FROM WSJ
Notable & Quotable
Novelist Kurt Andersen in the current issue of New York magazine:
"When Bill Clinton was first elected, baby-boomers had just become an
absolute majority of working journalists, and among some of them simmered
an
envy-***-distrust of the first baby-boomer commander-in-chief. Somebody
our
age is president? Then, over the course of Bill Clinton's (bungled,
distasteful) presidency and Hillary Clinton's (bungled, distasteful)
campaign for the presidency, the couple have separately and together
become
incarnations of the most unattractive attributes of their generation's
elite - blind ambition cloaked in do-good self-righteousness, a sense of
entitlement, high-handed snobbiness ("I suppose I could have stayed home
and
baked cookies"), hedonism (Monica et al.), narcissism. As a poster couple
for people of a certain age and demographic, they have become a bit of an
embarrassment."
*******
And The Slickster and Her Thighness never were more than pretenders to any
throne...except the ones with a half moon on the door of the two-holers
out
back.
Dionysus
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