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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (193781)	10/19/2001 7:26:12 PM
From: D.Austin	Respond to of 769667

Great choice TP-Robert Reno credible FAR LEFT spinner.He fits right in with your irreversible hatred. It's Too Much To Hope We've Heard Enough Robert Reno February 15, 2001 AS PRESIDENT Dwight Eisenhower prepared to depart office, a bunch of wealthy businessmen undertook to stock his farm in the manner benefiting a Gettysburg country squire. It was as unseemly as it was legal and, viewed historically, is all part of a trend line in which outgoing presidents-with increasing boldness-do things we wish they hadn't. The exception who tends to prove this rule is Jimmy Carter whose most visible activity has been actually participating in building homes for poor people. Still, vacant-eyed Clinton-haters insist his departure from office was unique, not just a progressive process by which money-the love of it and the need to raise it-has increasingly dominated and contaminated the lives of our ex-presidents. As for malodorous presidential pardons, until Marc Rich came along, what smelled more than Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon or the elder George Bush's pardon of the generous Republican benefactor, Armand Hammer? Is Clinton's pardon of a fugitive private citizen really more appalling than Bush's wholesale pardon of the Constitution-trashing Iran-contra gang, some of whom hadn't even been tried yet? We can only imagine how embarrassing their court testimony would have been to the Bush administration and to Bush himself. Our capacity to be disappointed by the behavior of departing presidents has already been tested by Ford's shameless milking of his brief presidency as an automated teller machine that spurts out huge fees for utterly unmemorable speeches. The California mansion into which the Reagans moved in 1989 was financed by helpful contributors. It's hard now to imagine Ulysses Grant, in debt, dying of cancer, painfully dictating his memoirs to provide for his survivors. The two volumes were critically acclaimed for their humor and candor and earned his heirs $450,000, a fortune in 1885. They glow in comparison with some of the self-justifying rubbish recent presidents have hired ghost writers to type for them. I guess it was too much to expect that the pathology of the swooning Clinton-haters would expire with his term. Now the garden toad of American politics, Dick Morris, says Hillary Clinton took unreported gifts including "five beautiful dresses" from the king of Morocco. Morris' story collapsed when subsequent reporting revealed four were returned to the king and a fifth was sent off to mildew in the National Archives. George W. Bush gallantly denied the Clintons stripped Air Force One of all its glasses and coffee cups. "Simply not true," the new president said, as if that was enough to dispel any of the most absurd calumnies their drooling enemies will continue to invent. 'Our capacity to be disappointed has already been tested.'