21st century
It doesn’t seem strange, for instance, to learn that Bill Clinton’s main cocern these days is with his place in history, his legacy, his permanent image in highschool textbooks 100 years from now. He has done his work, he feels, and now is the time to secure his place on a pedestal in the pantheon of Greaat American Presidents, along with Lincoln and Coolidge and Kennedy. And why not? George Bush had that problem, and so did Richard Nixon. Nobody needs to go down in history like that. Only a criminal frak would want to be rembered as a Crook or a Dupe or a Creature of some treacherous monster like J. Edgar Hoover… But those risks come with the terriotory when you finally move into the White House. They will write something- many things, in fact: books, movies, legends, and maybe even filthy jokes about back-stabing and sodomy that will follow you all the way to the grave. Look at Nixon, look at Reagan, or even JFK. History has never been gentle in its judgements on bedrock degenerates- but it is also true that some degenerates are treated more gently others, and that is what worries Bill Clinton. He is liked, but not well liked, and that is a very fragile base to maintain for another two and a half years. Voters like him now because they believe he has made them richer- and they will probably have voted him again in 2000 if it wasn’t for the 2-term rule and the sex scandal. Let’s just take a moment and thank god that John Kerry wasn’t elected last year. Hideous scandals involving rich perverts, depraved children, and degenerate Hollywood whores looking for publicity are so common here as to be politically tolerable and even stylish.