Clinton impeachment "badge of honor"

Em . . . no kidding. These were Clinton's words. Check it out at myway.

Have you ever wondered how the sophists reasoned in the time of Socrates, four centuries before Christ? Socrates himself describes them in Plato's dialogue, The Apology. The sophists were itinerant teachers of the art of rhetoric or debate, who, in exchange for money, could teach you "to take the worse side of an argument and make it appear the better," y'know, so you could "get ahead." Almost like contemporary lawyers, except that the sophist wouldn't represent you in court, but rather tell you how to represent yourself.

Anyway, Clinton's reasoning is a piece of sophistry that would garner the admiration of Parmenides, the master of ancient sophists. It's amazing that Clinton can keep his composure while saying some of these things, that he just doesn't double over in convulsions of hysterical laughter at the insanity of his own words. He must practice in front of a mirror or something. In his "60 Minutes" interview with Dan Rather on CBS, the consummate spinmaster did his best to pass off the vices that provoked Congressional impeachment proceedings against him as splendid virtues:

"I stood up to it and beat it back," Clinton says of the impeachment process, which he describes as "an abuse of power." "The whole battle was a badge of honor. I don't see it as a stain, because it was illegitimate."

Clinton has just come out with his memoir, My Life, and is also the subject of a new documentary film, The Hunting of the President, which portrays him as the target of a political smear campaign by its filmmakers Harry Thomason and Nickolas Perry. Thomason is a close friend of Clinton's.

Democracies tend to get the presidents they deserve. If this man could be elected to the Whitehouse, so could John Kerry. CAVEAT SUFFRAGATOR! ("Let the voter beware!")