Bill Clinton, Hermit
If the 42nd POTUS wasn't such an incorrigible skunk, you could almost feel sorry for him:
Fewer visitors than expected have dropped by the much-ballyhooed, $165 million Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, since its November gala opening, but one VIP has been trying to make up for that: President Clinton himself.
"I understand he's here regularly," says Todd Scholl, director of marketing for Little Rock's Peabody Hotel.
And what does the former president do?
"That's a good question," says Mr. Scholl.
Wow, that sounds a lot like my junior high school social life. Only without the $165 million presidential library.
Mr. Clinton has been entertaining old friends in the museum's two-bedroom penthouse apartment, overlooking the Arkansas River.
Oh, I'll just bet he has....
The apartment is also known as the "Executive Suite," and Mr. Clinton plans to spend an average of one week each month there. He used to bunk at his mother-in-law's condo before getting the new pad that his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, has not visited since November.
So does this mean that the Clinton Presidential Library is, in essence, a $165 million couch? Cripes, mine only cost me a grand.
Hey, I did say "almost" feel sorry for him. I guess "Executive Suite" is more of an ego wank than "Paula Jones Memorial Whoopie Nook."
Psyches like Bill Clinton's are what make me so thankful that I didn't choose psychiatry as a profession. But Captain Ed takes a stab at it:
Clinton's attachment to his monument seems more than a little self-obsessive and somewhat pathetic. If the library is meant to represent his presidential career, he's giving the impression that the entire enterprise was less substantial as a means of directing policy than as personal therapy of narcissism. All politicians have that to some degree, but most don't cling to it the way Clinton has after his terms expired. Perhaps his friends should entertain the notion of an intervention to help him break his self-addiction.
Assuming that he has any friends. Real ones, I mean. The whole tone of this article seems to suggest that genuine "Friends of Bill" are in short supply.
But then if they really want to make him happy, they'll bump up the orgy schedule and make sure that the cleaning staff keeps up with the soiled bedclothes and doobie burns on the curtains and furniture.
It'd be the least they could do.
Fewer visitors than expected have dropped by the much-ballyhooed, $165 million Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas, since its November gala opening, but one VIP has been trying to make up for that: President Clinton himself.
"I understand he's here regularly," says Todd Scholl, director of marketing for Little Rock's Peabody Hotel.
And what does the former president do?
"That's a good question," says Mr. Scholl.
Masturbate a lot?
Sorry....
The former president recently showed up unannounced at a private reception at the library and has become so ubiquitous that a guest at another event this week approached Skip Rutherford, president of the William J. Clinton Foundation, and asked, "Is Bill here tonight?"Wow, that sounds a lot like my junior high school social life. Only without the $165 million presidential library.
Mr. Clinton has been entertaining old friends in the museum's two-bedroom penthouse apartment, overlooking the Arkansas River.
Oh, I'll just bet he has....
The apartment is also known as the "Executive Suite," and Mr. Clinton plans to spend an average of one week each month there. He used to bunk at his mother-in-law's condo before getting the new pad that his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat, has not visited since November.
So does this mean that the Clinton Presidential Library is, in essence, a $165 million couch? Cripes, mine only cost me a grand.
Hey, I did say "almost" feel sorry for him. I guess "Executive Suite" is more of an ego wank than "Paula Jones Memorial Whoopie Nook."
Psyches like Bill Clinton's are what make me so thankful that I didn't choose psychiatry as a profession. But Captain Ed takes a stab at it:
Clinton's attachment to his monument seems more than a little self-obsessive and somewhat pathetic. If the library is meant to represent his presidential career, he's giving the impression that the entire enterprise was less substantial as a means of directing policy than as personal therapy of narcissism. All politicians have that to some degree, but most don't cling to it the way Clinton has after his terms expired. Perhaps his friends should entertain the notion of an intervention to help him break his self-addiction.
Assuming that he has any friends. Real ones, I mean. The whole tone of this article seems to suggest that genuine "Friends of Bill" are in short supply.
But then if they really want to make him happy, they'll bump up the orgy schedule and make sure that the cleaning staff keeps up with the soiled bedclothes and doobie burns on the curtains and furniture.
It'd be the least they could do.
posted by JASmius at 10:47 AM
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