Our most laughable president ever

Five years ago today, January 26, 1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky."

Except for how it reflects on our nation to the world, Bill Clinton set the record for funniest president ever. By funniest, I mean the most ripe and rewarding object of ridicule and contempt. Amazon will offer you a package deal on buying video of the Clinton grand jury testimony packaged with Saturday Night Live - The Best of the Clinton Scandal.

This one classic finger waving moment of public performance largely already has come to stand as the epitome and the essence of his presidency: lack of any kind of integrity, petty lying to any and all, unbelievably tawdry self-indulgence with no regard to the consequences for anyone else above all other values. Beyond the content of his policies, the man was a disgrace to the office. You have to laugh at his total disgrace.

Yet the American public elected him. Twice.

So who should I laugh at the hardest?

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  • 1 - Rodney Welch

    Jan 27, 2003 at 4:10 pm

    So who should you laugh at the hardest?

    How about twice-elected Richard "I am not a crook" Nixon?


  • 2 - cjones

    Jan 27, 2003 at 5:30 pm

    So what the guy slept around. I would rather have money pouring out of my pockets and peace across the land under a president who sleeps around than live to live poor, suffering from constant anxiety under an emotional psycopathic president who has a suicide pack with the elite of this world. The fact that you feel his sexual promiscuity outweighed the countries prosperity shows YOU are the joke, not Clinton.

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