Leave it to Clinton to say just the wrong thing... I love the way the Right Wing-Nut worded this.
Jim Goad does a hysterical take-down of Bill Clinton's four hour festival of auto-erotica, aka: "A Decade of Difference: A Concert Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation”. God bless that man -Goad, I mean - for siting thru four hours of that crap in order to report it to us...
Goad has some astute observations, which I'll excerpt later, but there is one line that Wet Willie uttered that, unfortunately, must be given greater scrutiny:
Nobody ever climbs any ladder alone.
Ah...actually, climbing a ladder anyway but alone is perilous and dumb, in a Three Stooges-type of way. Imagine climbing a tall ladder, then adding a safety inspector, a health care advisor, a few bureaucrats, and a "rung tax collector" from the IRS. You'd crash to the ground in a bloody heap before you made it halfway up. At which point Bill Clinton would tell you the problem is that you needed more help on that ladder. "It takes a Village", his wife would intone from the sideline, as Bill nods sagely....
One of the great truisms of The Foutainhead (a Rand classic that is getting overshadowed by Atlas Shrugged but is equally applicable in our day and age) is that people work better alone than they do in in groups. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, steadfastly refused to join any "design committee", and when examining the work of group-think, collaborative, projects, noted that all them men had done better work alone than they had been able to produce as a "team".
Which could be why our economy, and our American ideal, is struggling. To many carpetbaggers trying to get a piece of what they cannot produce, even if it is just some ancillary credit, or a undeserved rake off.
Maybe - in honor of Bill Clinton's wisdom - the Tea Party mantra should be "Get off my ladder"... Keep Reading
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