All are human?

For some strange reason there are people who are still blaming Bill Clinton for the mess this country is experiencing in the Year of our Lord 2009. They hate the man with the passion of a rabid ferret.

And, for some strange reason there are people who can not get over the fact that George Bush is no longer president. Beating him up incessantly about his foibles and assorted faux pas and left-behind examples of Dubyaspeak isn't doing a thing to get the country out of the mess it's in.

American heroes, presidents and major political figures, have always had their time in the spotlight examined closely. Some quotes from history serve as a reminder that these men and women were just common folks like us.

As John Hancock shouted to a friend after the British was made aware of the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, "I didn't do anything wrong. Peer pressure made me sign the durn thing!"

Mahatma Ghandi to a British commander for losing control over India, "Get over it!"

Abraham Lincoln said during a walk around the White House with little, short, round whatzername, "People are blaming me for things I have not done yet are not praising me for the good deeds. Wow, what a bummer! Wanna go to the theater?"

As Herbert Hoover exclaimed as he exited the White House: "What? Me worry?"

Franklin Roosevelt reported said as he left the White House for the last time:




It’s a fact Clinton was heard to say in a stage whisper upon leaving the White House, "Except for the fat girl deal and lying under oath part, everything pretty much went okay, don't you think?"

Bush made mistakes, too. The fact that he made more than most living human beings (not to mention presidents) and didn't seem to understand that the presidency is like inertia: Things at rest stay at rest until a force is applied onup it and things in motion tend to stay in motion
until ....

When asked to sum up his presidency, Bush is quoted thusly, "Overall, except for the terrorists deal and the wars and baseball steroids and and mispronouncing 'nu-clur' and all that, it was ... oh, yeah, and, you know, the economic thing goes in there too ... a pretty good gig."

No one is going to change the Clinton-haters minds about the former two-term president.

Same with Bush. Even if the nation goes so far in the economic toilet that we have to call in Suisse RotoRooter for fiscal backup, Barack Obama will take the immediate heat because he has the political "hammer." Bush is gone ... Obama has the helm.

Hmmmm. Think about how easy it would have been for Bill post-presidency if he had just been slick enough to stick Bush with the fat girl fallout.


And, in other news:

-- New video game depicts virtual rape as the main theme.

-- The Bishop of London, England said losing your job is good life-lesson.

-- Thirteen-year-old father said he would raise his newborn son.

Those people who said the world would go to Hades if we elected Obama … could they have been right?