During the 90s the GOP came up with the cruel narrative that theirs was just a marriage of convenience where they didn't really even love each other: there were predictions that they'd divorce as soon as Bill's term in office was up.
You know, they were allegedly the product of the flower children of the 60s who no longer were capable of love and marriage as they were too selfishly ambitions and individualistic.
The conservatives said any number of things about Bill Clinton that to me would have given him license to give them all a collective punch in the nose-no jury would have convicted him if I were on it.
However, there is nothing lower than when the claimed he didn't love his wife. I mean is there any worse insult of a man?
Yet, what time has shown is far from the Clinton's having a 'marriage of mere convenience-their marriage has proven to be uniquely successful-as opposed to Clinton's big 90s era adversary, Newt Gingrich who is on his 3rd marriage to an even younger model. Here is a man who served his wife divorce papers while she had cancer.
Newt's marriages are much more like the Clinton's were supposed to be, ironically. Here in post-millennium America, the Clintons are that rarest of rare bird: an actually successful marriage where the 2 actually love each other. How is this so?
I will argue is that what makes the Clinton's marriage work where so many fail is that they are linked by more than just temporary sexual infatuation but rather a soaring idealism. This is what makes them different.
Most couples past the first pangs of lust have little left. Often once they are married with kids they discover they are strangers. What Bill and Hillary always had was a marriage of not just mutual attraction but also of a meeting of intellects and mutual commitment to an ideal.
This is what's given them longevity. If Bill had married a typical woman who is at best uninterested and at worse repulsed by politics he probably would have been divorced maybe thrice over like Newt.
Now with her-hopefully successful-run they too will like William F. Buckley once did will be able to speak of seeing 'a dream walking.'
http://www.amazon.com/Walking-American-Conservative-Thought-Twentieth/dp/0672512408/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431276534&sr=1-1&keywords=william+f+buckley+dream+walking
What's more, their daughter seems to at least somewhat share their idealism. How about a Chelsea Clinton in 20 years?!
You know, they were allegedly the product of the flower children of the 60s who no longer were capable of love and marriage as they were too selfishly ambitions and individualistic.
The conservatives said any number of things about Bill Clinton that to me would have given him license to give them all a collective punch in the nose-no jury would have convicted him if I were on it.
However, there is nothing lower than when the claimed he didn't love his wife. I mean is there any worse insult of a man?
Yet, what time has shown is far from the Clinton's having a 'marriage of mere convenience-their marriage has proven to be uniquely successful-as opposed to Clinton's big 90s era adversary, Newt Gingrich who is on his 3rd marriage to an even younger model. Here is a man who served his wife divorce papers while she had cancer.
Newt's marriages are much more like the Clinton's were supposed to be, ironically. Here in post-millennium America, the Clintons are that rarest of rare bird: an actually successful marriage where the 2 actually love each other. How is this so?
I will argue is that what makes the Clinton's marriage work where so many fail is that they are linked by more than just temporary sexual infatuation but rather a soaring idealism. This is what makes them different.
Most couples past the first pangs of lust have little left. Often once they are married with kids they discover they are strangers. What Bill and Hillary always had was a marriage of not just mutual attraction but also of a meeting of intellects and mutual commitment to an ideal.
This is what's given them longevity. If Bill had married a typical woman who is at best uninterested and at worse repulsed by politics he probably would have been divorced maybe thrice over like Newt.
Now with her-hopefully successful-run they too will like William F. Buckley once did will be able to speak of seeing 'a dream walking.'
http://www.amazon.com/Walking-American-Conservative-Thought-Twentieth/dp/0672512408/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431276534&sr=1-1&keywords=william+f+buckley+dream+walking
What's more, their daughter seems to at least somewhat share their idealism. How about a Chelsea Clinton in 20 years?!
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