Sydney Blumen-idiot

In One gulp, and Bush was gone courtesy of, where else, The Guardian, clintonista Blumenthal shows ... well, nothing, really. Most particularly missing is any sense of humor in interpreting quotes from Bush and Rove to support his own lame agenda. Which, BTW, isn't really an agenda. It's more of an incessant, adolescent whine.

Somebody needs to adjust this man's medication. Then they need to let him know that as regards clinton, one library does not a legacy make. I think he cuts a rather sad figure, actually. ymmv

Offstage, beforehand, Rove and Bush had had their library tours. According to two eyewitnesses, Rove had shown keen interest in everything he saw, and asked questions, including about costs, obviously thinking about a future George W Bush library and legacy. "You're not such a scary guy," joked his guide. "Yes, I am," Rove replied. Walking away, he muttered deliberately and loudly: "I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ..." Thus he identified himself as more than the ruthless campaign tactician; he was also the invisible hand of power, pervasive and expansive, designing to alter the fundamental American compact.

Bush appeared distracted, and glanced repeatedly at his watch. When he stopped to gaze at the river, where secret service agents were stationed in boats, the guide said: "Usually, you might see some bass fishermen out there." Bush replied: "A submarine could take this place out."

Was the president warning of an al-Qaida submarine, sneaking undetected up the Mississippi, through the locks and dams of the Arkansas river, surfacing under the bridge to the 21st century to dispatch the Clinton library? Is that where Osama bin Laden is hiding?

Or was this a wishful paranoid fantasy of ubiquitous terrorism destroying Clinton's legacy with one blow? Or a projection of menace and messianism, with only Bush grasping the true danger, standing between submerged threat and civilisation? Perhaps it was simply his way of saying he wouldn't build his library near water.

Comments

[Jerry vbc]

What a bunch of drivel. This is not worthy of mention let alone publishing. The dems do everything they can to protet their person, but if the opposition happens to be in residence, anything done to protect the CIC is considered as overbound. I say, suck eggs those who think the CIC is not in danger and we take all precautions to prevent anything.

[Rhod]

Blumenthal is the most infantile, banal, spiteful and ridiculous figure in...journalism or Democratic Party politics (usually the same thing). There was almost certainly nepotism, undue influence or some other conspiring forces at work that elevated this second-rate fart to the low level celebrity status he has today.

Was Teddy at the library opening? If so, Blumey should have avoided water references, and in some dark and Freudian way, he chose to associate the destruction of "Clinton's legacy" with the unfortunate device of accomplishing it "with one blow". Blumenthal is not only a whinging little sissy, he's an idiot. Could anyone else have written such lurid and unconsidered dreck? No. Only Sidney.