William Jefferson Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton, originally uploaded by Lindsay Beyerstein.

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Comments

[Noah]

Mr. President!

[Squidink]

What a cartoonish nose... He's so much fun to draw.

[mudkitty]

LB, as always, great portraiture.

[B-Money]

There should be a thought bubble above his head with him thinking..."Can't wait to get back to the White House and all those interns!"

[TheaLogie]

SqI, maybe, but besides the nose, he seems to have aged a lot better in the last seven years than some of his peers. Blair looked exceedingly haggard before he resigned the prime ministership. Bush, similarly, doesn't weather well.

[voxy]

it's the guilt.

AWESOME PHOTOS, lindsay. wow, you outdid yourself to the max.
Thanks for sharing.

[mudkitty]

BM - there's a bubble around your head, clearly.

[mike]

I wonder if he ever thinks of the million or so Iraqis who died during his and Gore's administration as a result of their illegal bombing and sanctions. I wonder if he ever thinks of the millions of black and brown people who were put into prison and disenfranchised (regularly raped and tortured) because of his vigorous support of the war on drugs, just about the same number of votes that would have kept Bush out of office. I wonder if he ever thinks of the hundreds of billions, maybe trillions, of dollars that working Americans lost because of the massive corruption during the dot-com days. Sometimes I wonder if he ever thinks at all...

[Lesley]

Mike, you're right about the Clinton administration but compared to Bush he's a saint. It's appalling isn't it?

[The Phantom]

Yes, Iraq in the 1990s should not have faced sanctions. But wait a minute, don't the opponents of the Iraq War say that "sanctions were working, Saddam was penned up"

Now mike says that not only should Iraq not have been attacked, it should not have been subject to sanctions.

Maybe we should have given them economic and military aid.

Very weak point.

On the war on drugs, you have what can be seen as a debatable point, one that I could, along with William F Buckley, agree on--there can be an incredibly strong case for liberalizing or legalizing any number of drugs.

But when you thrown in the Iraq comments, you lose any thinking, sentient person.

[B-Money]

Mudkitty, you are one uptight person. MEMO: Remove pole from ass, smile, have sense of humor! Jesus F'n Christ!

[Dock Miles]

>Mudkitty, you are one uptight person. MEMO: Remove pole from ass, smile, have sense of humor! Jesus F'n Christ!

What a weird person. I crack a small joke at his expense and he about blows a blood vessel.

But I first sensed this odd humor-and-irony-impaired outlook when somebody who calls himself "B-Money" posted, with a straight face, that he was like, you know, too classy to use the term "McJob" in conversation. It was to laugh, then and now.

And, as I live and breathe, Phantom has associated with an interesting libertarian point (eliminating quiver words) --

"You have a debatable point that I could agree on -- there can be an incredibly strong case for liberalizing or legalizing any number of drugs."

Now, I don't know what "liberalizing" drugs means -- think it might be "liberalizing drug-illegality laws" -- but the "legalizing" drugs part is clear.

So, I'm interested. What is that "incredibly strong case"?

[rob helpy-chalk]

Is it just me, or is Clinton starting to look like Ted Kennedy. Maybe they're just this type that all aging male democratic politicians come to resemble, Clinton, Kennedy, Tip O'Neil.