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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (125760)	2/7/2001 9:27:57 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

A veritable cornucopia. And now that Clinton is out of power those that defended him are letting loose with their disdain: Revenge of the Defenders By Marjorie Williams Wednesday, February 7, 2001; Page A19 In relocating to New York, Bill Clinton has chosen a town full of people who were willing to overlook a little perjury but who firmly draw the line at free flatware. The former president's new city has turned on him with a vengeance. Even Geraldo Rivera is calling his recent actions "unseemly." The New York Times opines that "Bill Clinton's leavetaking from the White House set a new benchmark for bad judgment by a departing president." And nowhere is the reaction more furious than among upper-crust New York Democrats, the crowd on whom Bill and Hillary had counted for a warm, sympathetic Big Apple welcome.... ...But above all, the normal temperature shift that comes with the loss of power has been compounded by the effort it took to ignore or defend or at least tolerate the Clintons' earlier bad behavior. Those who defended Clinton through his ordeal-by-independent-counsel had to perform extraordinary contortions of moral and logical reasoning. The piling-on of the past two weeks is the displaced revenge of those who spent years denying the undeniable and defending the indefensible. It's still not the fashion to talk about this. Notice how, in all this outrage over coffee tables and fugitive tax cheats, the news that Clinton had finally acknowledged lying in a court of law sank almost without a trace. In truth, the manner of the Clintons' departure told us exactly nothing that we hadn't known about them before. Their sudden vilification is just the dropping of the other shoe, the anger and the judgment and the disbelief that were willingly suspended by all who helped shore up his presidency. It's not as if he doesn't deserve it, but let's not pass around the merit badges for moral delicacy, either, just because it finally feels safe to notice. washingtonpost.com