-Caveat Lector-
"Some days I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, in a foul humour," he
told
an audience earlier this month. "It has occurred to me really that every
one
of us has this little scale inside . . . on one side there's the light
forces
and on the other side there's the dark forces in our psyche.
"Life is a big struggle to try to keep things in proper balance," he added.
Considering Clinton's reluctance (and perhaps inability) discuss his shadow
side in the past, I find these comments disturbing. I don't see this as a
therapeutic breakthrough. Rather, this seems (IMHO) to be more of losing
control - losing the battle to the "dark forces." These comments are not a
good omen, again, IMHO.
Hilary
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> From: Bill Richer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [CTRL] Clinton's dark side emerges on golf course
> Date: Tuesday, October 19, 1999 7:29 PM
>
> -Caveat Lector-
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> Peace at any cost is a prelude to war!
>
> Clinton's dark side emerges on golf course
>
> FROM BEN MACINTYRE IN WASHINGTON
>
>
>
>
> A STRANGE, solitary figure could be seen on the Army and Navy Country
Club
> golf course outside Washington on Sunday night, whacking ball after ball
into
> the pitch darkness as the rain poured down.
> It was Bill Clinton, inadvertently offering the stark image of an
> increasingly isolated and frustrated President heading towards the end of
his
> second term, his temper rising and his power waning.
>
> Dusk was already gathering when he suddenly announced that he was going
to
> play golf, alone, and for two and a half hours he worked his way around
the
> sodden course, deserted save for his Secret Service detail and a handful
of
> damp journalists.
>
> "He was playing in the pitch dark," one reporter said. "He was swinging
and
> wildly hitting balls everywhere."
>
> Mr Clinton's obsession with golf is well known, but his eccentric solo
> session has inevitably invited speculation about his state of mind in the
> twilight of his presidency. "It was odd. It was strange," one White House
> official was quoted as saying.
>
> With just over a year of his last term remaining, Mr Clinton is having to
> cede the political spotlight to his would-be successor, Al Gore, and to
his
> wife, while his ambitions for his own legacy have become bogged down in
> partisan politics and bitter budget wrangling. Recently Mr Clinton has
taken
> to public bouts of introspection, and by his own admission the
presidential
> temper is starting to fray.
>
> "Some days I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, in a foul humour," he
told
> an audience earlier this month. "It has occurred to me really that every
one
> of us has this little scale inside . . . on one side there's the light
forces
> and on the other side there's the dark forces in our psyche.
>
> "Life is a big struggle to try to keep things in proper balance," he
added.
>
> Mr Clinton's darker side was on full display last week after the Senate
> rejected the treaty banning nuclear tests that he had planned as the
> centrepiece of his foreign policy.
>
> Mr Clinton lambasted Republican senators for what he called their
"reckless
> partisanship" and "isolationism". And the Senate is not alone in feeling
the
> rough edge of the presidential tongue.
>
> In the past few weeks he has been heard to lash out at his conservative
> enemies, unsympathetic media and even the FBI. Earlier this month, at a
White
> House picnic, one reporter for Investor's Daily found himself in a
slanging
> match with Mr Clinton, who then gave instructions that the journalist be
> banned from all such functions in the future.
>
> Mr Clinton's frustration was also evident recently when he reflected on
the
> stalled peace process in Northern Ireland and compared the opposing sides
in
> the conflict to drunks addicted to violence.
>
> The President's periodic bursts of ill humour may be partly attributable
to
> disappointment with the campaign being run by his Vice-President, whose
> election Mr Clinton sees as crucial to preserving his own place in
history.
>
> He has been vociferous in his support of Mr Gore, but last weekend the
> front-runner for the Democratic nomination clearly hinted that he might
forgo
> Mr Clinton's help. Many voters see Mr Gore as tainted by the scandals of
the
> Clinton presidency.
>
> The President is also said to be finding it hard to adjust to playing
second
> fiddle to the political ambitions of Hillary Clinton. While he jokes
about
> joining the "Senate spouses club", associates say he feels more than a
twinge
> of envy that his political career is winding down, unglamorously, at a
moment
> when hers may just be taking off.
>
> Some associates say Mr Clinton is still determined to leave an imprint
from
> his final year in office and is gearing up for a battle over spending
with
> Republicans in Congress. "He's been in great spirits and he has lots of
> fight," Terence McAuliffe, a Democratic fund-raiser and Clinton
confidant,
> told The Washington Post.
>
> But Mr Clinton's public comments have taken on a mournful, valedictory
tone,
> and his introductions to White House visitors now tend to start with the
> formula "as our time here draws to a close".
>
> On a recent trip to New York a park guide joked that the President could
> always get a job with the National Park Service. "I can work cheap, I've
got
> a good pension," Mr Clinton replied.
>
> But White House insiders say that for all the jocularity, the future is
> weighing heavily on his mind.
>
> But the only thing that Mr Clinton has stated with absolute certainty
about
> his plans after leaving the White House is that they will involve a large
> amount of golf.
>
> When he climbed, dripping, into his limousine after Sunday's impromptu
and
> solitary round of golf, his aides declined to say what he had scored.
Perhaps
> he was not even counting.
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