CURRENT WISDOM
c u R R e n T W I s d o M new york Review of books In the goody-goody bipartisan pages of the Big Apple’s Review of Books a sadder and wiser Mr. Michael Tomasky, after years of heaving...
...True, I hated her voting for Random House A Random House press release for The Teapot Dome Scandal, the latest study of the Harding administration’s naughtiest moment, brings Warren Harding’s diableries right into the present Bush White House— lest we ever forget...
...Liberals and Democrats now understand much more plainly the nature of the fight they’re in...
...That news seemed to clinch the picture’s meaning as part of Beavoir’s mystique (just as the reverse mystique for Henry Miller was that all of his bilingual canoodling with Anais Nin took place in Clichy): this is the kind of thing that happens to a Frenchwoman in Chicago when her boyfriend is a blue-collar writer and everyone drinks bourbon and leaves the bathroom door open...
...But maybe she was trying to be a politician...
...The Teapot Dome Scandal chronicles how the petroleum industry initially gained political influence and access in Washington through influence peddling, cronyism, and under the table payoffs...
...february 13, 2008) supports were invited to sit on Dick Cheney’s “Energy Task Force” and draw up a blueprint for the country’s energy policy...
...january 6, 2008) new Republic Ageless Miss Erica Jong makes a drastic recommendation to Hillary on how she might set right her floundering campaign: Women are always in the wrong— particularly in politics...
...january 28, 2008) new york Times The Episodic Apologists on the editorial board of the gently decaying Times endorse Hillary as Demo cratic presidential nominee on January 25, 2008—apparently forgetting their earlier appraisal of her shortly after she and the Boy President absconded from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2001: As Democrats look ahead to the primaries in the biggest states on Feb...
...Anyway, if she had a penis, nobody would have cared...
...The Harding administration was so top heavy with oil interests that his senior most officials were known as “the oil cabinet...
...At age 85, I won’t be around to witness the completion of the difficult rebuilding of our sorely dam aged country, but I’d like to hold on long enough to see the healing begin...
...In the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, oil and gas interest contributed a combined total of about $4 million to George W. Bush and $55 million to members of Congress...
...I think she relates a lot to young people...
...All her life...
...november 22, 2007) The nation Miss Patricia J. Williams, whose regular column in the venerable Nation is aptly titled “Diary of a Mad Law Professor,” beholds the world as she sees it from her endowed barstool at the far end of the bar—yet another example of the Hangover Theory of History: There’s a picture floating around the Internet of President Bush weeping at a memorial service...
...Hearing her talk about the presidency, her policies and answers for America’s big problems, we are hugely impressed by the depth of her knowledge, by the force of her intellect and by the breadth of, yes, her experience...
...january 2, 2008) brattleboro (Vt...
...I find her real...
...january 28, 2008) Washington Post More idiotic bilge from the Hon...
...Our culture is sexist, and we don’t even see it...
...My heart goes out to her...
...In the 1920 presidential campaign, leading oil barons literally bought the nomination for Warren Harding and secretly funded most of his campaign spending...
...It’s quite a rear...
...George McGovern at the end of his most recent call for a presidential impeachment, that being the impeachment of President George W. Bush, who simply would not leave his interns alone while Osama bin c u R R e n T W I s d o M Laden was confecting weapons of mass destruction in an aspirin factory halfway around the world: I believe we have a chance to heal the wounds the nation has suffered in the opening decade of the 21st century...
...So Clinton has run a gauntlet...
...Women are attacked whenever we go public...
...But the nakedness of the modern right’s drive to political power and of the Bush administration’s politicization of so many aspects of governance and civic life has, paradoxically, given us one thing to be grateful for...
...Clinton sometimes overstates the importance of résum...
...After the 2000 election, Bush’s biggest petroleum M a R c H 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 8 1 (january 2008) Today (nbc) Miss Meredith Vieira, co-host of this famous matutinal TV salon, reports back to her audience after interviewing the ever-confident Hillary Rodham Clinton the day Hillary’s new supply of anti-perspirants came in from Death Valley: While her critics assail Clinton as overly calculating, up close the Senator and former First Lady is natural, confident and warm...
...To this day the Vice President has refused to reveal who participated on that task force or what was discussed...
...And while that was going on the President of the country was canoodling with a former model...
...I admire her tenacity, her grit, and her courage...
...One long tear streaks his cheek, and his thin lips are pressed together hard, as though trying to flatten a nickel...
...5, The Times’s editorial board strongly recommends that they select Hillary Clinton as their nominee for the 2008 presidential election...
...Gloria Steinem said, “We’ll do anything not to elect a woman...
...I do not find her an automaton...
...the Iraq war resolution and voting for that creepy Iran resolution...
...There has never been a day in my adult life when I would not have sacrificed that life to save the United States from genuine danger, such as the ones we faced when I served as a bomber pilot in World War II...
...She has a daughter, you know, who’s young, so I think she really connects to young people...
...Starting with Vice President Dick Cheney, former CEO of the global oil company, Halliburton, Big Oil has been so pervasive in the White House that the Bush presidency has been called “the oil and gas administration...
...This recovery may take a generation and will depend on the election of a series of rational presidents and Congresses...
...select board Ominous news: the citizenry of progressive Brattleboro take the same lonely road that the late Jefferson Davis took in 1861: Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution, and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that the Brattle boro Police, pursuant to the above-mentioned indict ments, arrest and detain George Bush and Richard Cheney in Brattleboro if they are not duly impeached, and prosecute or extradite them to other authorities that may reasonably contend to prosecute them...
...february 11, 2001) new yorker Twenty-two years after her existentialist expiry, the callipygian Simone de Beavoir sets off sparks in the heaving bosom of young Adam Gopnik, New Yorker man about town: Earlier this month, France was disrupted by the image of a woman both sexually alive and politically relevant—defiant and proud and threat ening...
...Apparently this captures what it means to be ‘presidential’ at a time when the disastrous Bush presidency has left our economy ruined, our international reputation a shambles, NASA in the hands of people who don’t believe 8 0 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R M a R c H 2 0 0 8 global warming is a threat, our soldiers mired in a ‘pre-emptive’ war, the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg codes violated, the Justice Department gutted...
...Think of Eleanor Roosevelt, Bella Abzug— and Hillary Clinton...
...It’s quite a photograph...
...From Wellesley student to Yale student to lawyer to governor’s wife to First Lady to senator to presidential candidate...
...We must be a great nation because from time to time, we make gigantic blunders, but so far, we have survived and recovered...
...The picture was taken in 1950 by, of all people, an American—the photographer Art Shay—in, of all places, Chicago, where Beavoir was canoodling bilingually with Nelson Algren...
...january 25, 2008...
...january 25, 2008) And here is the editorial board’s earlier appraisal of their present choice for the White House in an indignant editorial of 2001: Perhaps we can never understand the process by which a departing president and his wife come to put sofas and flatware ahead of the acute sense of propriety that ought to go with high office...
...The picture in question was a photograph, published on the cover of Le Nouvel Observateur, the center-left newsweekly, of Simone de Beavoir, philosopher and feminist, seen tout ensemble, and from the rear...
...Here’s how the events of more than 80 years ago stack up against those of today...
...Michael Tomasky, after years of heaving bouquets to his conservative counterparts and heaping encomiums on them, dons body armor for the postBush bloodbath: We can regret, as it is customary to do, the loss of civility in political discourse...
...As a reward for their largesse in the 1920 elections, the leading oil chieftains of the day met secretly with Harding officials, notably Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, to formulate an energy policy that would be favorable to their interests...
...I’ve run that gauntlet on a much smaller scale—and I don’t even want to live in the White House...
...I get it...
...c u R R e n T W I s d o M new york Review of books In the goody-goody bipartisan pages of the Big Apple’s Review of Books a sadder and wiser Mr...
Vol. 41 • March 2008 • No. 2
