finish his prior work. Bubba is a 3 year old who has had a toy (which he stole from a 2 year old) taken away from him, and is truculently throwing his tantrum as if his g_d-given rights to rape, pillage, and burn were being trampled. I have subscribed to the oft stated presumption that Clinton is an illegitimate Rockefeller --Lawrence, Winthrop's brother. Hot Springs and the countless door openings. the story of a William Blake, a traveling salesman, was pure swamp-water; they picked Blake since he was dead --remember the second half-brother (paternal) which turned up right after election whose mother actually was married to Blake --sure like to see a DNA comparison. As a pure Poor Southern White (trailer) Trash, Clinton would never have been given the opportunities he received. Bubba has the strange mix of the trailer trash he really is and the connections of the Rockefellers. Clinton is not the only extremely intelligent child to grow up in an Arkansas trailer park, but he is probably is the only one to do more than wear his CAT or Mack cap backwards. my friend, foreign correspondent Eric Margolis said yesterday: A number of readers have reminded me I predicted four years ago Clinton would be undone by personal scandals in his second term. I didn't need a crystal ball. Having observed Clinton's career since he followed me by two years at Georgetown University, I knew he was a ruthlessly ambitious politician, whose utter lack of honesty, character, or honor would one day bring him low. consider the book Primary Colors, of which (joe?) Klein has been unmasked as the writer: it exposes the total lack of character in both Bill and Hillary --total amorality, riding scandal after scandal with plausible denials. affair after affair... and there is a white-black child in Australia, but the mother is silent --money or fear? more DNA anyone? someone else made the comment that the women consider him a likable rogue --soap opera. Clinton plays the women like violins, pressing all the hot buttons of the 25-45 class and they give him a 20-25% edge, a figure quoted by many polls and, of course, it was enough to dump "just plain ol' dull George". Margolis made another interesting (and obvious) comment: Far from the wronged, last-to-know wife, Hillary Clinton is an Arkansas Lady Macbeth. She is the guiding force behind the Clinton presidency, who accepts her husband's sleazy infidelities as a price of power. Mrs Clinton's ardent left-liberal views did not deter her from taking $100,000 in commodity payoffs from big business, spearheading the Whitewater land fraud, hiding documents from government investigators, terrorizing White House employees, or amassing illegal files on Republicans. nothing we have not known, but better stated. a way of life... can you even consider the Clintons a dysfunctional family? --it's more like something out of Charles Adams. Angela Houston played the perfect Hillary, and her sleazy husband fits Bill. it makes you wonder about Chelsea. there she was on the tarmac with her father, ugly as ever, but up front. she may have looked like she had been whupped by an ugly stick (normal), but she sure wasn't hiding --how can she return to Stanford this fall? being the daughter of a sitting President isn't easy --but Chelsea? (...and we thought Amy had a tough time...). more Margolis: The Clintons haven't yet been caught red-handed because they are both lawyers, the curse of modern America. Both knew precisely how to conceal their questionalble dealings behind an impenetrable smokescreen of legal ambiguities, how to skirt the law and avoid open illegality, to never leave written evidence. That's why the Special Prosecutor, Judge Starr, has had such a difficult time in untangling the Gordian Knot of the Clinton's finances... "...lawyers, the curse of modern America" --yes, the U.S. has honed their skill to a new and deeper cesspool, but the lawyers have been with us from antiquity --the Pharisees, for instance. well, let's see if my 1986 prediction, even before the name Clinton burst upon the national political scene, falls into place. Bush could very well be the last U.S. president to finish his elected term. any way the game plays out now is a potential disaster. Clinton is not going to leave office willingly or voluntarily and Hillary's FBI files will just be a beginning for the Republicans --even the NYTimes and Washington Post will end up looking like the National Enquirer in this blood bath. a) impeachment: James Carville will have a field day opening the Congressional sewer. Clinton will still be commander-in-chief and the U.S. will quickly be in a foreign war which will bring actual warfare to the American land. if Al Gore, with his unfolding problems, moves to 1600 Pennsylvania, the welfare state will roll out of the garage and take off --the military falling into disarray, unprepared and unsupplied to keep the lid on Pax Americana. America is not loved, probably not even by the Brits as they hang in there now since they need the company while they play standoff with the EC. b) assassination: I dont think the country could survive another one, and the results following the chaos would be the same. c) accident: there is a joke running around about Clinton visiting a class room and asking if anyone knew what a 'tragedy' was. the first child suggested when a friend is run over on a bike. Clinton said no, that would be an 'accident'. a second child suggested when a school bus went over a cliff. Clinton said no, that would be a 'great loss'. finally, a child said that a 'tragedy' was if an airplane carrying Bill and Hillary crashed and they were killed. Clinton said that yes, that would be a 'tragedy' and asked the child why that would be a 'tragedy'. "Simple", said the child, "it wouldn't be an 'accident' and it certainly would not be a 'great loss'". this begs the old joke of how do you create a "flood"...? Janet Reno has been protecting Al Gore for some several years, but the pot is beginning to show foul smelling fistules. the campaign funds sleeze which oozes out of that pot will cripple the Democratic party --the fund swapping with the Teamster president's election fund alone is pure racketeering, while the Chinese connections are treasonous. and the Democrats will retaliate in kind. you cant vote the politicians out of office --the inbred two-party (supposedly) system is self-sustaining with reformers learning very quickly that reelection is dependent on playing the line, with few notable exceptions. this collection of power hungry thieves drops sleeper legislation into unrelated laws, legislation which now brings us a national ID card by fall 2000, complete with biometrics, credit record, driving record, criminal record, medical record, and whatever else they want to slide in --the mark of the beast is upon us and "the number of the beast is six hundred three score and six". [RV 13:15-18] the American people can not win a war against Washington; Clinton and friends would not hesitate to use UN troops against American targets; and who can supply a rebel army today? is Russia going to help the "patriots" with arms and supplies and provide the clandestine radio/TV facilities? besides, Clinton's Gestapo is root out and exterminating the militias. militias composed today of only of the foolish brave. that leaves massive civil disobedience --such as withholding taxes. but joe six pack and friends are never going to accept what that means --the destruction of the U.S. infrastructure and the consequent invasion of America by her "friends" to divvy up the spoils and subjugate what's left of the population --probably less than 50 million when the cities collapse and are wasted. unfortunately, joe six pack will be trying to tune in another sitcom when it all collapses --when the cold beer runs out, he will only be confused. pessimism? I dont think so. the question is "when?" the cards are all on the table: world economics, Islamic jihad (the cruise missiles coalesced the divergent groups into even more hatred), irresolvable corruption in virtually all national governments: total instability in Russia, the Japanese "house of cards" with a gangster compromised political system which will not force the changes required, and China about to pay the piper for her financial cronyism. the "conspiracy" theorists have no clue. there is no conspiracy. it's nothing more than greedy men around the world, in concert with corrupt governments who have taken away any semblance of civilization's morality. the worldwide unfunded paper credit is bigger than even the central bankers can even conceive, let alone handle; it is estimated that 80% of the float is in paper copies of credit card debt and checks traversing the system. a 10% loss is enough to level most balance sheet. even Microsoft with its ill-gotten filthy lucre could not sustain a 20% write off, or an 80% collapse. a global crash this time around will cripple mankind, plunging the globe into starvation and disease as the infrastructure implodes. the U.S. is the most vulnerable --how many can be supported in the population centers? who survives? probably less than 1% of the urban population --lack of water, food, and sanitation; the last is the real killer. much of the third world lives in squalor; but their mortality rate will only be set back 50 years. armies move on their stomachs and require enormous supply trains of food and ammo. America settled two European wars (plus the Japanese) by being able to feed and arm both our armies and those of of our allies. consider that _one_ production line in Southern California was cranking out a new B29 every 30 minutes --48 per day-- that's production, and Rosie the Welder. and the knowledge, in wartime Germany, of another B29 every 30 minutes --from one line, was was demoralizing as the payloads were devastating. you cant do that when your infrastructure is being bombed by the continuous flow of more and more U.S. B24s and B29s --ask Germany. and then people wonder why I live in the Intermountain Empire --but probably not far enough from its borders. attila out... rant mode off.