Re: Pynchon's Presidents

"David Morris" <[email protected]> Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:25:42 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.culture.literature.thomas-pynchon
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Bush is a worse liar because he lies about IMPORTANT things.  Clinton only 
lied about inhaling and receiving blow jobs, stupid but very forgivable.

DM

>From: Mark Wright AIA <[email protected]>
>
>Howdy
>
>Clinton may have been a "liar", but he was *our* liar. If P's easy little 
>jest highlights anything, it is Clinton's obsession with remaining 
>"politically viable" by maintaining the consistent policy of interpersonal 
>and linguistic ambiguity that made him, for better AND worse, both a 
>magnificent politician and a really really shitty husband. Compare and 
>contrast with Bush II -- magnificent husband (so we are told) and (almost 
>certainly) a mendacious shit-stack of a politician. And he's not *my* 
>mendacious shit-stack, either...


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