G'day Michael, Steven & all - regarding the Clintons, everyone is expecting firework - and rightly so. Rudy is no pushover, but he does have his share of "enemy" b/c of his style [but then, I guess that's part of the charm of being a New Yorker <g>]
Personally, I think time will heal, but it will take a lot of it. The Clintons will not go away. As a matter of opinion, I would go so far as to predict that - unlike Amy Carter - Chelsea Clinton will inherit the wind, long after The First Lady completes her Senatorial duties, if and when she decides to run and wins [hopefully, the Starrs and the Clintons will not play out as the modern day McCoys and Hatfields!]
Does that mean more antagonism? I don't know. But antagonism may very well be the hallmark of increasingly liberal process of democracy, where everyone [under 30 <G>?] has a webpage! But officials are held up with constraints. Gone are the days when the CIA was instrumental in setting up the Peacock throne. Now, one cannot assassinate any foreign leader and there is nothing genuinely covert operations [the local paper today did mention that the US has been talking to many Serbs in the hope of finishing Miloservic once and for all.
Personally, I am not as optimistic as the Dalai Lama
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who believes humanity as a whole is moving in the right direction [my words.] Maybe I ve not sitten on the cushion long enough <VBG>! Still, I do think maybe this is a two-step forward one-step back kind of thing. To say the least, more people are speaking out for Wen Ho Lee, regardless of his guilt or innocence, than when Tsien Hsue- shen was hung out like a piece of red meat
best, Bosco |
