Zoltan!, what a great column you posted. It's truly enjoyable to read such literary talent. My favorite parts, which had me RFLOL:
from Has the cookie crumbled for Bill Clinton?
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Washington
"...Returning after a year in Britain, I am
dumbfounded by the insurgent mood of the
Washington media. Indeed, it is downright
putschist. Former cheerleaders for the Clinton
White House are on the television every night
fulminating against the President, cursing him with
the fury of the betrayed.
The bureau chiefs for the great metropolitan
newspapers and political weeklies shake their heads wearily at
suggestions that Mr Clinton can somehow mount a defence against
perjury by quibbling over the nature of sex acts, whether performed
with or without cigars. As for the idea of a fresh Oval Office address
to the nation, a new improved apology to show that he is genuinely
sorry this time, they smile knowingly at the naivity of such an absurd
gambit. Mr Clinton's problems have moved beyond public relations...
"This will require personal sacrifice and may even require his
resignation, but would fulfil the President's most important oath, to
preserve and protect our nation," [Sam Nunn] wrote. In other words: be gone from here, you cad, before we have you tarred and feathered and
ridden out of town on a rail." |
