Citizen Clinton
Yesterday I was so busy making obsessive corrections of minor source-code errors that I didn't read the papers until 2AM--and nothing in them upset me much. This morning, though, I read Time's cover story, TIME Magazine Citizen Clinton, and sent this to
letters@time.com:
The "noxious '90's," "for which not many people are nostalgic"?—this is a clear example of getting carried away by one's own powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90's. But I suppose we don't count...we're in the LA ghetto, and probably not the sort of people Mr. Klein talks to.
His last paragraph seems to say that Clinton made a big mistake in being "so candid about his demons." Don't we all have our demons, and isn't the way we choose to confront them a measure of our character?
But Klein demands punishment for Clinton's candor (read "weakness"); his problem is how to punish a man who can't run for President again. Solution: deny him a big funeral.
I've got news for you, Mr. Klein. When Bill Clinton dies the streets of Washington, D.C. will be thronged with weeping, and praying, mourners. But it won't be like Reagan's funeral procession. Many of those mourners will be people who actually live in Washington, D.C.
Black people.
XX, kindergarten teacher
XXX etc.
letters@time.com:
The "noxious '90's," "for which not many people are nostalgic"?—this is a clear example of getting carried away by one's own powers of alliteration. Everybody I know is nostalgic for the '90's. But I suppose we don't count...we're in the LA ghetto, and probably not the sort of people Mr. Klein talks to.
His last paragraph seems to say that Clinton made a big mistake in being "so candid about his demons." Don't we all have our demons, and isn't the way we choose to confront them a measure of our character?
But Klein demands punishment for Clinton's candor (read "weakness"); his problem is how to punish a man who can't run for President again. Solution: deny him a big funeral.
I've got news for you, Mr. Klein. When Bill Clinton dies the streets of Washington, D.C. will be thronged with weeping, and praying, mourners. But it won't be like Reagan's funeral procession. Many of those mourners will be people who actually live in Washington, D.C.
Black people.
XX, kindergarten teacher
XXX etc.
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