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A pretty great quote from someone on the internet. Funny too:

“In Bush we do not have an intellectual who sets dinner companions atwitter on the Left Bank and Islington; but, and putting it plainly, we have someone who is not a bullshiter (like his predecessor, who was an unusually good one). He walks the walk. And people know it (I have a friend who was recently deep in the Amazon. An Indian, in a primitive and remote hamlet, said he was scared of Bush’s electoral victory. Why? Because he really means what he says came the response, ie more wars could be in the offing the Latin American, lefist-infused thinking went). Chuckle at my feverish cheerleading in trotting out such vignettes. But the fact is that when a typical President might have said something like “I call on the great and proud nation of Egypt to bla bla” the typical reaction in Cairene ministries would have been to ignore the prattle deeming it was meant mostly for domestic consumption. Not this time; as Mubarak felt compelled to start pushing forward real reforms. Again, Bush is judged to really mean it.”

It’s true. And this is why Clinton’s chronic lying on all issues left and right was, I think, ultimately dangerous for the country. Maybe all Presidents are liars, but one that does nothing but lie in issues big and small, private and public, begs to not be taken seriously. And no one took Clinton seriously. And history will show that. He was a celebrity. Nothing more.

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