But, Mr. Luker, the professor's subject was assholes and the Clintons were the first thing that came to my mind. The world is full of assholes but they aren't the problem that the Clintons are. Most of us want serious minded persons in the White House and while we seldom get them the Clinton's seriousness is only in profiteering and power. OK, I grant that Bill was also in it for the fun and the sex but Hillary craves power like humans crave air. I'm sorry my comments didn't reach the intellectual level you deem necessary, but it is awkward to speak of assholes, only the most daring of professors would undertake the subject.
Mr. Clayson, I am not a supporter of the Clintons. World history, however, is replete with examples, large and small, of tyrrants and oppressors far, far worse than either of the Clintons could be, by any stretch of the imagination. We try to have serious discussion here. If you're historical sense is so impoverished and your domestic political trigger so half-cocked that you think Professor Grimsley's post was an appropriate place to launch into an anti-Clinton rant, you don't belong here.
Mr. Luker, world history is indeed replete with examples of..."tyrants and oppressors" but the worst of them have litte affect on me, I grant there is some greater residual affect on many people, e.g., there are still people around that survived Hitler and Stalin and their cruelty and wars and there are those who survived Mao's Red Guard. The Clintons are students of history, they, especially Hillary, have studied and used the political machinations of "tyrants and oppressors" plus those of lesser bullies in the socialist inclined cultures of Europe, to gain their end. I innocently believed the revolution our pathetic ragtag anarchists wanted in the 60s had died but I was wrong, it has risen from its ashes in the person of Hillary Clinton. She hasn't adapted the baggy clothing and beret of the Russian revolutionaries and Che Guevera types but if it would help gain votes she would. Professor Grimsley would serve us all better to consider this Clinton inevitable phenomenon rather than discussing assholes at such great length, although I repeat myself. I realize he considers himself at the cutting edge of open debate in discussing assholes, it is kind of cute but not serious.
by Vernon Clayson on October 16, 2007 at 3:12 PM