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doodahdaze 04/18/2010 08:25 AM Report
Oh I must read this. I've always wondered 'how' virtue died.
REMant 04/14/2010 11:39 AM Report
Yes, the title is rather overdone. It might have been The Death of American Hypocrisy, perhaps. Seems like a university press book if there ever was one. At the time I thought Clinton's choice of women abysmal, but the only thing that was unforgivable was that Lewinsky was an employee, tho I did not think it an impeachable offense, nor lying or equivocating about it in the face of a witch-hunt, despite being a stupid thing to do. The Letterman approach seems more advisable. I did not care much about the rest, nor the Whitewater business tho I still think there's something sleazy about all of it. We have seen a lot of the same kind of thing since and a good amount before, a fair share of it from Republicans. We often talk about American success stories in the Clinton context, but that's not in my view quite true. The real American success story is the kind of career that routinely results in foreign service officers and investment bankers. Politicians and multi-billionaires almost invariably come from lower rungs of society, and end up in quite different locations, of course, but they are hardly common enough to be considered in the Horatio Alger terms the idea of success implies. (In fact, neither do the Alger protagonists, themselves.) I would hardly consider, for instance, the Kennedy family an American success story. That others may is perhaps a cogent remark on the changes in our society. Too, it has been a commonplace observation for at least two centuries that what is gained by the first generation is lost by the third, and that appears to be true of the Kennedy's as well. Seventy-five years of fame, I guess you could say. BTW, paranoid ppl occupy parallel universes, as well, and Nixon, we know, made his own comeback.