The Ponderosa: Boy Clinton: 1969 Redux

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Boy Clinton: 1969 Redux

Clinton Says Close or Clean Up Guantanamo

LONDON - Former President Clinton said the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay should close or improve its record on prisoner abuse, a British newspaper reported Monday.

Clinton told the Financial Times the camp should "be closed down or cleaned up."

"It is time that there are no more stories coming out of there about people being abused," Clinton told the newspaper.

Clinton spokesman Jim Kennedy said the quotes were accurate.

Former President Jimmy Carter, as well as human rights groups and attorneys, have also called for the camp to be closed down.

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Ah, Clinton and Carter -- neck and neck in the race for most disgraceful ex-presidents in history.

Apparently, for America's first teenaged president, mere "stories" of "people being abused" provide sufficient impetus to undercut -- in the foreign press -- the nation's anti-terror efforts. (Clinton, of course, famously led protests against his country on foreign soil back in 1969.)

One can easily envision Clinton's eyes tearing up, and that patented lip bite as he imagines a young Jihadist, so far from home and his best gals, forced to eat lukewarm rice pilaf.

Can an interview with al Jazeera be far off?

The Ponderosa

Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Boy Clinton: 1969 Redux

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