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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (5205)	2/12/2002 11:11:52 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

"You've seen him on television, you know what he thinks, he's a serious person," Clinton said of Osama bin Laden. "'Don't tell me about my common humanity, the only thing that matters about me is my difference,'" he said, characterizing bin Laden and others who work from a position of absolute truth. It was only a small step from one tribe of true believers to another: "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't experienced it," Clinton said of the refusal of the Republican Party, from Jan. 20, 1993 to Jan. 20, 2001, to accept the legitimacy of his presidency. The parallel drawn between Republicans and Islamicists -- between those who know the world is theirs by right, and not yours -- was unspoken, and unmissable. salon.com