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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
I trust you're aware that Christopher Hitchens' irrational hatred for the Clintons is legendary in political circles. It's up there with his penchant for white linen trousers and making fun of religious people.
In any case, I wasn't claiming that Clinton was a good guy. You claimed he was a "rube." That's nonsense. Bill Clinton's a very smart, well educated guy, with the sort of resume that relatively few people have. I doubt Hitchens claims anything different anyway.
George W. Bush, on the other hand (who, for the record, is in my opinion smarter than most people give him credit for being) has his picture in the dictionary next to the entry for "mediocrity." Without family connections, he never would have got into either Yale or Harvard. Both times he passed by the skin of his teeth. Not because he's dumb; he just wasn't interested in school, skirts and brews being more his thing at that stage of his life (and hey, I can kind of relate!).
But to say that he and Clinton are on the same intellectual plane is just delusional. That has nothing to do with whether you think Clinton is a good person, or was a good president--though he compares pretty favourably to GWB by any relevant benchmark.
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Ah fair enough, but as I said before, doesn't someone's intelligence encompass their morality as well? Bill Clinton has none.
And Hitchens' hatred of the Clintons isn't exactly irrational, his arguments, while polemic, are documented and researched. Clinton is a stupid scumbag. I don't care if he is a Rhodes scholar, was there any intellectual success to Clinton's presidency? Copying Reagan policy and bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical factories don't count.