The vultures are picking his bones. Bob Herbert, Salon, Barney Frank, Joe
Biden, Lannie Davis ... they've all finally thrown Bill over the side. In
the Wall Street Journal Hamilton Jordan stigmatized Bill and Hillary as "the
First Grifters," the term used for scam artists preying on the poor and
desperate in the Depression of the 1930s. "The Clintons," Jordan sneered,
"are not a couple, but a business partnership, not based on love or even
greed, but on shared ambitions. Everywhere they go, they leave a trail of
disappointed, disillusioned friends and staff members to clean up after
them." Jordan contrasted the elevated moral tone of the Carter White House
against the Augean filth of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Clinton time.
If he, Jordan, had recommended something like the Rich pardon, "Carter
would have thrown me out of the Oval Office and probably fired me on the
spot." As for Clinton's hubris after Lewinsky-gate, "If a president can get
caught having sex in the Oval Office with an intern and commit perjury about
it to a federal grand jury, and still get away with it, what could possibly
stop him?"