Edith Efron's Psycho-analysis of Clinton

On a scale of one to ten for writing talents, I'd rate Efron about a 9.7 and you about a three.

I would rather have Bill Clinton running the country from a whorehouse, shouting orders as he satisfied his sexual appetite, than have GW utter a single directive.

But that's just me.

As of now this is just a theory. The day after the dem convention, it might not be

gustavratzenhofer wrote:

I would rather have Bill Clinton running the country from a whorehouse, shouting orders as he satisfied his sexual appetite, than have GW utter a single directive.

But that's just me.

You may get your chance to vote for that in November.

I'd not want to have to bet this one but, if I had to, I'd bet that H. Clinton and not Kerry will be running in November.

Here's the rationale. The Clintons still have major kinds of legal problems hanging over them. Aside from the inviolate tradition which says that an incoming president does not create legal problems for his predacessor (which keeps us from having civil wars every four or eight years), Democrats apparently demanded and got some sort of a blanket amnesty for all members of the Clinton admin as their price for ceding power in 2000. Now, that deal is good so long as George W. Bush remains in office, but what happens then?

Even worse than having some other republican take over, there is the question of what happens if a Howard Dean or some other democrat, who has every bit as much reason to hate the Clintons as any republican, were to take over. Howard Dean could throw the Clintons to the wolves while shouting "See how evenhanded I am!"

Ideally, Hillary would rather wait until 08 to run but, from her perspective, that would amount to putting too much power into the hands of fate. Therefore, Clinton blackops have basically torpedoed all of the halfway viable candidates, leaving only the pathetic gigolo Kerry standing there as a sort of a place holder, to be allowed to run if the Clintons figure Hillary would have no chance at all, and to be brushed aside at the convention if they figure she does have any sort of a chance.

As of now this is just a theory. The day after the dem convention, it might not be.

Well, cos if I did, I would be hoist by me own petard, no?


I think ameteur psychoanalysis is pure **** - and I have major caveats re professional, too.


Own petards hurt.

I didn't mean to turn an 'analytic' eye to them, if that was what you thought I was saying.

Rather, I just meant that certain rhetorical styles and techniques, and the original piece quoted is a fine example, often tell us more about the writer than anything that writer has taken as a subject.

Nonetheless Efron's piece is a bit more than many could aspire to read and comprehend.

In his memoir, Mr. Clinton concedes he was voted out as governor after just one term because he tried to do too much too fast -- a mistake he thinks he repeated in his first 100 days in the White House

A small part of Clinton's incoherent description pertains to his doing "too much, too fast." The rest, if one strips away the murky verbiage, is an earnest description of Clinton's difficulty in thinking. His mind races, ideas rush in on him with great speed; he fails to distinguish between having an idea and taking an action, between thinking and doing; he gets lost in details, so he cannot retain his abstract purposes; and he has great difficulty in reaching conclusions or making decisions.