Bill Clinton Interview and the Mid Term Elections

Dick Morris, Bill Clinton’s Karl Rove, states the following, ‘ But beyond noting the ex-president’s non-presidential style, it is important to answer his distortions and misrepresentations. His self-justifications constitute a mangling of the truth which only someone who once quibbled about what the “definition of ‘is’ is” could perform. ’

The Bill Clinton Interview flare up still in the news, an Opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times by Andrew Klavan is interesting, he has the stated the following on Bill Clinton, ‘ He thinks reality itself is being wrestled away from him, that he can wrestle it back and mold it into the shape he wants it to have. ‘

A very interesting article by John McIntyre, President and co-founder of RealClearPolitics on the Mid Term Elections, McIntyre has written the following, ‘ Dem pick-up of four seats which would leave them short of the six they need, and I suspect they would fall short in the House as well, picking up something like 9-12 seats.

Tony Blair and the Labour Conference

Well today was Tony Blair’s final speech as Party Leader at a Labour Conference. As of the speech, it was typical Labour spin; full of what New Labour has done in the Public Sector. As a Teacher Views can state a judgement on how New Labour has affected the education field. As a Teacher Views has been to the worse of bog standard Schools, buildings falling down, bad teachers, no supplies for teaching and the feeling one is in a war zone. On the other hand Views has been to the best of the PFI Schools, new buildings, money spent on supplies, good teachers etc. The problem that New Labour has not dealt with is although you can spend all the money in the world, if the teachers have no authority in the classroom, money spent is worthless.

On the health service, Views has to give Labour high marks, Views has seen the Health Service close up, in the early mid 1990s, going in to Hospital was not looked at by Views as the best option but having seen the Health Service doing an excellent job at the start of the 21st Century. In the 1990s a long stay in Hospital was even more uncomfortable even without the ill health, now a long stay in Hospital is made more bearable by the fact that while in Hospital you can have access to your own TV, this might sound like something quite small but if one is ill, it helps to have something normal, and nearly all watch TV. Also patients have access to a telephone, so no march down to the telephone or waiting for a phone to be bought to you, access at any time to family helps in the creation of normality.

Thus we come to Foreign Policy, the Prime Minister defended his policy on Afghanistan and Iraq, as Views supports both military actions it was interesting more to see how Labour reacted to this section of speech, more polite applause, not earth shattering support. On Terrorism, Views supports the 90-day keeping of suspects and hopes either Tony Blair or Gordon Brown brings the bill back to the House of Commons.

On the SKY news coverage, there was a box with a live view of Gordon Brown, dour, miserable, come to mind. Views can recall about two smiles and one was when Tony Blair praised Gordon Brown.

Views shall miss Tony Blair, after Lady Thatcher the best Conservative Prime Minister the country has had, what will Gordon the Dour be when he shall became PM.