TwoSparkles
35. Look at the pictures of the Clintons...
...when they were in college. They were very liberal, very anti-establishment and anti-war.
I love those early pictures of the Clintons.
Although I think the Clintons began their political years very liberal and optimistic, something really dysfunctional seemed to creep into the lives and transform them. The grinding gruel of politics seemed to roughen them up and Bill's infidelity, I believe, tore Hillary Clinton apart.
She sacrificed so much for Bill. She was the graduation speaker at Wellesley and her first job after law school was working on the Nixon impeachment hearings. She could have gone anywhere and had any job in her field that she desired. She gave it up to go to po-dunk Arkansas, put it all on hold and prop up Bill's political career. His affairs left her bitter and full of a sense of entitlement. It was as if she decided that one day she would attain whatever she wanted politically- and that was her entitlement--because of everything she sacrificed and endured.
I think it's a tragic story, because I think the Clinton's fed off of each other's dysfunction and that's when the corruption crept in. They lost themselves.
Those two young people in the pictures are long gone.
By the time they got to Washington, they had all ready sold out--even if they did still hold onto some liberal social ideals. The neocons folded the Clintons into the fray. After Bush became President, the Clintons still wanted to play--and they're just as much a part of the corporate elite as Bush, Cheney, Lieberman, Baker and the rest of the power players. Clinton played along--and practically remained silent while Bush decimated our democracy--because she knew she had to be a player if she wanted to be the Democratic nominee.
Then, came Obama. Geez. I can only imagine how shattered she is. When you spent much of your life thinking, "I can put up with this shit, because I've got my eyes on the prize and someday this will all be worth it," and then the prize is taken away---everything you endured seems like it was for nothing.
As much as I detest the Clintons and their sell-out status--and the way they've lied, ruined lives and campaigned so viscously--I think their entire story is really tragic and so very sad.
When I look at those pictures of the young Clintons, and see them now--I see a glaring illustration of what has happened to our country and our government within the past 40 years. Innocence, a sense of decency and optimism---has all but died in our government and has been engulfed by greed, corporatism, corruption and distortions.
I really hope the Clintons find the peace that they need--and I hope our country does as well.
A smaller fire withing the larger, several agreeing with this poster.
The words they use and contorted beliefs they have to have to essentially excuse what is nothing more than a power-hungry couple are really funny.
Dual sparky primative, here's a little info for ya: The Clintons never sold out because they never bought in. They held their fingers up to the collective wind of the day and went with it. Just like with all you libs, there's no substance, there's no core beliefs, there's just what it takes to gain power and try to rule people lives via gov't intervention. Yes, I realize to you that constitutes "peace," but there's a lot of us who aren't interested in a bunch of disfunctional libs, who falsely believe themselves to be intelligent, trying to run people's lives, because you end up ruining people's lives instead.
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