J.R. Dunn notes in American Thinker that the Democratic ex Presidents do not just go quietly into the night. They continue to involve themselves in a a large often embarassing way. It is as if they can not accept the position of being out of the spot light, of being out of power. Rebublican ex presidents by comparison have remained quietly removed from any controversial political stands. The article, The Democrats’ Ex-Presidents.

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The need for attention and adulation among former Democratic leaders is embarrassing in its nakedness. In almost no other field, in politics or out, can such behavior be found. Only the entertainment world offers a comparable level of pathology.

To this day, he (Carter) continues embracing killers, repeating the process endlessly as if, eventually, it’ll come out the way he pictures it in his heart of hearts, in some impossible lion-and-lamb reconciliation. But it always ends otherwise, in disgrace for himself and misery for third parties. Yet he cannot see it.

Gore has none of Carter’s taste for criminals, and his campaign has done considerably less harm to date than Carter’s. But in the long run it may well be even more dangerous. Like all Greens, Gore is an authoritarian, his prescriptions having the aura of the people’s block committee and the reeducation camp. So it’s just as well that the warming thesis has run into cold facts recently. If we are in truth moving into a “quiet sun” period — a period of dramatically reduced solar activity (as indications suggest we are), then every last puff of CO2 on earth will do nothing to stop the mercury from dropping like a stone. It’ll be interesting to see how Gore deals with this.

Bill Clinton is probably the simplest case of the three, and at the same time the most annoying. Bill simply likes attention — it doesn’t matter where it comes from or how it’s expressed. A twenty-year-old intern, crooked businessmen, the Emperor of Antarctica — it’s pretty much the same. Those of us who believe that liberalism infantilizes its adherents will find a useful exhibit in Bill Clinton.

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