OUR SMARTEST PRESIDENT? :

Clinton Says Leaders' Obstinacy Is Harming Mideast's Children (REUTERS, April 13, 2002)

"The bullheaded leaders' inability to make peace is resulting in the slaughter of their young people," Mr. Clinton said, noting that half the 2,000 people killed in the last 19 months of violence were children.

How many profiles of Bill Clinton have you read that have as their second sentence : "Despite which, he is universally acknowledged to be one of our smartest presidents, even a political genius"?

Yet he made a total hash out of the easiest eight year period to be president in American history and every time he opens his mouth something stupid comes out. How smart can the guy be?

So here we have our most faithful ally, Israel, about to be plunged into a war of national survival and the Palestinians, whose national aspirations Bill Clinton has always claimed to share, being led like lambs to the slaughter by Yasir Arafat, and what does the genius have to say? It's bad for the kids.

Could the man be any more trivial?

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 13, 2002 10:47 AM